Our brand new building houses flexible and dynamic spaces that can be used for testing, training and demonstration:
A process and wastewater treatment hall in the broadest sense and tailored for the entire food industry
A hall for the processing of vegetables and potatoes from harvested to packaged product, to which modular mobile pilots for water treatment can be connected
Storage space at different temperatures
Fermentation space for solid state and (fed) batch fermenters
Analytical and microbiological laboratory
Pilots VEG-i-TEC
Cutting Machine
Brand: KRONEN – GS10-2
Type: Belt cutter with a wide range of cutting blades
Capacity: Avg. 100 kg/h (can go up to 400 kg/h)
Application: Slicing/cutting a wide range of food products in various cuts, mainly within the vegetable and potato processing industry
Washing bath
Brand: KRONEN – GEWA3800V-Plus
Type: Wash bath according to helix principle/propagation and recirculation of water
Capacity: Avg. 100 kg/h (can go up to 400 kg/h)
Application: Washing of (cut) vegetables, potatoes etc. under various conditions (with or without disinfection, purification, etc.). Incl. rinsing with fresh (ice) water.
Centrifuge
Brand: KRONEN – KS-100 Plus
Type: Basket centrifuge (batch)
Capacity: Max. 10 kg/batch (avg. 100 kg/h, can go up to 400 kg/h)
Application: Drying of (cut) vegetables
Multihead weigher
Brand: GKS – CM-B-14 FFW
Type: Multihead weigher for wide range
Capacity: Up to 50 dumps/min, 0-3000 g per dump
Application: weighing of products (vegetables, potatoes, etc.) for both fresh (e.g. lettuce) and frozen, incl. rolling products, for a subsequent packing unit.
Flowpacker
Brand: GKS - Unipack
Type: Vertical flow packer with adjustable gas mixer (MAP packing)
Capacity: Up to 50 bags/min, 0-3000 g per bag
Application: Packing fresh or frozen products
Cooling and freezing tunnel
Brand: Air Liquide – FP1P-Flex
Type: Cryogenic (nitrogen) cooling and freezing tunnel with interchangeable belt
Capacity: Avg. 100 kg/h (can go up to 400 kg/h - depending on product and process settings)
Application: Cooling or freezing of (cut-up) food products, whether blanched, deep-fried or not, etc. Possibility of working with (liquid) coatings/products.
Flexible Blancher
Brand: Spiessens
Type: Flexible blancher usable as band blancher and immersion blancher
Capacity: Avg. 100 kg/h (can go up to 400 kg/h)
Application: Blanching of food products in different conditions (hot water spraying, direct steam contact, underwater) with three adjustable zones (incl. recirculation of water flows). Cooling via air and/or water.
Dryer
Brand: Spiessens
Type: Air dryer
Capacity: Avg. 100 to 150 kg/h
Application: Drying of food products (eq. fries)
Baking Oven
Brand: Marel
Type: Electric band fryer with Teflon band
Capacity: Avg. 100 kg/h (product dependent)
Application: Baking of coated/uncoated/breaded food products
Fermentation and extraction equipment
Climate chambers
Brand: Weisstechnik
Type: PharmaEvent C/1300
Capacity: 3x 500 kg
Application: Performing stability tests with large storage capacity
Application: Controlled scale-up fermentations of various food products; control of temperature, pH, oxygen supply, stirring speed, gas mixture and substrate possible.
Spray Dryer
Brand: BUCHI
Type: Mini Spray Dryer S - 300
Spray Dry gas: Compressed air up to 7 bar
Range: 80 - 1800 L/min
Evaporation capacity: 1,0 L/h water
Supply: 0,1 - 30 mL/min
Oil press
Brand: Kern Kraft
Type: KK Ölprinz
Capacity: 15 kg seeds/h
Application: Cold pressing of all types of seeds
High Pressure Extractor
Brand: Berghof
Type: BR 1000
Capacity: 1 L
Application: Extractions under high pressure up to 200 bar. This can be done under stirring, and reactor can be heated to 300°C. Pressure and temperature are monitored internally.
Advanced analytical equipment
spectrophotometric techniques (UV-VIS, FT-IR) and fluorescence
