Brazil-based company All Natural Freshness (ANF) has worked with Natural Drinks to develop a total high pressure processing (HPP) buffering and material handling solution that would maximize throughput on the HPP operation, keep pace with the juice manufacturing operation, and assure the highest quality product possible.
The solution offers customer specific levels of automation versus manual operation and, the key to the whole puzzle, a stackable, moveable, shipping ready buffering system.
The minimum recommended amount of product buffer in a high volume HPP operation is 1 – shift.
By buffering an entire shift of product, ready for HPP, machine owners can be flexible to endure any of the issues that can cause diminished throughput.
“Proper buffering helps to maintain high levels of throughput, up to 98%, allowing the user to operate at the lowest cost per pound possible day in and day out,” says Gerald Ludwick, president of ANF.
ANF’s HPP material handling and buffering solution is compatible with Avure 350L and the Fresher Evolution HPP, Evolution Series of Machines.
HPP is cold water ultra-high pressure based technology that can drastically extend the shelf-life of totally fresh products.
In high pressure pasteurization all natural food products, such as juice, are submerged, in water and then subjected to water pressure.
Under the intense pressure the spoilage microbes are drastically reduced.
The end result is a shelf life extension of between two to three times the shelf life of the product in its natural state.
