PLANT BASED DAIRY ALTERNATIVES 2021
SPX FLOW
Remote trials and testing to keep dairy and plant-based
innovation moving
With the ongoing challenges and restrictions resulting
from the global pandemic, SPX FLOWhas
put in place secure, remote procedures to
procure raw materials and conduct trials on behalf of its
customers, sharing results and shipping samples of products
to customer sites on completion of tests. This means
that even with the current travel restrictions, producers can
continue to innovate and gain competitive edge with new
product introductions and improvement programs.
“SPX FLOW Innovation Center at ENIL, the French National
Dairy School, offers customers superb trialing and testing facilities
with the support of some of the world’s leading experts,”
says Pranav Shah, Process Category Director, Fresh Dairy and
Plant-based. “Even if travel to the center is not possible, SPX
FLOW is equipped to support our customers virtually to ensure
their dairy products get to market safely and quickly.”
The SPX FLOW Innovation Center at ENIL offers extensive
testing capability to optimize processes and products
and is equipped with state-of-the-art technology supported
by leading process and automation engineers. It combines
expertise from ENIL and SPX FLOW within a center that is
specifically designed to enhance fresh dairy products (FDP)
and create new innovative dairy or plant-based products.
The center is equipped to handle a wide range of FDP
applications including yogurts, fresh cheese, fermented
milks, desserts, probiotic drinks, and other innovative products.
Situated within the ENIL campus, the center has access
to the school’s own dairy for milk supplies. It incorporates
a small scale, multi-purpose fermentation plant that
can be used to produce and test a full range of fresh dairy
products produced from fresh milk and its constituents or
plant-based alternatives in liquid or solid form. A highly
flexible solution, the single plant can create a wide variety
of premium products with superb texture and mouthfeel,
while minimizing waste and cost.
The ENIL site also incorporates the Cheasly small scale
cheese processing line. The Cheasly process uses milk protein
concentrate (MPC) powder making it independent of
local milk quantity, quality, or price. It can produce a wide
range of high quality, tasty soft and semi-hard cheeses in
small quantities, making it ideal to create, develop or grow
markets. Without reliance on local milk quality, producers
can be assured of consistent quality. The Cheasly process
line has no milk processing, cheese vats, draining or whey
production, making it a high yield, highly cost-effective
cheese production method.
A new video, based at the ENIL Innovation Center, provides
insight into the services and processes customers
make of on a regular basis (www.spxflow.com/capabilities/
innovation-centers).
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