Engineering R&D: MAP for HPP  May 3, 2012 / Print / Reprints / /
Text Size+  Competition is proving to be a powerful driver for
innovation and expanded possibilities for high-pressure
processing (HPP) of solid and liquid foods. Flow Technologies
was the only supplier of HPP presses throughout the technology’s
first decade of commercial food applications, but after Flow
spun off the food unit as Avure Technologies in the early 2000s,
at least three additional HPP suppliers have joined the fray.
Among them is Multivac GmbH, the packaging machinery
manufacturer that forged a partnership last year with Uhde High
Pressure Technologies, a business unit of ThyssenKrupp Group.
Effective packaging remains a challenge, and Multivac has
stepped outside its vacuum-pack comfort zone to develop modified
atmosphere packaging (MAP) that can survive vessel pressures of
up to 6,000 bar (87,000psi).2  engineering r and d   Tobias
Richter, senior manager—HPP & applied packaging solutions,
Multivac Sepp Haggemüller GmbH & Co. KG,