As Editor in Chief of Homa’s Food Preservation White Paper, I am proud to reflect on the strategic meaning this publication represents for our community.

Food preservation, for Homa, goes far beyond product performance or technical mission. It is a human value — a pillar that nurtures our ecosystem of partners, professionals, and families who rely on refrigeration not only to store food, but to protect quality of life.

As highlighted in the introductory article (which you can explore here), our role as a global OEM leader in domestic refrigeration is to translate research, engineering, and design into solutions that generate tangible everyday benefits — extending freshness, reducing waste, and building trust at home.

The preview launch at the Canton Fair in October 2025 marked an important milestone. Printed copies distributed to our VIP partners generated extremely positive feedback and a wave of follow-up requests — confirming the relevance of positioning food preservation as a shared strategic language across our industry.

As our CEO Michael Yao writes in his foreword (full version below):

“Food preservation is not a checklist; it is a mindset that connects science, engineering and design.”

A perspective echoed by Anthea Wang, who reminds us that: “Commercial leadership starts with clarity.”

This second White Paper continues a journey of dialogue, insight, and applied innovation — one we were proud to shape once again with the valuable editorial and design support of Studio Volpi, to whom we extend our sincere thanks for accompanying us in this new chapter.

FOREWORD

I am honoured to introduce this new issue of our Industry Perspectives White Paper series, dedicated to the frontiers of food preservation, indeed one of the pillars of Homa’s culture and strategy, and a field where innovation is redefining our future.

For centuries, preservation mainly meant cold storage, salt, acidity or sugar, and a few alternative techniques such as fresh-air drying or smoking. The refrigerator, which revolutionised domestic life in the mid-20th century, remained essentially unchanged for decades, refined in form, yet constant in function. Today, however, a new era is unfolding, where technology, design and sustainabilityconverge to transform the way we preserve food, with a renewed look at the past and a clear vision of the future.

Join us in a fascinating exploration of the new frontiers of food preservation.

Discover how nanotechnologies and high-pressure processing can extend food’s life; see how age-old beliefs, like storing fish on beds of ice, are being challenged by a single, visionary French poissonnier; imagine tasting edible robots or radically rethinking our diets; explore how fermentation is making a remarkable comeback with an innovative twist; and take a sneak preview of what science has in store for the coming decades. Homa’s perspective is also featured in these pages, as we continually strive to offer our customers the most appropriate and relevant solutions in a global, fast-evolving industry landscape.

Once again, we take pride in bringing you some of the most significant and thought-provoking insights shaping both industry and society today. Thanks to Homa’s privileged position at the world’s crossroads of manufacturing, retail and marketing of food preservation appliances, we are able to capture and share trends that truly matter, for us as an industry and for the final consumers.

So enjoy the read. I trust you will find it as interesting and inspiring as creating this issue of our Whitepaper series has been for us, a stimulating journey of discovery.

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