Cryogenics: freezing, cooling and transporting food
Crygogenic processes based on Carbon Dioxide (gas, liquid or dry ice) and Nitrogen (gas or liquid) are particularly suitable for cooling, freezing and transporting chilled or frozen foods under controlled conditions.
Food cryogenics offers unparalleled cooling power. This process is essential if you want to preserve the initial taste and nutritional qualities of food, improve its manufacturing process or transport at a controlled temperature. This technique is suitable for all types of food, from the most fragile to the most exotic.
Cryogenic food solutions
When your customers want: flexibility, quality and economy
Discover the top five benefits of cryogenic refrigeration
- Quality
Perfect results in record time: Cooling or cryogenic freezing takes place particularly quickly, perfectly preserving the taste and the freshness of food.
- Flexibility
Multifunctional and compact: the same cryogenic equipment can cool, freeze and harden a surface... and thus ensure optimal flexibility of your production line.
- Productivity
Food grade cryogenics allows continuous adjustment of cooling capacity, reduced water loss and up to 10 times faster product processing time. You can run your equipment continuously at the nominal flow rate, while perfectly preserving your product quality.
- Performance
Save time: Combine cryogenic refrigeration with mechanical refrigeration for even faster cooling and freezing.
- Innovation
Create and market new products in varying quantities - based on demand - and with less investment.
A wide range of applications
Cryogenic techniques are also increasingly being used in molecular cooking, and to create effects around the food (smoke, etc.)
Batch or continuous rapid freezing, IQF, encrusting or forming, rapid cooling and food transport... A range of applications, equipment and gases (CO 2 and nitrogen) for cryogenic applications in the food industry.
To guarantee the integrity of the cold chain from producer to consumer, Air Liquide offers reliable, quiet and ecological cryogenic solutions.
