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Overview
Hydrolock specializes in the design and manufacture of continuous sterilizers for the food and pharmaceutical industries. With over 40 years of experience, the company offers turnkey production lines for sterilized foods and beverages, ensuring high-quality standards and competitive production costs.

Company History
Founded in the 1970s and previously part of Alstom's food department, Hydrolock became a privately owned company in 2005. It is now part of an industrial group with synergies in manufacturing vessels, electrical cabinets, and chillers.

Product Offerings

Continuous Retort Sterilizers: Provide high temperature/short time sterilization with controlled heat penetration, suitable for beverages, ready meals, vegetables, and more.
Pharmaceutical Sterilizers: Designed for plastic pouches, HDPE, or glass containers, ensuring homogeneous processing and sterilization value control.
Pet Food Sterilizers: Automated solutions for pouches, cans, and trays, reducing production costs and energy consumption.
Versatile Packaging Solutions: Capable of processing various packaging types such as bottles, cans, trays, jars, and pouches with minimal changeover.

Technological Advantages
Hydrolock's sterilizers offer high throughput, full automation, flexibility, food safety, and outstanding organoleptic quality. They are energy-efficient, reducing energy consumption by 35%, operating costs by 55%, sterilization time by 60%, and footprint by 50% compared to batch static retort treatment.

Research and Development
Hydrolock's R&D department is equipped with advanced CAD tools and develops programs using renowned PLCs and software. The laboratory is available for developing recipes and testing new products to determine optimal parameters.

Manufacturing and Assembly
Machines are manufactured and tested in Le Bignon, France, ensuring time-saving re-assembly and start-up on site. Experienced staff provide global support for assembly, commissioning, and customer training.

Maintenance and Support
Hydrolock maintains a stock of spare parts in Nantes, France, ready for global shipment. Remote access to production units is available for diagnostics and support.

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HYDROLOCK, over the world CONTINUOUS STERILIZERS turkey mexico algeriA tunisia pakistan nigeria vietnam make your products stand out Process engineering, R&D, Sterilization systems design & manufacture, Turnkey production lines for sterilized foods & beverages, Maintenance CONTINUOUS STERILIZER

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The most flexible continuous retort DESIGNed FOR your NEEDs FOOD HYDROLOCK continuous retort provides a High Temperature/Short Time sterilization, with a perfect control of the heat penetration, thanks to the homogeneous and smooth agitation. HYDROLOCK sterilizers are recommended for vegetables, ready meals in sauce, soups, rice in all kinds of packaging. The HYDROLOCK process provides an outstanding and repeatable quality with the best organoleptic qualities. A static process is also achievable with a STERIFLEX sterilizer. PETFOOD High throughputs, fully automated solutions for pouches, cans...

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STERILIZATION SYSTEMS CONTINUOUS STERILIZERS The HYDROLOCK family of continuous sterilizers can process all kinds of packagings in medium to large production scales. The unique flexibility and versatility ensures our clients a long term production, with many possibilities for new packaging. The modular design of the machine is evolutionary and can be upgraded upon packaging specificities. Type of machines >1 - ACS >2 - ACB >3 - ACBV OPERATING COSTS Sterilization time Product quality improvement >4 - ACCT >5 - ACP >6 - STERIPILOT >7 - STERIFLEX READY MEALS For average product type compared with...

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PROCESS DEVELOPMENT FACTORY manufacturing SITE ASSEMBLY & START UP Design studies and development of new machines Manufacturing,assembly and mechanical testing of machines Experienced staff of technical supervisors and automation specialists As a specialist in mechanical systems and thermodynamics, HYDROLOCK is supported by a strong engineering department equipped with state of the art CAD tools. Our automation team also develops programs using the most renowned PLC’s and software on the global market. HYDROLOCK’s laboratory is available to develop recipes and brand new products using the HYDROLOCK...

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