PacLife technology in active packaging, or "smart"
The commitment of the Chilean company PacLife, more than a decade ago, was to develop a new technology in modified atmosphere (AM) packaging, which would be able to increase the range of safety and reaction to adverse conditions, or breaks of cold, for the protection of export fruit shipments.
The biggest challenge was to get exporters to arrive with fresh fruit and in optimal conditions from different parts of the world to the final consumer, without causing major problems and losses, as a result of the usual problems in the cold chain and logistics at destination.
For this reason, PacLife created the first generation of smart or active AM bags and packaging, technology that has a Thermo Active & Dynamic Liner or Membrane, which allows its containers to react and adapt dynamically to the metabolism of fruits and vegetables according to the storage temperature.
Ronald Caro, Head of Research and Development of the company, explains that the great limitation of conventional AM containers is their little or no capacity to react to frequent events, such as sudden changes in temperature during the transfer process and logistics However, this condition is safeguarded by the active packaging, since the thermal influence and the direct effect on the increase in the fruit's metabolism means that the plastic sheet increases its permeability proportionally. In simple words, it is the container that manages to adapt to the metabolic requirements of the fruit, product of the increase in temperature, achieving an atmosphere of safe balance and becoming an additional security element for the export process.
The 2013, after many years of R & D, PacLife manages to create a highly innovative technology and with sufficiently differentiating attributes to patent it in Chile and the world with the registration number 50.344, originating a real revolution in packaging. refers.
Mauricio Riquelme, CEO & co-founder of Paclife, tells us that “thanks to an arduous research and development work, plus the empirical and technical validation of our attributes in various fields, especially with tests and comparative analyzes with important fruit exporters, flowers and vegetables, It has allowed us to achieve an explosive growth and solid positioning in the export industry of Chile, Peru and Italy "He says.
Recently at PacLife they have achieved another milestone, selling smart packaging to China for local blueberry producers, such as Dalian Yidu Group Co., one of the most important fruit receivers in the world.
The research area of PacLife traveled to China to verify the real arrival conditions of shipments of kiwifruit packed with its technology and as seen, and evaluated by its specialists, the handling and logistics remains extreme and undesirable even for the high temperatures, giving the following results:
PacLife is very clear that active packaging does not make magic, nor less miracles, this is why its business model obliges and It contemplates a complete and ample technical support to offer cutting-edge technological solutions in the fieldIts professionals guide and support each client throughout the fruit selection and packaging process, according to their requirements and target markets, and then close this stage with regular visits to different destinations, checking the quality of their arrivals in situ.
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