New business opportunities

Given the rapid increase in consumer demand for non-dairy proteins, maybe it’s time to explore new business opportunities in plant-based proteins or fermented ingredients? Plant-based proteins (e.g. pea or canola protein) are increasingly being used in manufactured foods like biscuits in place of dairy proteins, and fermented ingredients are becoming popular to produce dairy protein with micro-organisms, protein from biomass or from novel ingredients like oligosaccharides. All these avenues offer good potential for profitable expansion.

If you’re interested in entering the market for plant-based proteins, work with us to devise the best production process, and minimise your energy use without jeopardising the quality of your end product.

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The PDC offers you:

  • Expertise on process performance and feasibility
  • Savings on product development costs
  • Better product quality
  • More efficient use of raw ingredients and less waste
  • Greater knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of your ingredients
     

Here are some examples of what we can help you achieve:

  • Develop and test new products and processes
  • Improve and optimise existing products
  • Optimise performance
  • Produce application samples
  • Explore new food types (e.g. plant-based proteins)

 

 

 

 

powder equipment

Reliable product trials that move your business forward

Whether you’re making B2B products like flour or skimmed milk powder for the global food manufacturing industry, or B2C formulated powders for athletes, infants or the elderly, our specialised Product Development Centres in the Netherlands and France are here to support you.

 

The following equipment is available for testing:

  • Tipping & discharging
  • Pneumatic conveying
  • Dosing
  • Sifting
  • Mixing
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Built upon 60 years of power handling knowledge

Our experts can help you adapt product recipes for new markets, find smarter processing solutions, or simply satisfy consumer desire for new taste experiences. The laboratory offers powder analysis of:

  • Powder rheology
  • Flowability
  • Permeability
  • Compressibility
  • Porosity
  • Dispersibility
  • Fragility index (breakage measurement)
  • Mixing (homogeneity measurement

 

Powder solutions Gorredijk, the Netherlands

Given the rapid increase in consumer demand for non-dairy proteins, maybe it’s time to explore new business opportunities in plant-based proteins or fermented ingredients?

 

Plant-based proteins (e.g. pea or canola protein) are increasingly being used in manufactured foods like biscuits in place of dairy proteins, and fermented ingredients are becoming popular to produce dairy protein with micro-organisms, protein from biomass or from novel ingredients like oligosaccharides. All these avenues offer good potential for profitable expansion.

 

If you’re interested in entering the market for plant-based proteins, work with us to devise the best production process, and minimise your energy use without jeopardising the quality of your end product.

 

View video to find out more

Powder solutions Gorredijk, the Netherlands

Given the rapid increase in consumer demand for non-dairy proteins, maybe it’s time to explore new business opportunities in plant-based proteins or fermented ingredients?

 

Plant-based proteins (e.g. pea or canola protein) are increasingly being used in manufactured foods like biscuits in place of dairy proteins, and fermented ingredients are becoming popular to produce dairy protein with micro-organisms, protein from biomass or from novel ingredients like oligosaccharides. All these avenues offer good potential for profitable expansion.

 

If you’re interested in entering the market for plant-based proteins, work with us to devise the best production process, and minimise your energy use without jeopardising the quality of your end product.

 

View video to find out more

Powder Handling Solutions, Cholet, France

We use process functions as modules for reproducing real-life situations with machine combinations for testing dosing, sifting, mixing, conveying and discharging. In addition, our laboratory offers analyses of e.g. particles size distribution, moisture measurement, rheological analysis and more.

 

View video to find out more

Powder Handling Solutions, Cholet, France

We use process functions as modules for reproducing real-life situations with machine combinations for testing dosing, sifting, mixing, conveying and discharging. In addition, our laboratory offers analyses of e.g. particles size distribution, moisture measurement, rheological analysis and more.

 

View video to find out more

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Discover our test equipment and lab for powder solutions

We offer various spray driers for you to test, and can create line solutions with spray dryers as the core technology. These may include e.g. homogenisers, heat treatment, mixers and filtration units. Our laboratory provides all necessary analyses to control the process during the trial, and analyse powder samples.
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Built upon 60 years of powder handling knowledge

Explore how our Product Development Centre in Cholet, France can support your powder product development - from testing and trials to scaling up production. With access to laboratory analyses, pilot plant equipment, expert guidance, and a wide range of application capabilities, you’ll find everything you need to turn ideas into validated, scalable, cost-efficient solutions.

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At our Mixing Product Development Centre (PDC), we can help you choose the right mixing technology, so you’ll always get high-quality results.