TECHNOLOGY & EXTRUSION CENTER FOR THE FOOD INDUSTRY

In a food-grade & confidential environment, new recipes and products can be tested, developed and evaluated for texture, bite, taste
and shape consistency.

Extrucenter offers you fully equipped facilities to mix & blend ingredients, to pre-heat them, to cook them and finally to extrude them.
Different colors and or flavors can be added before or during extrusion depending on your recipe. Of course our skilled staff of
extrusion and confectionery engineers with hands-on experience will be at your disposal.

Using our unique twin-screw counter-rotating cooking lab extruder all kinds of licorice, fruit gum and fruit snacks can be made.
Our test center also has a lab-size cooling belt and cutting machine, so samples can be made and cut to size for (consumer) tests.

Before the second half of 2011 our test center will be upgraded with the latest twin screw co-and-counter rotating labsize forming extruder and a new model counter-rotating labsize cooking extruder, both unique in its kind. The forming extruder is ideal for testing different recipes of chewy candy and chewing gum, fudge and caramel. In combination with the cooking extruder, center filled products can also be made.

The products will get their final shape by going through one of our dies. We have standard shape dies in our test center. Special tailor-made dies for your products can be developed on request.

Using our Extrucenter will bring you the following benefits:

- Both our lab extruders have a limited output: 10- 40 kg and max. 50kg for the combination of both extruders.

- You do not need large amounts of slurry for testing.

- Because our test center can be rented per day for as long as a test will take, the costs of your development are limited.

- Our test center is ready for use, so quick action can be realised, achieving tight dead lines.

- Extrufood is very flexible and can customize the process or parts of it, just to be sure that our customers meet their requirements