Food & Drink Process & Packaging Issue 28 2020 | Page 31

Hosokawa Micron Ltd – at the Forefront of Powder Processing Technologies for the Food Industry Hosokawa Micron has more than 100 years of powder processing, manufacturing and innovation experience in a wide range of sectors, including food and beverage, and holds food industry accreditations such as FSSC 22000. Based in the north west of England, the company has a global customer base, supplying powder processing equipment, their own dynamic intelligent software brand, Hosokawa Gen4, and a number of in-house services, including contract manufacturing, R&D, lifecycle, testing and analytics. INDUSTRY-LEADING POWDER PROCESSING EQUIPMENT Hosokawa Micron designs, manufactures, installs and services a portfolio of food and beverage processing equipment for products including soup, drinks powders, granules, sauces, chocolate, cheese, butter, pastes and liquids. Products can be with expert partners to create Hosokawa services team help to ensure first-class made from eclectic raw ingredients such Gen4 intelligent software. Having tested product quality every time, with batch as citrus peel, frozen fish, cocoa, meat, and perfected the smart technology over production documentation and validation seaweed, sunflower seeds, soy beans, several years, the company is now rolling certificates provided to support the herbal extracts, vegetables, fruit, milk, rice it out across its portfolio of equipment. process. This convenient, flexible service and insects, as the equipment is suitable With support and digital strategy solutions works for customers with many different for a variety of applications – from provided by the dedicated Hosokawa Gen4 requirements, whether it’s processing raw batch mixing wet and/or dry ingredients, team, this is excellent news for companies materials for R&D purposes, economically milling, size reduction and classifying, wishing to invest in brand-new food fast-tracking niche products or simply to agglomerating and freeze drying. processing machinery or upgrade their increasing production capacity. With no Equipment is low maintenance, robust, existing Hosokawa Micron equipment as need to invest in specialist equipment, safe and hygienic, whether off-the-shelf part of a digital transformation plan. secure packaging, plus warehouse or bespoke, while some machines are conveniently multi-purpose or self- BESPOKE CONTRACT MANUFACTURING emptying. SERVICES WITH QUALITY INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE FOR THE FOOD Hosokawa Micron has the capability to AND BEVERAGES INDUSTRY CREATED BY professionally process everything from PROCESS MANUFACTURING EXPERTS ultra-small batches to multi-tonne lots With decades of powder processing facility and works with vegan protein experience, Hosokawa Micron was ideally enhancers, amino acid mixes and milk placed to create the perfect digital toolkit replacements. The contained environment for processing manufacturers and worked and extensive experience of the technical at their dedicated on-site production storage and delivery when the customer requires, the service and support offer great options for food and beverage manufacturers. For more information or a quote, please visit hosokawa.co.uk, email [email protected] or call +44 (0)1928 755100.