Food

Optimising food transport:
innovative solutions from va-Q-tec

Food requires special attention during transport in order to maintain its freshness and quality. Food transport, especially over the last mile, is therefore a challenge in logistics. At va-Q-tec, we offer you customised solutions for efficient and reliable cold chain logistics – whether for chilled or frozen goods. This allows you to ensure that your products always arrive at their destination under optimum conditions.

Temperature-controlled high-tech transport solutions for the food industry: A safe and uninterrupted cold chain is of the utmost importance when transporting food, as various standards and legal regulations must be adhered to during shipping and safe consumption must be guaranteed at all times.

With our innovative thermoboxes, a wide variety of foods, such as dough pieces, fruit and vegetables or meat and fish, can be shipped at constant temperatures – without the need for an external power supply.

Efficient solutions for food transportation

The logistics sector is confronted with increasing food law requirements in the area of food transportation. For grocery delivery and home delivery in particular, it is important that the products reach the end customer in perfect condition. The same applies to bakeries, which have to deliver their dough pieces, snacks and baked goods to their branches fresh and without any loss of quality.

Our solutions focus on optimizing passive transport processes to meet your requirements. With our innovative thermoboxes, a wide variety of food products, such as dough pieces, fruit and vegetables or meat and fish, can be dispatched at the required constant temperatures.

Our solutions are specially adapted to the requirements of the food industry. This means that they not only keep food optimally fresh, but are also easy to clean, stackable and, of course, food-safe. We implement individualized packaging solutions for our customers according to their requirements – including customized external and internal dimensions, as well as adapted temperature holding times and load capacity.

Our technology makes the use of dry ice superfluous, enabling our customers to use our solutions to make their last mile even safer, more profitable and more sustainable.

Products

Custom-Box

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va-Q-tray M 45

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Efficient food shipping

In today’s world of e-commerce, online food shipping has long been a central component of retail. It is always crucial to deliver products quickly, safely and, above all, as freshly as possible. va-Q-tec offers solutions that have been specially developed to meet these challenges of modern food transport. Our intelligent packaging solutions protect your products and minimise spoilage and loss due to temperature fluctuations.

The va-Q-boxes are characterised by very high insulation performance. Special vacuum insulation panels as all-round inner panelling, which have already proven their worth in the aerospace industry, offer ten times greater insulation performance than conventional insulation materials.

The va-Q-trays are specially designed for the transport of very sensitive foodstuffs. Thanks to their standardised dimensions, these highly efficient flat insulated boxes can be easily integrated into existing logistics processes. Here too, high-tech vacuum insulation panels ensure maximum insulation performance – without any additional energy supply.

In addition to the packaging itself, we also offer comprehensive logistics advice. This allows you to optimise your existing processes with the help of our expertise.

Advantages

Highest level of reliability
Minimum temperature loss and optimal temperature distribution
Space, weight, and energy saving solution
Improved energy balance
Reduced energy consumption and reduction of carbon footprint
Long service life
In-house production and development of the key components (PCM) and systems

Seamless cold chain all the way to the customer

When transporting food, a safe and, above all, uninterrupted cold chain is of the utmost importance. Various standards and legal regulations must be complied with when shipping all types of food, but especially fresh food. Only in this way can safe consumption be guaranteed at all times.

The cold chain is therefore a critical factor in food shipping. It includes all steps from the production site to the consumer, during which the ideal temperature must be kept constant.

The va-Q-tec range of cold chain solutions for foodstuffs ensures that your products not only remain fresh throughout the entire transport process, but also retain their quality.

  • Cooling boxes are ideal for transporting perishable foodstuffs.
  • Temperature monitoring systems provide constantly updated temperature monitoring data during transport.
  • Insulated packaging protects against extreme temperatures and ensures the quality of your goods.

Active vs. passive transport of foodstuffs

There are two main transport methods in food logistics: active transport and passive transport. Both have their specific advantages, which can be utilised depending on the requirements of the products. Active transport uses active cooling techniques with energy consumption to ensure precise temperature control.

Passive transport uses insulating materials to keep the products cool during transport. External energy sources are not used. va-Q-tec relies on this sustainable variant in its logistics products for food transport. High-tech insulation technology now makes it possible to transport even very sensitive foodstuffs in compliance with food regulations.

Sustainability and innovative strength at va-Q-tec

Our cold chain logistics solutions are not only designed for efficiency, but also for sustainability. With innovative technologies and environmentally friendly materials, we help to reduce the ecological footprint of food transport and thus of your company.

References

Together with our partners, we develop sustainable, cost-efficient and safe solutions for the transportation of food over the last mile. Discover on this page how the va-Q-tray helps bakeries to master the challenges of the modern bakery industry and promote the success of your business.

Application Examples

Bakery Raisch
The Raisch bakery, a family-run business from Calw in Baden-Württemberg, has been using va-Q-tray boxes…
Bakery Peter Schmitt​
The “Bakery Peter Schmitt”, a regional, medium-sized family business from Reiterswiesen in Lower Franconia, is…
Kullmanns’s Diner
Kullman’s Diner restaurants located in Würzburg use the innovative transport box va-Q-tray for their catering…

Other business areas of va-Q-tec

In addition to the food industry, va-Q-tec offers comprehensive solutions for various business areas. Our portfolio includes pharmaceutical logistics in the last-mile pharma sector, where we provide special packaging for temperature-sensitive medicines. For the automotive sector, we develop innovative solutions for transport logistics in the automotive industry. We also offer protection and transportation of chemicals under controlled conditions in the chemicals sector.

Find out more about our services and discover how we can master your logistical challenges.