PILOT PLANT – AZTI
Name of the infrastructure
Pilot plant: for the development of food products and validation of technologies
Description of the infrastructure
The pilot plant with about 1,000 square meters enables the development of new food products and the validation of new and emerging technologies on a pre-industrial scale. Conceived with a hygienic design that simulates the general production process of the food industry, the equipment and technologies with which the plant has been equipped allow those companies that want to evaluate a new product in the market (either an intermediate food, semi-finished, elaborated, restructured or analogous) or a production line, they can do it without making big. investments.
Available technologies:
- Technologies for the integral development of intermediate, semi-finished, processed food products, restructured foods and the like.
- Conservation processes / technologies.
- Stabilization processes / technologies.
- Decontamination processes / technologies.
- Online control of products and / or processes.
- Automation / robotization for classification.
- Waste and by-products revaluation systems.
What does it offer to companies?
AZTI offers a comprehensive service to the food industry to design, develop and validate functional and nutraceutical foods that incorporate ingredients with health properties, which have been identified through omics studies. Both the functionality of these ingredients in the body as well as the elaboration, processing and conservation techniques that guarantee the functionality in the finished product are taken into account.