Nutritional powders

A truly fulfilling product

Can you imagine anything more important than providing infants and elderly with safe nutrition? Our expertise in powder properties, recipe handling and processing alongside our extensive food safety measures, ensures your nutritional powders always comply to the highest possible quality standards – something consumers are paying more and more attention to.

Healthy growth for babies – and producers

Demand for baby food powders is growing very fast, driven by consumer concerns over food safety and hygiene, and a desire for options that are convenient, but still deliver excellent nutrition. Join us for an insight into the factors behind the trend, and the opportunities being created for producers.

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Alter Farmacia grows with infant formula

When Alter Farmacia decided to build a new infant formula plant for their Nutribén brand, they wanted to partner with someone who could not only build a highly automated modern plant, but also teach them how to use it best. That was the beginning of a prosperous partnership between us and them.

Common powder mixing challenges – and how to solve them

If you are experiencing foaming, lumping or clogging of your powder, and can’t seem to resolve the problem, read this article. It explains why it happens and provides solutions to these problems.

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Faster and easier cleaning with Air Jet

Powder sticks everywhere, not least in a mixer. With many recipes and changeovers, cleaning becomes a hassle. Tetra Pak’s new Air Cleaning System reduces your cleaning time by up to one hour, while minimising risk of contaminations.

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Industry’s most hygienic and traceable powder handling

Increasing hygiene specifications and growing consumer concerns about contamination risk – especially for sensitive powder products like infant formula – mean producers are under more pressure than ever to secure the safety of their products.

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Prolong your equipment’s life with upgrades

Answering to new consumer demands with new product launches, you suddenly might feel that your powder plant lacks capacity. But investing in a whole new plant is a huge and costly undertaking. Luckily ¬– in many cases an upgrade can be sufficient.

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Build your optimal end to end powder handling line

Deep dive into our equipment’s features and key benefits, and learn how you can handle infant formula, baby cereal and flavoured milk on the same powder handling line – from bag tipping to conveying and packing, with full automation and traceability.

Integrated food solutions for powder

Powder plants are huge, given the nature of the process, but every tiniest detail is controlled – from raw material intake and standardisation, via cutting edge filtration, evaporation, and spray drying, all the way to packaging. Have a closer look!

Integrated food solutions for powder

Five tricky powders and tips on handling them

Beware of these five powders! The challenge could be that they are sensitive to segregation, difficult to convey or tip, extremely sticky or added to a recipe in tiny amounts. But there are solutions! Here we share tips on how to handle and mix even the most challenging powders.

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Five secrets of success in powder mixing

Successful mixing is combining different powders together in a mixing chamber to create a homogenous product. It sounds easy – but it’s not. In this guide we share five tips that you as a producer of powdered food products may not be aware of.

Behind the scenes at Synlait’s flagship

It took a little over a year to install the 10,000 pieces of equipment that form Synlait Pōkeno’s state-of-the-art nutritional manufacturing facility in New Zealand. The spray dryer stands as tall as a 10-storey apartment building and can produce up to 45,000 metric tonnes of powder each year, including infant formula base powder, infant grade whole milk powder and skim milk powder.

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Best-practice lines for baby food and infant formula

Continuous line

This line handles the production of smooth to small particulate purées. It allows you to produce a broad range of products – from smooth fruit purées to purées with spaghetti pieces – that are wholesome and have higher nutritional value and fresh taste and colour. The recipe-specific shear rate in mixing and optimized heat treatment achieves desired product characteristics with high production efficiency. Our line enables safe production with exceptional quality, efficiency and flexibility.

Continuous particulate line

This line handles particles up to Ø25 mm with excellent particle integrity. It allows you to produce a greater variety of products – from smooth fruit purées to purées with beef and potatoes – that are wholesome and have higher nutritional value and fresh taste and colour. Gentle processing prevents the breakdown of particle shape and maintains even distribution. The recipe specific shear rate in mixing and temperature program achieves the desired product characteristics. Our line enables safe production solutions with exceptional versatility, quality and efficiency.

Continuous ready-to-drink line

This line enables the production of liquid ready-to-drink infant formula. It meets demands for safe, convenient infant formula with higher nutritional value and fresh taste and colour. It ensures accurate and consistent raw ingredient dosing. And it minimizes heat load for maximized nutritional value with secure bacterial reduction. Our line enables uncompromised food safety, high quality and production efficiency.

Continuous infant formula line - powder to powder

This line enables the production of powdered infant formula, from recombined milk and powder ingredients. It allows you to produce with high dry matter milk recombination for maximum production efficiency. It ensures accurate and consistent raw ingredient dosing. And it minimizes heat load for maximized nutritional value with the highest bacterial reduction before drying. It achieves desired powder properties at the targeted moisture level. Our line enables uncompromised food safety and maximized quality and efficiency.

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