In 2004, American Pasteurization Company (APC) was founded to help food producers enhance food safety without compromising freshness or quality. The food industry’s existing preservation methods (sustained heat, synthetic additives, chemical preservatives) were mostly solving the safety problem while creating a quality problem.
The founders of APC, veterans of the food manufacturing industry, turned to high-pressure pasteurization, a food preservation method that delivers safe, fresh food without heat, chemicals, or synthetic preservatives.
HPP uses cold water pressure to inactivate pathogens including Listeria, E. coli, and Salmonella, without degrading the taste, texture, color, or nutritional profile of the product.
The original mission has not changed: help food and beverage brands bring products to market that are as safe as they are fresh.
APC began with a single HPP system in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the distinction of being the first company in the United States to offer HPP tolling services.
APC rapidly expanded its HPP capacity in the years that followed, added premium food manufacturing to its capabilities, opened a second facility on the West Coast to serve brands distributing nationally, and built the Innovation Center in Milwaukee, a dedicated R&D kitchen and packaging validation facility co-located with operating HPP systems.
Today APC operates nine HPP systems across two SQF-certified facilities, serving brands that range from single-SKU startups running their first pilot to national CPG companies managing millions of pounds annually.
APC’s model minimizes the handoffs that create risk, cost, and delay in food production supply chains.
No other U.S. provider combines premium food manufacturing, high-pressure processing, post-process packaging, and cold-chain coordination within a single facility. That integration lets our customers move from production to pasteurized, packaged, retail-ready product without temperature breaks, inter-facility transfers, or scheduling gaps between production and processing.
Our customers count on us for:
HPP services for food manufacturers looking to outsource safely and efficiently
Clean-label food preservation technology that meets retailer and consumer demands
Turnkey food safety solutions that support scale and brand growth
Many of the people who run APC’s operations today joined the company at or near its founding in 2004. The team handling your product has seen versions of your challenges before (in HPP process optimization, packaging compatibility, regulatory navigation, and supply chain coordination) across two decades and thousands of SKUs.
Their unmatched experience in high-pressure technology has made APC a recognized global leader in HPP.
We form lasting partnerships with food producers. Many have run for a decade or more.
SQF Certified: Both Milwaukee and Sacramento facilities independently audited against Safe Quality Food standards
USDA Organic Certified: Applicable product categories
Founding Member, Cold Pressure Council: The industry organization that promotes HPP standardization and administers the High Pressure Certified® mark
Corporate Office & Innovation Center
2675 N. Mayfair Rd., Suite 680
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Milwaukee Production Plant
2880 North 112th Street, Building E
Milwaukee, WI 53222
Sacramento Production Plant
2335 Del Monte Street
West Sacramento, CA 95691
