Universal Pasteurization Co., Lincoln, Neb., announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, UPC Texas, LLC, Dallas, Texas, acquired the assets of Global Leading Foods, a Coppell, Texas-based premier supplier of high-pressure processing (HPP) services. The facility will provide additional HPP capacity for both current and prospective customers, and its location is strategic to Universal’s geographic expansion plans to better serve the growing market for HPP outsourcing.
“We are extremely pleased to be able to add a Dallas-area location to our HPP service footprint,” says Jeff Barnard, president of Universal Pasteurization. “Dallas is a center of food manufacturing activity as well as a prime distribution hub. HPP offers substantial benefits to processors, retailers and consumers alike, however the equipment acquisition costs and batch operational challenges make its implementation a challenge for many. Through our outsourcing approach, we remove these barriers by offering a usage-based model while providing redundancy both of HPP equipment and HPP facilities. We also offer flexibility through many value-added services. This offers all companies, both large and small, access to this sophisticated technology.“