Pilot plant – your tool box
Our extensive range of food and drink pilot plant facilities
can help you develop new products, analyse existing
processes, and evaluate ideas for the future. As well as
commissioning work from us, the facilities are also available
for you to hire for confidential trials or development work.
We asked Sarah Chapman to run through what is available.
"We have retorts, pasteurisation tanks and cooking and
cooling vessels for heat processing activities, as well as hot air
and freeze driers, air blast chillers and freezers. We also have
equipment for preparing ingredients for a wide range of
drinks including soft, fruit based and carbonated, flavoured
beverages as well as facilities for packing and processing
drinks. This includes drinks carbonators and a new Armfield
HTST/UHT flash pasteuriser. This complements our
specialised equipment for malting and brewing, as well as for
riddling and tirage bottling of wine.
Our facilities for the cereals sector include mixers, moulders
and ovens covering a range of bakery products as well as
grain processing facilities, suitable for cereals in quantities of a
few grams up to many kilograms.
Packaging is as important as product and process; we have
equipment for packing into a range of materials, including
cans, glass, pouches and trays, as well as for vacuum and
modified atmosphere packing. This is backed up by packaging
strength and integrity testing facilities, and temperature
controlled rooms for storage in a variety of conditions.
If there is equipment that we don't have that you would like
to trial, then we are more than happy to accommodate it in
our facilities."
Sarah Chapman
+44(0)1386 842212
sarah.chapman@campdenbri.co.uk