Snack Package Gas Testing
- High-precision instruments designed for simple, efficient packaging quality assurance.
- Tailored package testing solutions for small and large-scale packaged snack producers.
- Accurate leak detection to minimise waste and reduce unsellable stock.
- Reliable packaging testing to protect snack freshness, texture, and shelf appeal.
Gas Control Equipment For Packaged Snacks
Delivering precision gas control for snack packaging through optimised modified atmosphere packaging, with equipment tailored specifically to crisps (chips) packaging. Our instruments test for and optimise gas composition, packaging integrity, and seal strength using industry-leading gas analysers, package leak detectors, burst test systems, gas mixers, and flow optimisers.
Packaging Quality Assurance For The Snack Industry
Savoury and sweet packaged snacks, such as nuts, crisps (chips), dried fruit, and cereal bars, are produced and consumed globally.
These products must retain freshness, flavour, texture, shape, and shelf appeal for months after production.
Consistent, high-integrity packaging is essential to prevent leaks and contamination, while an optimal gas mix is critical to preserving texture, flavour, mouthfeel, shape, and visual appeal. This is especially true for crips packaging.
How Are Gases Used In Snack Packaging?
Nitrogen is widely used to displace oxygen in snack packaging, preserving freshness and preventing oxidation, rancidity, and loss of texture and flavour.
This is especially critical for oil-rich products like crisps (chips) and nut mixes, where high fat content increases the risk of oxidation.
Nitrogen also helps maintain pack structure, preventing collapse and protecting delicate snacks from damage during handling and transport.
A typical packaged snack gas mix contains 95-100% nitrogen, as in crisps (chips) packaging, or a nitrogen-rich blend with minimal carbon dioxide, as in nuts packaging. The gas mix is introduced in the package through flushing (or vacuum/gas cycles) before sealing to create a stable modified atmosphere.
How EMCO Can Help
EMCO is a world leader in package testing instruments for the packaged snack industry. Our cutting-edge solutions are trusted by major global snack producers and small manufacturers, including the largest global crisps (chips) producers.
Designed for fast, precise, simple, and efficient package testing and gas flow optimisation, our instruments can perform tests on single and multiple packs.
Our range includes cost-effective yet precise handheld gas analysers for quick spot checks in small headspace applications, pressurised water baths to detect leaks, larger desktop systems capable of semi-automated sequential gas, leak, and burst testing, gas mixers, and flow optimisers.
Small snack producers can rely on our precise handheld gas analysers for on-the-spot modified atmosphere checks in low headspace applications, and our pressurised water baths to reveal hidden leaks in packaging.
Large snack or crisps (chips) factories’ QA teams can establish a systematic packaging testing process using our next-generation desktop instruments to perform semi-automatic (one-tap) gas, leak, and burst tests on up to 4 packages at once. They can also leverage our gas flow optimiser to minimise gas consumption and improve packaging line speed. When analysing data recorded by our equipment, they can streamline the packaging process, improving efficiency and reducing errors.
Packaged snack manufacturers developing new products or scaling their operation can leverage our advanced gas mixers and flow optimisers to test different gas blends, optimising costs and ensuring compliance across different markets.
Why Choose EMCO’s Gas Control Equipment For Packaged Snacks
- Quick, easy, reliable, and safe testing process
- Pressurised water bath to locate leaks from seal failures or pinholes
- Semi-automatic (one-tap) sequential gas, leak, and burst testing
- Industry-leading leak accuracy to 10 microns on our advanced desktop instruments
- Testing equipment designed specifically for the crisps (chips) sector
- Used by the largest global crisps (chips) producers
- Individual or multi-package testing
- Test result recording to improve operational efficiency
- Backed by the EMCO service level guarantee.
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