Food-Grade Nitrogen Generators for Perishables Packaging

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Keeping food fresh in the food packaging industry requires special measures to prevent exposure to oxygen until the product reaches the consumer. Oxygen exposure speeds up spoilage, affecting taste, color, texture, and freshness. These changes affect product quality and can impact your bottom line through reduced shelf life and potential waste.

How Food-Grade Nitrogen Slows Down the Food Oxidation Process

Nitrogen is a widely trusted solution for increasing food shelf life. It does not react efficiently with other substances, creating an inert environment that slows food oxidation. As a result, this preservation technique is valuable for maintaining the freshness of products highly sensitive to environmental conditions, including cannabis, meat, cheese, and coffee.

  • Cannabis packaging: Cannabis’s unique compounds are particularly vulnerable to oxidation. Nitrogen helps preserve THC levels, ensuring potency and protecting market value throughout processing, transportation, storage, and sale.
  • Cheese production: Oxygen exposure can lead to mold growth and negatively affect cheese texture. Nitrogen packaging effectively prevents these issues, significantly extending your cheese products’ shelf life and quality.
  • Coffee roasting and packaging: Freshly roasted coffee releases rich oils and aromas, contributing to its beloved flavors. Nitrogen safeguards these characteristics by preventing oxidation, ensuring your coffee remains fresh and flavorful instead of turning stale or dull.
  • Meat processing: In meat processing, nitrogen is crucial for inhibiting bacterial growth, which can compromise quality and safety. While some oxygen may be retained in the packaging of red meat to maintain its color, nitrogen makes up most of the gas, ensuring freshness and safety.

All these applications require specific nitrogen flow rates and purity levels. To meet these needs, Liberty Systems designs generators that produce pure nitrogen on demand, ensuring consistent supply to align with production timelines without the risk of running out.

The Benefits of Our Nitrogen Generators for Food Packaging

Generating nitrogen on-site is a reliable and cost-effective alternative to purchasing it in bulk. You can cut nitrogen expenses by removing third-party supplier costs and delivery fees. An on-site nitrogen generator ensures a constant supply, helping you manage operations seamlessly without worrying about running out or facing delivery delays.

Beyond reducing downtime, producing nitrogen on-site helps avoid unpredictable supplier pricing fluctuations. This system creates a more predictable financial outlook for your business, contributing to stable long-term budgeting.

Additional reasons to invest in nitrogen generators from Liberty Systems include:

  • Responsive customer support: Our dedicated service team and sales engineers are ready to troubleshoot and offer solutions whenever you need assistance with your order or after-sales support.
  • Extended coverage: We back our nitrogen generators with up to a three-year warranty program for added peace of mind.
  • Durable construction: We design our systems with industrial-grade materials; 6061-T6 anodized aluminum and use a snowstorm filling technique to ensure longevity. Paired with maintenance programs and service reminders, sturdy construction ensures your equipment stays in peak condition for years.
  • Enhanced safety: On-site nitrogen generation reduces the need for regular gas deliveries. As a result, this eliminates the risks associated with storing and handling high-pressure cylinders, creating a safer work environment for your team.
  • Lower insurance premiums: Many insurance providers offer reduced premiums for facilities with safer gas handling systems, which can translate to additional savings.
  • Increased space: On-site nitrogen generators minimize the need for bulky storage tanks and cylinders, freeing valuable floor space to improve facility efficiency.

Installation Services From Liberty Systems

Our team offers full installation support to make sure your new nitrogen generator runs smoothly. We have over 10 technicians who oversee pressure swing adsorption (PSA) systems installation throughout North America, whether you are based in the United States, Mexico, or Canada. For membrane-based generator installations, one of our sales engineers will walk you through the process over the phone. These systems are simpler to maneuver than PSA systems, but we will guide you to ensure your team completes the process correctly.

After installation, you must regularly service your generator to keep it functioning at peak efficiency. We can sign you up for our FilterStar program so that you receive reminder emails whenever your generator needs new filters or any other service and support.

Experience the Difference With Liberty Systems

Stay ahead of production demands and make your operation safer and more efficient with reliable access to nitrogen. Liberty Systems is the partner you can trust for nitrogen generators and service, thanks to our robust collection of generator models. We put decades of expertise into building some of the most dependable nitrogen generators for perishable products like cannabis, meat, cheese, and coffee. Contact our team to discuss your options and learn more about our products.

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