Summary
- Profile Type
- Business Offer
- POD Reference
- BOPL20240628009
- Term of Validity
- 6 August 2024 - 6 August 2025
- Company's Country
- Poland
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
- Targeted Countries
- Italy
- Slovakia
- France
- Switzerland
- Norway
- Germany
- Spain
- Austria
- Croatia
- Czechia
- Netherlands
- Lithuania
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General information
- Short Summary
- Polish company that produces compact food freeze-drying devices is looking for distributors from the food processing industry to enter new European markets. The device designed and manufactured by the company is much smaller and cheaper than the industrial lyophilization solutions available on the market.
- Full Description
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A Polish company, which started its operation in 2019 has designed and developed compact freeze drying machine for food. Although the freeze-drying process is known for some time, machinery needed to perform a process are often very big and heavy. Company has put a lot of effort in shrinking technology and making the device small and compactible. Until now, this technology has been used only in narrow branches of the food industry and in the laboratories of pharmaceutical companies.
The company offers currently 6 commercial models and 6 laboratory models with capacities ranging from 7 to 50 kg of fresh batch.
The devices have a touch screen, and the process of lyophilization is fully automatized. It allows to freeze-dry fruit, vegetables, herbs, meat, sweets, dairy products, as well as ready meals. First sales of the machine started at the beginning of 2019. The buyers are restaurateurs, confectioners, food processing companies, growers as well as private individuals. In addition to the production of the device, the company conducts R&D works aimed at implementing for sale its next versions, i.e. the home version for 3-4 kg of load.
The company is looking for distributors with experience in trading with food processing companies, growers, HORECA or supplying household appliances to restaurants in European Union.
The main recipients of the solution are companies from the following industries: HORECA (including new types of dishes and additives), horticulture (production of vegetables, fruits, mushrooms and herbs), cosmetics (testing new products), dairy (freeze drying cheeses, milk, kefirs, eggs), zoological (production of lio snacks for animals), catering (lio additives to salads, e.g. onions as well as ready meals), apiaries (lio additions to flavored honey, royal jelly), confectionery products (lio additives for cakes, creams, ice cream and chocolate), health-related industries (supplements, e.g. algae, collagen, vitamin C), hemp producers, tourism and travel sector (preparing food and drink before going to the mountains). Freeze dryers are more and more often bought also by private individuals. - Advantages and Innovations
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The distinguishing factor of the company is the use of a rectangular vacuum chamber. This type of chamber made it possible to reduce the size of the freeze-dryer while maintaining high performance. Compared to the commonly used cylindrical vacuum chambers, the rectangular vacuum chamber allows 2.5 x more efficient use of the chamber's working space.
The use of small-scale freeze dryers will significantly reduce food waste in enterprises. It will contribute to increasing the quality of food products and will allow for their free storage, transport and sale without incurring additional costs for their cooling or freezing. Healthy lyophilisates, which are currently very expensive, can be produced individually by everyone in households. The lyophilisates given to children are increasingly replacing unhealthy chips and sweets. Freeze drying is a purely physical process. Products subjected to this process retain all their nutritional values uand can be stored for up to 25 years without any chemical additives like preservatives or enhancers. - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- IPR status
- Secret know-how
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
- Currently company is looking for business and institutional partners to sign a commercial agreement. Role of the partners will be to expand the sales network of the produced freeze dryers. This especially applies to the catering industry, HORECA, horticulture and agriculture including hemp bracing as well as vegetable, fruit and mushrooms production and laboratory equipment industry. The company is especially looking for partners with experience in selling devices in the above-mentioned industries.
- Type and Size of Partner
- SME <=10
- SME 50 - 249
- R&D Institution
- Big company
- Other
- SME 11-49
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 08001004 - Food Processing
- 08001002 - Food Additives/Ingredients/Functional Food
- 08001005 - Food Technology
- Market keywords
- 09004008 - Other manufacturing (not elsewhere classified)
- 07003002 - Health food
- 07006 - Other Consumer Related (not elsewhere classified)
- Sector Groups Involved
- Agri-Food
- Targeted countries
- Italy
- Slovakia
- France
- Switzerland
- Norway
- Germany
- Spain
- Austria
- Croatia
- Czechia
- Netherlands
- Lithuania
Images
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Operation of the Freeze Dryer