Food pilot plant From February 2015 newsletter

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



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