Database providing access to the High Technology Network's industrial research offering: research competences, type of analyses and tests available at the Laboratories. Companies can consult the Catalogue to find Laboratories and researchers that match their needs.
Competence
Packaging, designing and testing: choice of the proper materials for the desired product
Packaging, designing and testing: shelf-life evaluation of food products and bioactive components
Plant layout optimization
Preparation of the nutritional/health claims application
Product processing design: algorithms for automatic predictive control
Production flow chart, raw material HACCP and QFD, formulation, packaging and conservation conditions
Re-design of existing machines and plants with alternative meterials, techniques with hygienical properties included
Scanning Electron Microscopy + chemical analysis of materials (SEM/ESEM+EDX)
Selection of nutritional/health claims according to EU Regulation
Set up of in vitro methods and animal models for the evaluation of the health effects of food bioactive components
Static and fatigue mechanical strength verification
Statistical control of the process
Study of sterilization systems of containers for primary packaging in controlled contamination plants
Study of the prototype and of its trial technique
Thermal exchange enhancement
Thermal property measurement during processing steps and within container
Training on regulations, legal requirement, guidelines, best practices