Competition is proving to be a powerful driver for innovation and expanded possibilities for high-pressure processing (HPP) of solid and liquid foods. Flow Technologies was the only supplier of HPP presses throughout the technology’s first decade of commercial food applications, but after Flow spun off the food unit as Avure Technologies in the early 2000s, at least three additional HPP suppliers have joined the fray. Among them is Multivac GmbH, the packaging machinery manufacturer that forged a partnership last year with Uhde High Pressure Technologies, a business unit of ThyssenKrupp Group. Effective packaging remains a challenge, and Multivac has stepped outside its vacuum-pack comfort zone to develop modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) that can survive vessel pressures of up to 6,000 bar (87,000psi).2