Air Liquide's offer for bakery and pastry products includes food gases as well as technologies, equipment and services for the following applications: Modified Atmosphere Packaging (to eliminate or reduce any product deterioration), chilling (preserving the natural quality, flavour and colour of bakery and pastry products), cryogenic freezing (long-term preservation of products while maintaining their quality and preventing water losses), crust freezing (to increase the slicing efficiency), shaping (innovative shapes), temperature control (to avoid any temperature rise) during mixing, mincing or blending, cold transportation without breaking the cold chain (during processes in the production plant and during transport).