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Food & Ingredients

Improve the competitiveness of your food and ingredients products. Choose POS Pilot Plant as your product development partner, and you'll benefit from resources and expertise such as:

  • Ingredient selection and compatibility testing
  • Product formulations and modifications
  • Product and process development and optimization
  • Formulation and cost optimization
  • Experimental design and statistical analysis
  • Product standardization
  • Analytical methodology development
  • HACCP protocols and GMP plans

We provide the facility and processing operations to match your food and ingredients needs:

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  Processing Operations

Facility

Processing Operations

POS offers a range of processing options unavailable anywhere else under one roof:

Extraction (solvent or aqueous)

Extractors: Heinkel inverting basket centrifuge, bench & pilot scale Crown solvent extractors, Soxhlet extractors of various sizes
Desolventizers for solids and liquids: De Laval scraped surface evaporator, rising film evaporator, Littleford vacuum mixer dryer, down draft desolventizer
Dryers: Spray, vacuum tray, fluidized bed, convection, drum, ring, tunnel and freeze dryer
Mills: hammer, pin, flaking, cracking, disc, Szego, colloid, Fitzpatrick

Fractionation

Centrifuges: Alfa Laval S-194, Westfalia SA-7 and SA-14, bench scale CentriPeel
Filters and screens: Plate and frame filters, pressure leaf filters, stainless steel screens
Winterization: Vessels for solvent and non-solvent from bench scale to 4,000 L
Edible oil deodorizers: Glass and stainless steel bench scale, 250 kg/hr continuous, 400 L batch

Purification

Chromatography: CPC unit (centrifugal partitioning chromatograph) and pilot scale HPLC for ultra pure natural compounds
Ultrafiltration (various module types available)

Modification (enzyme and chemical)

Reactors: Various sizes from bench scale to 2,600 L, full vacuum, pressure, high temperature

Information on more equipment at POS Pilot Plant can be found here.

POS continually updates its equipment. Please contact us with specific requests.

Photos of processing areas and equipment for custom manufacturing and product development.
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