FPDC – Available equipment

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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