Perfect your product
What sets Praxair apart from the competition? Our capability to help you thoroughly understand how cryogenic freezing systems will affect your product, and how making changes to your current method could benefit your operations. In our Food Technologies Lab, we can analyze your process, then provide you with recommendations to improve the quality and consistency of your product.
What is the Food Technologies Lab?
Our lab is a full-time facility, staffed with experienced and dedicated technicians. Here we conduct tests using full-size production equipment, and provide accurate and detailed equipment capacity sizing and freezing rate curves — often answering your most difficult product or processing questions — so that you can optimize your system.
Whether you need to see and evaluate straight tunnel, flighted or spiral equipment for freezing or chilling options, the Praxair Food Lab is an invaluable starting point.
Our Food Lab has been operational for over 30 years. This means our evaluations are supported by data collected from thousands of tests on actual food products, in-lab thermal analyses and product testing on production-scale equipment.
What to expect
When you work with the Food Lab, we will:
- collect data on the thermal characteristics of your product
- determine parameters for your freezing and chilling equipment
- show what your product looks and tastes like after freezing
- recommend ways to better meet your goals
Our Virtual Lab
For team members that aren't able to attend a Food Lab session, Praxair has implemented the Praxair Virtual Lab. Using our Virtual Lab, team members can partake in sessions remotely, see all equipment demonstrations and finished product results. Our Virtual Lab allows you to ask questions of our freezing experts and get real-time answers and explanations.
So whether it's maximizing yield, boosting production or perfecting your finished product, our Lab experts are ready to help with a customized assessment of your operation. Click here to contact a Praxair representative, or call 1-800-PRAXAIR and talk to one of our experts today.