How to access equipment
When your food, beverage or ingredient company becomes a client at the Alberta Food Centre, you will have access to equipment in our laboratory, culinary kitchen and pilot-scale processing plant. Our experts will show you how to use the right equipment to produce and package your product.
Our equipment can be used for:
- value-added meat, dairy and plant protein products
- bakery items
- confectionary products
- condiments
- soups
- salads
- minimally processed whole foods
- fortified, enriched and enhanced foods
- frozen ready to eat meals
- food ingredients
Find out more and apply to access our services and facilities.
Browse available equipment
Baking
- Bar former in pilot plant
- Bars packaged using the Flow Wrapper Horizontal Packaging Machine
- Baxter Rotating Rack Oven
- Blakeslee DB-80 QT Mixer, American Eagle
- Cookie Forming Machine
- Dough Sheeter – Rhondo Ecostar Reversible
- Dough Sheeter – Simplex
- Despatch BPA 2-125, Proofer
- Tecmaq Bar Former: full unit
- Vemag
Battering, pre-dusting and breading
- Koppens ERT 400 Batter
- Koppens PR 400C Breader
- Koppens PRM 400 MEG Pre-Duster
- Nothum BA-14 Tempura Batter
- Stein DB-4 Drum Breader
Benchtop processing
- Bag sealer (Multivac C200, BOSCH HS-BII)
- Bench Hollymatic Tumbler Gaulin 15MR Laboratory Homogenizer
- Cold Press (Carver Model C)
- Doughpro – dough press
- Environmental Chamber LHU-113
- Groen 20 L Steam-Jacketed Vacuum Kettle
- Hallde VCM-61 Food Processor Taylor 110 Batch Ice Cream Freezer
- Hand Stuffer
- Hobart Mixers
- Italgi Model P9A Pasta Machine
- Label Makers (Toshiba SX5 Thermal)
- Ohtake Noodle Machine
- Stephan Emulsion Mill
- Tube Broiler
- UF RO Membrane Filtration System
Analysis and testing
- Brookfield DU-III Ultra Rheometer
- Centrifuges (Damon CRU-500, Ross MPW-530)
- Colorimeters (Minolta CR-440 and CM-2500C)
- Dough Rheological Analyzer-Chopin Mixolab 2
- Dough Sheeter Bench-top (Rondo Econom)
- Drying Ovens
- Fat Analyzer (FOSS SOXTEC 2043)
- Felix Food Twin Head 3D Printer
- Flat bread crust/tortilla press (EDSS DP200BP)
- High Performance Liquid Chromatograph with Photodiode and Refractive Index Detectors (Agilent 1100)
- Homogenizers (Brinkman PT 10/35 Polytron, Buchi mixer B-400)
- Incubators (Mocon)
- Instron Universal Testing Instrument (Instron 5565)
- Membrane Filtration System (Satorius, 142mm/293mm)
- Microscopes (Zeiss 475057)
- Moisture Analyzers (Satorius MA35 and MA37)
- Muffle Furnace (Thermolyne 1500)
- NearInfrared Analyser (FOSS FoodScan Lab)
- Oxygen/Co2 Permeation Analyzer (Mocon) pH Meters
- Particle Size Analyzer (Cilas 1180)
- Protein/Nitrogen Analyzer (LECO FP528)
- Pope 2" Wiped Film Evaporator
- Rapid Visco Analyzer (Perten 4500)
- Refractometer (ABBE Mark II, Fisher handheld)
- Rotary Evaporator (Buchi 463) Spectrophotometer (Agilent 8453)
- Tecmaq Bar Former
- Texture Analyzer (Texture Technologies and Stable Micro Systems TA.HD Plus)
- Viscometer (Brookfield DV-III Ultra Rheometer, Brookfield Synchro-Lectric)
- Volume Scanner (VolScan profiler 600)
- Water Activity Meters (Aqua Lab series 3 and 4TE)
- Water Purification System (Millipor Direct-Q3UV)
Dry processing
- Anhydryo Spray Dryer – Pilot 55
- Blender/Mixer, Day and O'Hare Ribbon Blender, 6 and 20 ft3
- Dehullers – Forsberg, Satake
- Extruder – Coperion Twin Screw ZSK 26
- Fine Grind Mill – Hosokawa
- Hammer Mill – Fitzpatrick D-6
- Niro Fluidized Bed Dryer
- Pin Mill and Air Classifier
- Proctor and Schwartz Tray Dryer
- Ro-Tap Test Sieve Shaker, Model B
- Sweco Screen Separators (18 and 30")
Freezing
- Aerofreeze Continuous Spiral Freezer
- CES CO2 freezer
Non-thermal high pressure processing
- Hyperbaric 135 HPP unit
Packaging
- Carousel scale and vertical-flow wrapper (Yamato and Matrix)
- Conveyor and Radial Scale System
- Doboy HS-BII Portable Continuous Band Sealer
- In-Line Filling System with Capper and Labeler
- Komet 620A Double Chamber Vacuum Packaging Machine
- L-Bar Sealer
- Matrix Mercury ADW-5105V Verticle Bagging
- Multivac AG500 Vacuum Packager
- Multivac R126 Thermoforming Rollstock unit (for raw product only)
- Multivac T200 Semi-automatic Tray Sealer
- Pre-made pouch packaging machine (Swifty Jr)
- Sipromac 620A Double Chamber Vacuum Packaging Machine
- ULMA TR Supra 420x300 Thermoforming Rollstock unit (for ready-to-eat product only)
- XTRAVAC 450A Flow Wrapper
Thermal processing
- Blentech Steamtherm Blending Cooker
- Enviro-Pak CVU-650E Smokehouse
- Enviro-Pak MP-2000 Meat Fermentation Chamber
- Fessmann T1900 HD 629 Smokehouse
- Koppens BR300/600 Continuous Deep Fryer
- Koppens HLT 6000/600 Continuous Oven
Wet processing
- 2500L CB Processing Tank
- All-Fill Auger Filler
- APV Pasteurizer-High Temperature Short Time
- Basket centrifuge
- Blentech Kettle (CO2 and Oil jacketed)
- Brown Pulper/Finisher – Screw and Paddle
- CES CO2 Blast Freezer
- Crepaco 1200 L Multi Purpose Processing Vat
- Decanter Centrifuge
- Disc-stack centrifuge
- Filter Press, Star System
- Gaulin M3 Homogenizer
- Hamilton 80 L Kettle
- Hamilton SA, 200 L Steam Jacketed Kettle
- Hamilton Steam Jacketed 600 L Pressure Kettle
- Kettle Line
- Lee 20 L Agitated Kettles
- Omcan K15 Bowl Chopper
- Paddle mixers, various sizes
- Powder Disperser
- Processing Vessels, Alfa Laval, 200 and 400 L, Jacketed
- Sam – 400 L Agitated Steam Jacketed Kettle
- Seprotech Reverse Osmosis Membrane Separation System
- Wiped Film Evaporator Pfaudler – 4 ft2
Forming and stuffing
- Bridge Titan Croquette and Meatball Former
- Formax PFM-6 Former
- Handtmann VF80 Stuffer
- Hollymatic Super Patty Machine
- Piston Stuffer
- Vemag HP 25 E Stuffer and bar forming unit
- Z-linker
Injecting and tenderizing
- Biro Rotary Blade Tenderizer
- Multi-needle brine injector Günther, versatile for injection Bone-In/Boneless products with optional tenderizing needles
- Tenderstar Needle/Blade Tenderizer
Mixing and tumbling
- AMFEC Double Paddle Vacuum Mixer/Blender
- AMFEC 175 Vacuum Tumbler
- Challenge® RMF MM-03 Vacuum Meat Massager
- Custom Stainless CDB-1232 Double Paddle Blender/Cooker
- Daniels DVS 250 Röschermatic TU-250 Vacuum Tumbler
- Daniels DMX-QUAD 100 Mixer
Reducing size
- Biro 3334 Band Saw
- Hobart MG1532-1 Meat Mixer/Grinder
- K & G Wetter AW 114 Grinder
- Rotoclaw Jr Block Breaker
- Seydelmann K64-AC8-VA Bowl Cutter
- Stephan Microcut MC15 Meat Emulsifying Machine
- TREIF Husky-CE Dicer for portion-cutting operations
- Urschel Labs 3600 w/Feed Screw Comitrol Size Reducer
- Weber® CCS 305 UB Slicer
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Contact
Connect with the Alberta Food Centre:
Hours: 8:15 am to 4:30 pm (open Monday to Friday, closed statutory holidays)
Phone: 780-986-4793
Toll free: 310-0000 before the phone number (in Alberta)
Email: [email protected]
Address:
Alberta Food Centre
6309 45 Street
Leduc, Alberta T9E 7C5