Double distinction for solutions from the MULTIVAC Group

10.12.2025

With its PROGRESSA pastry machine, FRITSCH presents its latest development in the semi-automatic manufacturing of premium pastries. Following the success of its new IMPRESSA bread machine (2023), the company is now systematically transferring its high hygiene standards to the premium pastry sector. At the centre of this is the company's focus on easy accessibility, fast cleaning cycles and user-friendly handling. The design is conceived with hygiene in mind down to the last detail: smooth and easy-to-clean surfaces, watertight threads for protection, and rounded corners that prevent product residue being deposited. Thanks to the linear quick-release mechanism for slackening the belt tension, for example on the infeed conveyor to the satellite head, there is effortless access even in very tight areas. In addition to this, the belts on the so-called "Omega drives“ can be completely removed in a few seconds, so that even difficult-to-reach points can be cleaned quickly and thoroughly.

The MULTIVAC Cooling@Packing system is a vacuum technology for cooling bakery products, which shifts the cooling process into the thermoforming packaging machine itself. This means that products can be packaged immediately after baking, so that the product shelf life and freshness are increased.

Thanks to the use of Cooling@Packing, bakery products such as baguettes, breads or biscuits can be loaded directly from the oven, using loading robots to hygienically place the products into the open packs at the loading station of the thermoforming packaging machine. The evacuation process in the vacuum chambers of the machine cools the products down within a few seconds from around 95 °C to approximately 30 °C. This saves space in the Production area, as well as reducing energy consumption during cooling, and also increasing production capacity due to shorter baking times. The new solution can be integrated into MULTIVAC thermoforming packaging machines in the high-output range.