The morning sun shines through the glass curtain wall of the factory onto the clean workshop floor, and the metal equipment is shining with a cold luster. In the debugging area of the ply-pack aseptic packaging production line, engineers are whispering about parameters around a fully automatic filling equipment. At this time, a sound of footsteps came from the corridor-a group of five people from the Qatar Airways procurement team, accompanied by Mr. Li, the factory's technical director, walked into the core area of the workshop. Their goal is clear: to find an aseptic packaging production line that meets international aviation hygiene standards for airline meal packaging.
"The sterilization efficiency of this equipment is more than 30% higher than that of traditional solutions." Li pointed to the running intelligent sterilization system and explained its core advantages to customers. The representative of Qatar Airways leaned over to observe the atomized hydrogen peroxide sterilization module on the production line, and then asked: "How to ensure the microbial control of packaging materials before and after filling?" This question directly points to the difficulty of airline meal packaging technology. In fact, ply-pack's solution adopts a double closed-loop design: first purify the environment through dynamic airflow, and then isolate external pollution with nano-scale filter membrane. This technology has been implemented in domestic high-end dairy companies before, and in response to the "low humidity tolerance" requirements of airline meals, the R&D team has specially optimized the volatility parameters of the sterilization medium.
This negotiation not only involves equipment procurement, but also extends to supply chain collaborative innovation. The representative of Qatar Airways proposed that the packaging consumables supplier should be included in the cooperation system to ensure the full-link sterile control from the production line to the onboard dining car. In this regard, the person in charge of the ply-pack supply chain demonstrated the real-time monitoring platform: through the blockchain traceability system, the sterilization batch and transportation temperature and humidity data of each roll of packaging film can be traced back to the specific flight number. "The industry standard of airline food is upgrading from 'safety' to 'zero risk'," an accompanying third-party observer said with emotion, "This deep collaboration may redefine the airline meal supply chain."
In the afternoon, the two sides moved to the experimental workshop. The operator put the simulated airline meal curry chicken into the aseptic packaging production line. The Qatar Airways representative put on gloves and personally tested the compressive strength of the heat seal. When the packaging bag still maintained zero leakage in the simulated high-altitude low-pressure environment, the team leader Ali nodded and smiled: "This is exactly what we need-it can withstand extreme environments without sacrificing the taste of the food."
With the recovery of the global aviation industry, airline meal packaging is becoming a focal battlefield in the field of food safety. The contact between the ply-pack factory and Qatar Airways not only marks that the domestic aseptic packaging production line technology has entered the international first-line camp, but also heralds a new industry trend: airline food packaging will shift from "compliance" to "extreme safety", and the collaborative innovation of technology, supply chain and standards will become the key to breaking the deadlock.
