extrusion | Food Engineering

Coperion ZSK 27 Extruder in Hybrid Version

Announcements

Coperion Donates Food Extruder to Purdue University

June 12, 2023

Coperion, a Hillenbrand operating company, manufactured and donated the extruder and will partner with Purdue to give customers access to a food-grade pilot lab and the university's food scientists.

Dry Processing

New GEA Pavan cereal line makes pillow-shaped product

Polish cereal maker rests easy with decision to install its seventh GEA Pavan line

Sharon Spielman

July 31, 2020

GEA Pavan installed a seventh production line at Obst S.A. that will allow the company to go to the market with cereal shaped like pillows.

New Plant Products

Food extruder for plant-based proteins

April 21, 2020

ZSK food extruder has a hybrid solution for manufacturing meat substitute products.

Technology Sourcebook

Unifiller Uni-X extruder

February 7, 2017

The Unifiller Uni-X stainless steel extruder is intended for food items such as stiff pastes, doughs, chunks, sports bars, gluten-free mixes, marzipan fillings and meat products.

Technology Sourcebook

RBS single-screw extrusion system

October 17, 2016

The RBS single-screw extrusion system produces corn curls and balls, as well as a range of expanded snacks made from corn, rice and other cereal ingredients.

JR Short Milling uses fVAC-U-MAX portable industrial vacuums

Dry Processing

Extruder keeps house with portable industrial vacuums

A supplier of grain-based intermediate foods steps up its plant sanitation and safety efforts.

Debra Schug

December 16, 2015

At J.R. Short Milling, a large-footprint snack food extruder, sanitation has become a way of life.

Technology Sourcebook

Twin screw laboratory extruder

August 26, 2015

Designed for a variety of foods, the Coperion ZSK Mv PLUS twin screw laboratory extruder meets hygiene requirements.

Food Packaging

Advanced plastic molding provides significant savings

Shane O'Halloran

September 4, 2014

Sustainable packaging provides more than environmental benefits—it can minimize packaging, warehousing and shipping costs.

Extrusion

Supercritical fluid extrusion makes super-nutritious puffed rice

The new method preserves taste and nutritional content more effectively than steam extrusion.

Shane O'Halloran

January 14, 2013

The new method preserves taste and nutritional content more effectively than steam extrusion.

Technology Sourcebook

Designed for boxed chocolate centers, caramel, cookies and frozen dough, the Egan servo wirecut extruder features a linear servo motor that controls the wire cutting motion profile, allowing more of the motor force to be applied directly to the actual driven load and producing rates up to 150 cuts/min.