An organic way of killing insects! MA concept, now available for 25 kg bags
When storing your nuts, seeds, and milk powders in bulk, the big bag sizes usually range from 250 kg to over 2,000 kg. Masterpack has now come up with a smaller alternative. We spoke to Jos Smeitink, Director of Business Development, who introduced the compact modified atmosphere packaging (MAP).
The long-awaited compact MAP has a major impact on storing organic products
Jos explains that more and more people are opting for organically grown food, and MAP plays a pivotal role in storing these products.
“These companies cannot use any pesticides and they are plagued with insects that are eating away at the packed or the organic food products. The MA process of Masterpack Group will store food products under low oxygen, because of the low oxygen all insects in the FIBC will die,” says Jos.
However, the applications of compact MAP don’t stop here. Jos states that there is no specific industry or customer segment for the compact MAP and everyone looking to store their products in a modified atmosphere can use these bags.
“In general you could say that shelf-life, depending on your product, will be extended for six months to 12 months at least,” explains Jos.
Although for some products the shelf life can be even longer. For seeds, it can be even way over two years.
Super-fast processing of 25 kg bags with the easy cap
Masterpack’s innovations extend even further, as they have developed the easy cap, that you can apply to your compact bags.
“It’s much faster in handling, connecting the MA machine to the bag, and closing the valve. It’s called easy cap but it is actually a valve,” clarifies Jos.
Using it is as easy as it sounds: put it on the bag, and switch on the MA machine, when the process is done you can close the cap with its connector and then remove it. So there is no need to screw the cap onto the machine and then unscrew it later on.
So everything sounds compact and easy, right? We know that there is more to come from Masterpack and we’re staying tuned to see how they continue to innovate the packaging industry!
