Cooling@Packing from MULTIVAC receives the Sustainable Packaging News Award

24.01.2025

The MULTIVAC Cooling@Packing System is a vacuum application, which integrates the cooling process for bakery products into the thermoforming packaging machine. This enables the bakery products to be packed immediately after baking, so that they remain fresher for longer and have an extended shelf life. Bakery products are traditionally cooled by means of cooling spirals at ambient temperature, or alternatively by passing through cooling tunnels. Both procedures take up a lot of space in the production area, as well as requiring a high level of investment.

„By using our Cooling@Packing system, which is about to be launched on the market, bakery products can be placed directly from the oven into the open pack cavities on the thermoforming packaging machine – and even automatically by means of loading robots,” explains Thomas Fickler, Product Manager at MULTIVAC. “Thanks to the evacuation process in the chambers of the packaging machine, the bakery products are cooled down within a few seconds from 95°C to approximately 30°C. The evacuation process produces vaporisation energy, which is released by the evaporation of the bakery products' own moisture, and which then cools down the bakery products.“ 

The MULTIVAC Cooling@Packing System enables savings to be made by companies: firstly thanks to the smaller space requirement for cooling the bakery products, and secondly due to the reduced energy consumption during product cooling. The risk of product contamination during the cooling process is also minimised. And the production capacity can be increased thanks to shorter baking times, without the product quality suffering. The new solution can be integrated into MULTIVAC thermoforming packaging machines in the high-output range.

“We are continually developing new and groundbreaking technology, which helps our customers to produce even more efficiently and sustainably,” says Thomas Fickler. “We are highly delighted with this award, which confirms our commitment to efficient and sustainable packaging solutions,” says Thomas Fickler.