2004: Claranor pioneer in industrialization of Pulsed Light packaging sterilization
In 2004, Claranor’s founder anticipates the need of avoiding chemicals in the food industry and offers “the light that purifies”.
After several years of R&D, Claranor focuses on the packaging decontamination, with the promise of a process showing proven microbiological efficiency, chemical free, compact, cost efficient, with low energy consumption. The track record is now >500 units installed in >50 countries, and a strong experience gathered by a well-established pluri-disciplinary team of microbiologists, engineers, field technicians, project managers, customer service staff, and all related support, 40 people in total.
Claranor now offers decontamination solutions for almost every kind of packaging: cap, sport cap, cup, tray, bucket and lid, film and, more recently on metal cans.
Pulsed Light vs UV-C
During that time, Claranor had to often compete against conventional UVC technologies. Claranor lab and the associate scientific lab of INRAE performed a huge load of work to compare UVC and Pulsed Light, evaluate the difference in sterilizing efficiency, and get awareness on costs.
In 2020, customers asked Claranor to offer UVC systems, understanding that all abilities were present in the company to offer, design, manufacture, install, start-up them and assess their decontamination performance.
