The food industry is challenged to meet rising consumer demands for quality and variety. We work closely with our food and beverage customers around the world to provide gas-related solutions to improve their product quality, lower their production costs and increase their competitive edge.
Beer, soft drinks and sparkling water have been adding zest to our lives for years, and gas technology has played a key role in their development and production. The beverage industry uses gases in many ways - you’ll find gas has had an influence everywhere from the large bottling plants where the drink is produced to the bars and restaurants where it is consumed.
We provide technical support and innovative solutions for the processing and packaging of baked, dairy, poultry, red meat, seafood, fruit, vegetables and prepared food products.
We offer:
- Ingredient preparation – cryogenic crystallisation for the instant production of powder from liquid fat-based ingredients for bakery, dairy and confectionery.
- Mixing, blending, conveying and tumbling:
- Bottom injection systems – for rapid chilling during mixing and blending operations with uniform temperature distribution and batch-to-batch consistency.
- Snow horns – for precise, high-performance, processing of perishables.
- Carbon dioxide and nitrogen-chilled vacuum tumbling systems - to reduce processing time and improve product quality.
- Controlled atmosphere stunning – for poultry and bigs.
- Freezing and cooling – products and solutions for food, premises and transportation including:
- Gases – bulk nitrogen and carbon dioxide for cryogenic freezing.
- Refrigerants – a wide range of environmentally-friendly and traditional refrigerants for mechanical refrigeration.
- Equipment – freezers, chillers, temperature control systems and food equipment.
- Packaging – total food and beverage packaging solutions including:
- Gases – bulk and compressed nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen and mixtures for modified atmosphere packaging (MAP).
- Food storage gases and gas mixtures for packaging, fumigation, sterilisation and pest control.
- Laser gases and equipment for marking “best before” dates on metal cans.
- Beverage grade bulk gases and packaging systems.
- Beverage grade compressed and bulk gases, equipment and solutions.
We also offer for industrial facilities:
- Welding gases and equipment.
- Oxygen for water treatment.
- Instrument calibration gases – scientific mixtures and high purity gases.
- Laser gases and equipment for marking “best before” dates on metal cans.