Test Centers for Food and Petfood Processing

Test Center for Food and Petfood Applications

Discover our test lab capabilities for advanced testing of any food and petfood processing application.

Test Capabilities for Various Food and Petfood Processing Application

Coperion provides test labs for feeding and extrusion applications, food components and conveying systems. These test labs are the ideal platform for advanced testing of any challenge in a production plant, such as product behavior, new formulations, throughput rates or food safety standards.

Next to the test labs are our laboratories, in which our engineers have access to numerous analysis options to evaluate product quality.

FEEDING & EXTRUSION

Test labs in Stuttgart (D), Niederlenz (CH), Sewell (USA), Nanjing (CN)
Test lab specially equipped for food and pet food requirements in Stuttgart (D)
All feeding equipment available, from volumetric feeders, loss-in-weight feeders, weigh belt feeders and low-rate micro-ingredient feeders to food pelletizing systems
A total of 30 extrusion systems permanently available for testing – from laboratory extruder ZSK 18 MEGAlab to ZSK 70
Throughputs ranging from 1 kg/h to 2 t/h
Laboratories for real-time analyses of product quality

Test Center for Food and Petfood Components and Conveying

FOOD COMPONENTS & CONVEYING

Test labs in Weingarten (D), Niederlenz (CH), Salina (USA) and Nanjing (CN)
Several conveying systems for dilute phase and dense phase conveying
More than 50 conveying, blending and separating systems for testing bulk solid properties, such as flow functions, conveying factors, filtration data, wall friction, time and moisture affects, particle shape, size and critical dimensions
Archive with more than 10,000 product samples
Laboratories for fast analysis of product characteristics and behavior

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY BULK SOLIDS INNOVATION CENTER

Adjacent to Coperion K-Tron Salina
Partnership consisting of Kansas State University, several government agencies and private companies including Coperion K-Tron
Full scale testing and development of bulk solids behavior
Full scale bulk solids test bay – full scale systems to include: vacuum and pressure dilute phase, vacuum sequencing, vacuum and pressure vessel dense phase, rotary valve dense phase, batch weighing, silo zone blender, gravity flow, air filtration, feeding, mixing and silo storage
Material properties test lab – bulk solid and particle properties will be evaluated and modeled in a test bench environment
Research areas – five laboratories for university and industry sponsored research
Training/education center conference and lecture rooms