Process development

Feed Innovation Services is experienced and has up-to-date know-how with regard to the following processes:

  • Conditioning
  • Heat/moisture flow in particles, residence time, diffusion
  • Pelleting
  • Interaction with particle size distribution and quality parameters like hardness and durability, nutritional properties
  • Expander treatment
  • Heat/moisture/shear, interaction process and ingredient properties, quality final product
  • Extrusion (double, single screw for pet food & aqua feed production)
  • Heat/moisture/shear, interactions between process and ingredient properties, quality of the final product
  • Extrusion (low-shear)
  • Pasta, enzymes
  • Spheronising/Marumerising
  • Aquafeed, enzymes, bio-active ingredients
  • Injection moulding
  • Injection moulding of organic ingredients
  • Toasting/heat treatments
  • Inactivation of ANFs (Anti Nutritional Factors)
    Product development
    Interaction with nutritional parameters
  • Fluid bed agglomeration, drying and coating
  • Enzyme technology
    Improvement of rheological properties
  • High shear mixer granulation & coating
  • Enzyme technology
    Improvement of rheological properties
  • Mixing (solid/liquid, solid/solid)
  • Performance measurements mixers
    Measurements/model calculations homogenity active ingredients in mixtures
  • Drying (fluid-bed, band)
  • Enzymes, fine chemicals
    Cattle feed
    Treats
  • Slaughter processes
  • Interaction processing and slaughter quality of final product
    Hygienic quality before, during and after slaughter
  • Decontamination techniques
  • Liquid
    Heat treatments
  • (Bio-)chemical technology
  • Reactor technology
    Enzymatic processing of ingredients
    Enzyme technology
  • Grinding
  • Hammer mills (aqua)
    Roller mills
    Particle size distribution

Should you have any questions, remarks or suggestions, please contact Mr. Alex Fitié at our head office, by telephone: (+31) 317 465570 or e-mail.


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