LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Universal Pure Holdings LLC (“Universal Pure”), a portfolio company of Aurora Capital Partners, today announced it has acquired the High Pressure Processing (HPP) assets of Dora’s Naturals (“Dora’s”). Details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Universal Pure is the largest independent provider of High Pressure Processing (HPP) food safety and product quality services in North America. With this acquisition, the company now operates 22 HPP machines across its seven locations. The transaction will provide Universal Pure with additional capacity to continue its expansion in the Northeast region.
Dora’s has served the food and beverage industry in the New York metropolitan area for over 25 years, providing distribution and processing services. By consolidating HPP resources with Universal Pure, Dora’s will focus on its core business of sourcing and distributing healthy, natural products for its longstanding customer base.
“We are very excited to welcome and continue the tradition of high-quality service to Dora’s HPP customers. We are also eager to enhance our HPP capacity within the Northeast region of the United States.” said Frank Jimenez, Universal Pure CEO.
CEO of Dora’s, Cyrus Schwartz added “While exiting the HPP business is bittersweet, this transaction allows us to further focus our energies and resources on our core distribution business. We are confident that Universal Pure will continue to provide excellent service to all our customers.”
In addition to HPP services, Universal Pure continues to provide cold storage and a variety of value-added cold chain solutions to leading food and beverage manufacturers and brands across the US.
