Research and Development Facilities
APV
offers well-equipped development facilities for the industries in
which we are active at various locations around the world. Here,
you can conduct process trials secure in the knowledge that you are
working in a totally confidential environment.
Facilities are available for :
- Process and product development
- Testing and application of plant and machinery
- Food analysis
- Training and education
- Literature reviews and reports
Our processing facilities are equipped for common processes including:
- standardisation
- homogenisation
- aseptic processing and filling
- evaporation
- spray drying
- Spin Flash drying
- fluid bed processes
- agglomeration & granulation
- spray cooling
- distillation
- mixing and blending
- heat transfer
- fluid handling
- membrane processes
- infusion & injection
- pasteurisation
The equipment available at the development facilities include:
- membrane filtration processes (reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration and microfiltration)
- cheesemaking equipment
- direct steam injection/steam infusion
- plate, tubular and scraped-surface heat exchangers
- aseptic and non-aseptic filling machines
- valves and pumps
- dryers (spray dryers, Spin FlashTM, spray cooler)
- dearators
- evaporators (tubular, plate)
- fluid beds (dryers, agglomerators)
- granulation
- paradry TM
- homogenisers
- product analysis laboratories
Our Development Centres and the facilities they offer are listed below. The combination of available equipment, engineering resource and skilled process know-how assists the development process and increases the probability of success when implemented on a commercial scale.
Europe
- APV Silkeborg Innovation Centre, Denmark Development and testing of new processes and equipment for the dairy and liquid food industries.
- Wantage, UK. Test facility for APV's unique Ohmic heating system APV and Carnaud Metalbox have co-operated in a joint installation.
- APV, Evreux, France. Test centre for drying.
Americas
- APV, Tonawanda,USA. Development and test centre for heat transfer, drying and distillation.
- APV, Homogeniser Division, Wilmington, USA. A wide range of homogenisation equipment is available including hyper homogenisers for pressures up to 1,500 bar. In addition, APV locations in Albertslund, Denmark offer a broad range of equipment for testing.
- APV, Lake Mills, USA. A wide range of liquid food process equipment is available at the Lake Mills test centre.
- APV, Goldsboro, USA. Development and test centre for plate heat exchangers and plate evaporators.
Asia Pacific
- Singapore. Test centre for liquid food processes, in collaboration with SISIR.
- Tokyo, Japan. Test centre for drying.
- Melbourne, Australia. Test centre for evaporation and drying.
