When John Jacobson, owner and manager of Universal Cold Storage (UCS), received a request from a customer for high-pressure pasteurization (HPP) services at his facility in Lincoln, Neb., it didn’t take long for his company to realize that HPP was a tool it needed to succeed.
Little did Jacobson know, however, that less than two years later, the sister company created from that first HPP machine — Universal Pasteurization Co. (UPC) — would be receiving its fourth and fifth presses, and building the infrastructure to house more.