FPDC – Available equipment

Browse equipment client companies can use to develop, process and package foods, beverages or ingredients at the Alberta Food Centre.

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

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