For more than 25 years, Foodwest Ltd., Seinäjoki, Finland, has provided testing and development of food products as well as manufacturing technologies and packaging solutions for production scale-up. Expertise at this facility covers all food sector categories from snack food and bakeries to one of food’s fast growing market sectors—plant-based foods.
In order to provide the highest flexibility in extruded product development, Foodwest recently expanded its food development center with a Coperion ZSK 27 food extruder in hybrid design. Due to the system’s modular construction, Texturized Vegetable Protein (TVP), High Moisture Meat Analogues (HMMA) and numerous other extrudates such as snacks and cereals can be manufactured on the same machine.