Processing in Miniature

Food and beverage manufacturers can produce test quantities of new products by using their existing production equipment, but this can result in interruptions of the processing schedule for their other products. Another approach is to utilize pilot-plant equipment and scale up the results to production scale. A number of companies offer miniaturized/lab-scale equipment that also can be accurately scaled up to production scale. Among the best known of them are Armfield Ltd. of Ringwood, England (…