Air Liquide's offer for dairy and cheese industry 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 dairy products), cryogenic freezing (long-term preservation of products while maintaining their quality and preventing water losses), crust freezing (to increase the slicing efficiency), IQF Individual Quick Freezing of small, fragile or sticky products, shaping (innovative shapes), foaming dairy products, inerting and deoxygenation (to protect liquid and solid foodstuffs against any alteration of their properties), cryocrystallization (to obtain fully stable powder products at ambient temperatures), pH control (milk standardisation), cold transportation without breaking the cold chain (during processes in the production plant and during transport).