Vegetable Packaging Gas Control & Testing
- Reliable active packaging solutions to maintain quality and prolong shelf life.
- Ethylene mix control equipment specifically designed for tomato ripening control.
- Accurate ripening management to minimise waste and increase saleable yield.
- Reliable produce packaging testing to maintain freshness and ensure packaging integrity.
Active Packaging Tools & Gas Control Equipment For Vegetable Producers
Providing field-tested active packaging tools and industry-leading gas control equipment for vegetable packaging.
Our range of oxygen absorbers, moisture absorbers, ethylene absorbers, CO2 absorbers, and CO2 generators helps maintain ideal internal conditions during storage and packaging.
Our innovative ethylene mix controller, with continuous monitoring and integrated flow control, enables efficient tomato ripening control and cost-effective gas use.
Our gas mixers, gas analysers, package leak detectors, and burst test systems help ensure pre-cut and ready-to-eat vegetables are packaged in precisely controlled modified atmosphere (MAP).
Packaging Quality Assurance For Vegetable Manufacturers
Vegetables are grown, processed, and shipped globally, often covering long distances before reaching consumers.
These perishable products must maintain texture, colour, freshness, and nutritional integrity throughout the supply chain to preserve their commercial value.
Harvesting at the correct ripeness stage is essential, but creating and maintaining an optimal storage and packaging atmosphere that suppresses microbial activity and prevents spoilage is equally critical.
This is particularly relevant for high-value exports, such as pre-cut and ready-to-eat vegetables with shorter shelf lives and stricter quality demands.
Gas Control In Vegetable Packaging
Carbon dioxide plays a key role in vegetable packaging. Optimal carbon dioxide levels help inhibit microbial growth and extend shelf life, especially in pre-cut and pre-washed vegetables, which are more prone to contamination and decay.
Moisture control is also important, as condensation can quickly lead to bacterial growth and mould, particularly in leafy greens and salad mixes.
Ethylene is a natural plant hormone that accelerates ripening in climacteric vegetables (those that can ripen after harvest), such as tomatoes. It can also cause firmness loss, flavour changes, and rot in ethylene-sensitive vegetables like lettuce and carrots. So, ethylene control is fundamental to preserving quality during storage and transport.
Increasing ethylene levels helps climacteric vegetables, such as tomatoes, reach the target ripeness level before distribution. Lowering ethylene levels helps prevent softening and decay in sensitive vegetables such as lettuce.
Modified atmosphere packaging is widely used to maintain freshness, texture, and colour in pre-cut vegetables and high-value exports, such as baby leaf spinach, herbs, and broccoli.
To achieve this, vegetable producers typically use a gas mix that includes low oxygen to reduce respiration, elevated carbon dioxide to inhibit spoilage, and moderate nitrogen to stabilise the atmosphere.
The exact composition depends on the vegetable type, its respiration rate (how quickly it consumes oxygen and releases carbon dioxide, leading to ripening and spoilage), and how much of the product is cut and exposed.
MAP machines flush the packaging with the correct gas mix before sealing, creating a protective environment that preserves quality through storage, transport, and retail display.
How EMCO Can Help
EMCO is a global leader in active packaging and gas control technology trusted by vegetable producers of all sizes to provide advanced tools and equipment that preserve quality, ensure consistency, prolong shelf life, and enhance the efficiency of fresh produce operations.
Our active packaging range includes field-tested oxygen absorbers, moisture absorbers, ethylene absorbers, ethylene filtration systems, and next-generation ethylene mix controllers.
We also build cutting-edge desktop systems for gas, leak, and burst testing, reliable pressurised water baths to detect leaks, and gas mixers designed to combine precise ratios and maintain consistent gas composition.
Tomato producers can leverage our advanced ethylene mix controller with continuous monitoring and integrated flow control to manage ripening efficiently and optimise ethylene usage and costs.
Small to mid-sized vegetable producers can rely on our active packaging solutions and ethylene filtration systems to preserve freshness, extend shelf life, and reduce spoilage without complex gas control systems. To locate leaks, they can use our pressurised water bath.
Large-scale manufacturers handling pre-cut vegetables and leafy greens can also leverage our industry-leading gas mixers, gas flow optimisers, and package testing equipment to ensure product consistency, limit spoilage, and meet retail requirements.
Why Choose EMCO’s Gas Control Equipment And Active Packaging Tools For
- Reliable, field-tested active packaging tools.
- Precise ripening gas controllers for cold storage rooms.
- Easy and quick gas control in glasshouses and shipping containers.
- Ethylene mix control equipment specifically designed for tomato ripening management.
- Pressurised water bath to identify leaks.
- Quick, easy, accurate, and safe package testing process.
- Test result recording to improve operational efficiency.
- Backed by the EMCO service level guarantee.
