2 Jun 2020

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has given an important impact on people’s alimentary behavior, since it affected significantly the food industry.

On one hand, the HoReCa employers mainly paid the price due to the enormous restrictions for hotels, canteens, and restaurants, but on the other hand, an important increment in food purchases in supermarkets and large-scale distribution.

prepackaged meals

The prepackaged meals took a forward step in the industry: placed in refrigerated counters, can find them both refrigerated and frozen, made with easy or challenging recipes composed of meat, fish, or vegetables.

The common denominator of prepackaged meals is the shelf life, and it became the auditors’ judgment parameter of the most important retail chains, even before the final consumer: to increase it, aside from raw materials’ quality and care in meals preparation, packaging in clean rooms and strict conservation of the cold chain becomes of primary importance!

Standard Tech offers support

Standard Tech offers support not only in the construction of refrigerated and conditioning systems, as well as high-quality clean rooms with high sanitation levels, but also during the study of process layout, adjusting product, personnel, and packaging flows to the increasingly strict sector regulations.