UK’s leading high pressure processing services provider, Deli 24 has invested £2 million to double its capacity. Its new 420-litre HPP machine from Hiperbaric will operate alongside the company’s existing 420-litre and 135-litre machines in Milton Keynes.
HPP (also known as Pascalisation) is a technology that helps extend food shelf life, and relies on the effect that ultra-high-pressure water surrounding the food product has on the cell wall structure of living organisms. The process results in the inactivation of food spoilage organisms and pathogens whilst flavour and nutrition remain unaffected, enabling production of premium quality, safer, more natural products. The water pressure applied is up to 87,000 psi (6,000 Bar), the equivalent of being 60 km under the sea and with the earth’s deepest ocean trench being a mere 11km, it is understandable that living things struggle to survive such processing conditions.
Deli 24’s new 420-litre HPP machine
Formed in 2010, Deli 24 now employs a team comprising individuals with extensive multi-disciplinary food industry experience. This provides a collective strength in depth, with a particular focus on commercial and food safety expertise. Since the formation of the business, in just eight years the plant has doubled in size. From the initial 135-litre HPP machine, in 2014 the first 420-litre machine was installed, followed now by the addition of another 420-litre machine.
Jeff Winter, Deli 24 Managing Director, comments: “We have seen a substantial growth in the number of products which are benefitting from the considerable advantages afforded by HPP. This is across a wide range of foods including meat, cheese, fish, ready meals, vegetables and pet food, along with juices. Recently we have also seen products aimed at the burgeoning wellness market using our toll-based HPP services, recognising the benefits of a process which extends the shelf life while having no effect on the flavour or the nutritional properties of the product. HPP is now even being used by many as a marketing opportunity, with companies actively promoting the fact that their products are HPP treated on their packaging.”
Paul Winter, Deli 24 Director, continues: “We offer a contract service to companies across the globe. Some countries are more accustomed to the benefits of HPP than others but we are seeing growth in both domestic and export activities. This is from existing customers whose HPP treated products are achieving sales growth, as well as new customers who we are introducing to HPP as a process and helping them with their products and packaging to enable them to maximise the opportunities it presents. This investment in another machine has been made to allow us to meet this increase in demand.”
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