Our customers’ products: Steritech solutions for every application

Processed fruit and vegetables: adding value to the natural, sustainably

Fruit and vegetables offer considerable potential for food processing: compotes, jams, juices, soups, sauces, chutneys…

Thanks to pasteurization and autoclave sterilization, it is possible to create long-life products without additives, while preserving color, taste and nutritional qualities.

Key data

• Heat treatment: Fruit: 95-105 °C; Vegetables: 115-121 °C
• Packaging: glass jars, bottles, small plastic jars
• Shelf life: up to 3 years at room temperature

💡 Recovery of unsold goods

Transforming unsold fruit and vegetables into preserves, soups or jams is a concrete solution to combat food waste and optimize resources.

Prepared dishes: food safety and industrial performance

Prepared dishes are a key market for pasteurization and sterilization. They fall into two main categories:

🥘 Pasteurized prepared dishes :

Shelf life in the refrigerated section
Frequent packaging in plastic trays
Shelf life of several months

🧆 S terilized prepared dishes

Room-temperature storage
Various packaging options: doypacks, trays, cans
Shelf life of at least one year

💡 Key advantage

Sterilization enables the product to be cooked and sterilized directly in its packaging, reducing production steps, upstream cooking time and energy consumption.

Meat and seafood: mastering sensitive products

Meat and seafood products require precise, controlled thermal processes to guarantee safety and quality.

Current applications

• Meat in pieces, shredded or minced
• Plain or in sauce
• Whole fish or fillets, marinated or ready-to-eat
• Rillettes, terrines and spreads

Key data

• Heat treatment: 115-121 °C
• Packaging: metal cans, glass jars, flexible pouches
• Shelf life: 1 to 3 years at room temperature

💡 A major logistical asset

Sterilization eliminates dependence on the cold chain, reducing logistics costs and environmental impact, while securing supplies in constrained areas.

Dairy products: finding the perfect balance

Contrary to popular belief, some dairy products can be pasteurized or sterilized in an autoclave.

Products concerned

• Dairy desserts (rice pudding, cream desserts)
• Milk-based preparations (sauces)
• Pasteurized milk

Key data

• Heat treatment: 80-105°C (pasteurization)
• Packaging: jars, bottles, flexible pouches
• Shelf life: up to 3 months

💡 Technological challenge

Milk is sensitive to the Maillard reaction. The challenge is to find the right balance between microbiological safety, shelf-life and organoleptic quality.

Baby food: the highest standards of food safety

Steritech autoclaves are suitable for a wide range of products: infant milks, fruit and vegetable purées, and complete baby meals, all while respecting the nutritional and sensory integrity of the recipes.

Key data

• Heat treatment :

• 95-105 °C for acid products
• 115-121 °C for other formulations
• Packaging: small glass jars, gourds, cups, doypacks.
• Shelf life: 1 to 3 years at room temperature
• Strict regulatory framework: compliance with the requirements ofANSES,EFSA (Europe) and the FDA (United States), particularly with regard to additives, pesticide residues and nitrate levels.

💡 Product specific
Fruit purees generally have a pH between 3 and 4, allowing for gentler heat treatment, which helps preserve taste, color and essential nutrients.

💡 Why use autoclave heat treatment for baby food?

• Guarantee maximum microbiological safety while preserving nutritional and sensory quality
• Simplify logistics by eliminating the cold chain, cutting costs and making it easier to transport baby food to the end consumer.
• Meeting the stringent regulatory requirements of the baby food market

Pet food: performance and safety in animal nutrition

Wet animal feed (pâtés, pieces in sauce, jellied textures) places high demands on process safety and consistency.

Key data

• Heat treatment: 121-130 °C
• Packaging: metal cans, aluminium cans, flexible pouches
• Shelf life: 1 to 3 years at room temperature

💡 Product specificity

Recipes rich in protein and fat require precise thermal parameters to avoid overcooking and preserve texture and flavor.

Pharmaceutical products: absolute precision and reliability

In the pharmaceutical industry, heat treatment is a critical step. Steritech autoclaves guarantee sterility while respecting the integrity of formulations and packaging.

Common applications :

• Solutions IV
• Ophthalmic or inhaled products
• Parenteral and enteral nutrition
• Infusion bags and therapeutic liquids

💡 Process control

Controlled heating ramps, stable bearings and rapid cooling are essential for heat-sensitive products.