Dole acquires EnWave REV dehydration machine

Dole Worldwide Food & Beverages Group, a division of Dole Asia Holdings Pte. Ltd., has acquired a second 10kW Radiant Energy Vacuum (REV) dehydration machine from EnWave Corporation. 

Both companies previously announced plans for a Global Strategic Partnership in August 2021, and the addition of a second REV machine marks a material advancement of this strategic initiative.

EnWave, a Vancouver-based advanced technology company, has developed a Radiant Energy Vacuum (REV) – an innovative, proprietary method for the precise dehydration of food and cannabis applications.  It holds a robust intellectual property portfolio protecting several unique processes relating to specific food applications produced using vacuum-microwave technology.

REV technology’s commercial viability has been demonstrated and is growing rapidly across several market verticals in the food, and pharmaceutical sectors, including legal cannabis.

EnWave’s strategy is to sign royalty-bearing commercial licenses with innovative, disruptive companies in multiple verticals for the use of REV technology. The company has signed over forty-five licenses to date in 20 countries worldwide. In addition to these licenses, it established a Limited Liability Corporation, NutraDried Food Company, LLC, to manufacture, market, and sell REV-dried snack products in North America, including the Moon Cheese® brand, as well as co-manufacture for third parties.

EnWave has introduced REV as an advanced dehydration platform in the food and cannabis sectors: faster and cheaper than freeze drying, with better end product quality than air drying or spray drying. EnWave currently offers two distinct commercial REV platforms:

nutraREV® which is a drum-based system that dehydrates organic materials quickly and at low cost, while maintaining high levels of nutrition, taste, texture, and colour; and, quantaREV® which is a tray-based system used for continuous, high-volume low-temperature drying. 

EnWave is also active in the pharmaceutical industry through a joint development agreement with GEA Lyophil, a leader in GMP drying machinery.