INDUSTRIAL GAS SUPPLY, EQUIPMENT & TECHNOLOGY FOR THE FOOD & BEVERAGE INDUSTRY
Keeping food fresher, longer
Our gases provide the product characteristics that our customers need. Frozen, chilled, crisp, fresh, fizzy — it’s all possible with Praxair gases and application expertise. We work with a wide range of customers to increase their productivity and improve yield, all while enhancing food product quality and maintaining our focus on food safety. And we do it by developing new and innovative applications and technologies, as well as continuously improving our existing systems to make your process even more efficient. When you buy from Praxair, you get our total system approach, ensuring that you receive products optimized for your operations and 24/7 support from our in-house food technologists and engineers. At Praxair, we help you deliver high quality food and drink straight to your customers so you can meet their ever-changing needs.
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INDUSTRIAL GASES FOR THE FOOD & BEVERAGE INDUSTRY
Carbon Dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a key cryogenic agent in cooling, chilling and freezing applications, protecting the taste and texture of your food products by maintaining proper temperature control. Carbon dioxide also reduces the need for preservatives in packaged products, and is the essential ingredient for fizz in your carbonated beverages.
Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a key cryogenic agent in cooling, chilling and food freezing. Because of its extremely cold temperatures, immersion freezing in liquid nitrogen is the fastest freezing method known for producing individually quick frozen (IQF) foods. Nitrogen also plays a key role in reducing spoilage, discoloration and off–flavors, while giving strength to retail packaging.
Oxygen
Critical for life, oxygen is used in aquaculture to deliver the dissolved oxygen levels that are needed for high production levels and fish health. Praxair oxygen is also key to providing increase dissolved oxygen levels for enhanced aeration and aerobic digestion in food wastewater streams.
Industrial Applications & Solutions for the Food & Beverage Industry
Freezing & Chilling
We offer a full product line of freezing and chilling equipment, and can design and build a custom system to meet your specific need. With Praxair, you can count on a system designed to maximize both yield and production.
Flour & Dough Cooling
Optimum dough temperature is critical to most bakery operations. Our flour and dough cooling systems provide precise, yet easy-to-operate, methods to achieve the desired temperature.
Meat Mixing
Heat generated during mixing and grinding accelerates bacterial growth and leads to off-flavors, decreased shelf life and spoilage. Our cryogenic meat mixing systems slow bacterial growth and assure uniformity of temperature, helping you maximize shelf life and product quality.
CO2 Snow Cooling
Cool your food products with carbon dioxide snow. Our CO2 application systems are an economical and precise way to remove heat. With a wide range of snowing applications, you can determine the exact amount, pattern and shape you need to meet your cooling requirements.
Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP)
Extend the shelf life of your meat, baked goods and produce. With over 200 specialty gas blends for food packaging, we can help food processors and packers select the right option to fit their specific needs.
Beverage Carbonation
From large bottled to small canned carbonated beverage production facilities, our reliable supply systems can accommodate a wide variety of production needs that go well beyond carbon dioxide. We provide nitrogen and dripping equipment for still beverages. We supply gas for improved beer system quality and efficiency, and we offer a sampler system that enables safe retrieval of gas samples for testing in your QA labs.
Greenhouse Growing
Improved greenhouse growth can be achieved with the effective use of carbon dioxide. Using liquid CO2 from Praxair offers many advantages to growers including purity of product, reduced crop damage, no heat or moisture production, better control of CO2 levels and the flexibility to introduce CO2 within the plant canopy at any time.
Aquaculture
Praxair oxygen lets fish farmers increase tank capacity with enhanced growth rates and fish density. Our systems also provide great results for shrimp and fish farming — healthier ponds and greater yield even with an accelerated growth cycle.
After the harvest, the condition of the ponds can also be improved with Praxair oxygen systems for aeration to reduce BOD and carbon dioxide systems for buffered pH balance. Water & Wastewater Treatment
Controlled Atmosphere Stunning
Improving product quality, supporting your animal handling policies and enhancing the worker environment are all achieved with the Praxair CAS system for broiler and turkey processing.