Nothing is more satisfying than seeing your initial idea realized in a new product or process
With 30 years of ingredient, product, and process experience we provide total solutions for product and process development.
A total solution for process development
- Concept design
- Validation through testing and/or computer simulations
- Basic to detail engineering,
- Procurement of equipment
- Installation and start-up
A total solution for product development
- Define technical product specifications
- Ingredient and supplier selection
- Product formulation
- Optimal process route for product fabrication
- Label declaration, nutritional value
Of course, we can also assist in one of these aspects in support of your in-house team!
We are a strong believer in using computer simulation to support the development of new products and processes. It increases your chance of success, speeds up the development process, and allows validation of the concept before any investment for production is made. Our capabilities include computational fluid mechanics, mechatronics concept design modelling, multi-physics modelling and chemical reaction modelling.
For specific process development solutions in oils & fats processing we would like refer you to our colleagues at Oil Processing Experts. When it comes to expertise and experience in Oil & Fats no one is better suited to create solutions for you !
Some examples of running and finished projects:
Design and modelling of a bottle filling process
The objective was to fully test, validate and optimize a process including all mechanical, electrical and logic aspects virtually before committing to a final design for implementation.
If you are interested, watch the full length (10 minutes) version in 4K on YouTube for more details
Turn key pilot plant for a new liquid process
The customer wanted to develop a new process and build a pilot plant before scale-up. We executed everything from the process principles, basic engineering up to construction of the pilot plant including the design and programming of the plant automation (PLC) with remote monitoring capabilities.
We also handled the start-up and testing with this installation.
Product optimization
Using X-ray tomography to monitor the development of porosity, connectivity, pore size distribution, etc. in a piece of dough during the proofing and baking process.
With this information we can optimize the product formulation as well as the oven conditions to give us that perfect loaf we are looking for!
3D Food printing
We developed a large volume 3D food printer to print, for example, fat and sugar based ingredients. The printer is based on fast and accurate continuous extrusion, in stead of the small volume syringe type extruders commonly used in foods. This allows the user to print large volumes or large series quickly and efficiently by eliminating the need to refill syringes.
A few other examples were we contributed:
- Development of low salt, sugar, and/or fat products
- Redesign of a cream cheese process to prevent out-of-spec product
- Development of pyramid tea bags
- Optimization of ice cream extrusion
- Processing and application development for new edible oil types
- etc. etc.