Vacuum cooling and packaging with Cooling@Packing

Cooling@Packing: Efficient Vacuum Cooling Technology for Baked Goods

Cooling@Packing is a vacuum application that integrates the cooling process for baked goods into a thermoforming packaging machine. This allows baked goods to be packed immediately after baking, keeping them fresh and edible for longer.

Conventional cooling processes for baked goods tend to be done in cooling spirals at ambient temperature or in a dedicated cooling tunnel.

Both approaches require a lot of space in production facilities and involve high investment costs.

With the MULTIVAC Cooling@Packing system, baked goods such as baguettes, breads, or cookies can be loaded straight out of the oven into open packs by hygienic robots at the loading station of the thermoforming packaging machine.

Inside the packaging machine, as the chambers are put under vacuum, the baked goods cool down from 95°C to around 30°C within seconds.

The MULTIVAC Cooling@Packing system helps companies to make the following savings: The space required for cooling the baked goods is reduced, as is the energy requirement for the cooling systems themselves. The considerable shortening of the cooling process also minimizes the risk of product contamination. Production capacity is also increased thanks to shorter baking times, without compromising product quality.

The new solution can be integrated into MULTIVAC thermoforming packaging machines for the high-performance segment.

Awarded the German Packaging Prize 2024

The Cooling@Packing system from MULTIVAC is characterized by greater freshness, longer shelf life, savings in energy costs and space requirements, as well as increased production capacity.

An innovation for cooling bakery products in a packaging machine, which has been awarded the German Packaging Prize in 2024 – the largest European exhibition of innovations in the packaging sector.