MULTIVAC : Trailblazing Innovations in Food Packaging

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food and beverage industry has been a mixed bag. While the restaurants and cafes have taken a big hit in the wake of social distancing norms, it has put forth a silver lining for packaged and canned food products. However, the challenges still vastly outrun the gains. For instance, there is a renewed vigor among the consumers for safe, sanitized, and sustainable food packaging. Thus, the food brand owners, food service providers, and retailers are increasingly emphasizing reliable and efficient yet hygienic and sustainable packaging designs. That’s where MULTIVAC comes into the picture.

MULTIVAC is one of the world’s leading suppliers of integrated packaging solutions that focus on packaging, processing, portioning, labeling, and marking of food materials, together with food inspection and handling. Leaning on their six decades of expertise in the industry, MULTIVAC offers a comprehensive and extensive product portfolio in food packaging, which includes a broad spectrum of packaging machines catering to upstream and downstream processes.

MULTIVAC’s expansive list of packaging solutions comprises thermoform packaging machines, tray sealers, chamber machines, and shrinking and drying units.

This all-inclusive list is further complemented by their large number of patented innovations, including the MULTIVAC Hygienic Design™ that has set a new benchmark for hygiene standards in food production.

What steers MULTIVAC ahead of the competition is indeed the high level of flexibility and versatility it exhibits in machine concepts. The company can cater to the specific requirements of its varied client base by customizing the packaging machines and materials according to their requirements. Thanks to MULTIVAC’s high competency in each packaging process stage, like forming and cutting, it can successfully carry out modular construction and intelligent integration of additional functions and components to meet the custom objectives of the clients. “We are constantly striving to optimize our business processes further and to align our range of products and services ever closer to the current requirements of the market and our customers,” says Christian Traumann, Group President of MULTIVAC.

Meanwhile, MULTIVAC is also a trailblazer in the sector when it comes to delivering sustainable packaging materials through the development of alternative packaging material concepts with paperboard materials. MULTIVAC PaperBoard packaging materials, which were developed in conjunction with leading manufacturers, can run on standard machines and meet the requirements of the food industry concerning barrier properties and protective functions. The company’s pack designs and machine technology also align well with the cause to enhance recyclability and reduce packaging material consumption. Such initiatives have made MULTIVAC the only packaging solutions provider among the list of “50 Sustainability and Climate Leaders,” devised by the United Nations (UN) and Bloomberg to highlight the ground-breaking contributions made by leading companies in achieving the UN climate objectives.

Riding on the coattails of such competencies, MULTIVAC is well set to stay on its course to develop more inventive and sustainable packaging machines, technologies, and materials that provide the best possible packaging results. To facilitate this, they are fostering partnerships with the leading manufacturers offering complementary technologies worldwide.