Equipment
Some in-house specialized equipment and capacity
- Canning line with four retorts and two boilers (diesel and electric for small and big batches)
- Angelus high-speed seamer and MB1 seamer
- Lye peeling bath
- Bakery line to do bread, rolls, pastry sheeting including multi-deck ovens
- Meat processing line including bowl cutter, sausage filler, smoker/cooker, stitch pumper
- Modified atmosphere packing capacity
- Various mills
- Dairy equipment
- Spray-dryer
- Pan coater
- Slicing and dicing capacity (Usrchell Model OV)
- Hunter LAB colorimeter
- Rheology measurement: Brookefield and Bostwick
- Instron for texture analysis
- Gas chromatograph (MS) – miscellaneous analyses (including fatty acid profile)
- Liquid chromatograph (incl. UV/Vis, FLD and DA detectors) – miscellaneous analyses
- UV/Vis spectrophotometer with Peltier heating
- Differential scanning calorimeter (for melting curve studies)
- Spectrofluorimeter for antioxidant studies
- Rancimat for measuring oxidative rancidity of fats and oils
- Moisture analysis using (Karl Fischer, water activity, air oven. Infra-red)
- Virtis freeze-drier (12kg condenser capacity) and Bench-top freezedrier
- Research microscope with photography recording unit and PC
- Kjeldahl semi-automated protein determination system
- Soxhlet semi-automated system for crude fat determination
- FOS Dietary fibre analyser
- Fibretec analysis (semi-automated) for crude fibre determination
- Bench-top and high-speed centrifuges (refrigerated)
- Gerber centrifuge for milk fat analysis
- Envinonmental cabinets and rooms for shelf-life studies
- Nitrogen analyzer for protein determination
- Micro-brewery
- Comitrol pulper
- Micro-NIR analyser
- Steam Jet Cooker (DC Norris, UK)
- Vitek semi-automated microbiology plate reader
- Oil press (including nut and seed pressing capacity)
- Full chocolate line (cocoa mass to finished product)
- Sugar confectionery line
- Rheometer and Rapid Visco-analyser
