- Life & Medical Sciences
Semi-industrial scale facility for the development and validation of products, processes and equipment.
The AZTI pilot plant is the facility where some of the most cutting-edge technologies in Europe for improving food products and processes come together. In its almost 1,000 square metres, the pilot plant enables the development of new food products and the validation of emerging new technologies on a pre-industrial scale.
Simulates the production process in the food industry
Planned along the lines of a hygienic design that simulates the overall production process of the food industry, the equipment and technologies the plant is endowed with enable those companies wanting to evaluate a new product (whether in intermediate, semi-finished, prepared, restructured or analogous foods) or a production line on the market may do so without undertaking big investments.
Integrated services to:
- The food industry (all sectors), to design, develop and validate new processes and technologies as well as new food products. Likewise, it provides assessment in process automation.
- Merchandise and equipment manufacturers. It facilitates the means for validating their technologies in the food sector. To do this, it has reserved a space where they can provisionally incorporate new technologies.
Equipment
- Technologies for the integral development of intermediate, semi-elaborated, elaborated, restructured and analogous foods.
- Food preservation processes and technologies: Storage chambers, freezing, pasteurization, sterilization processes, surface, packaging and chemical processes.
- Stabilisation processes and technologies: Dehydration, freezing, encapsulation/immobilisation processes.
- Decontamination processes and technologies: Reduction of chemical and biological risks.
- On-line control of products and/or processes.
- Automation for classification.
- Revaluation of residues and by-products.
- Test and adjust new food products.
- Validate technologies and machinery in real-world conditions.
- Optimise processes in terms of efficiency, quality and consumption.
- Assess functional ingredients and raw materials.
- Apply sustainability and recovery strategies.
- It has flexible lines for processing, preservation and fermentation, among others, and allows testing under controlled conditions, with specialised technical support.
AZTI
Bizkaia Technology Park (Astondo Bidea, Edificio 609, 48160 Derio, Vizcaya)
Processes, bioprocesses and food preservation:
- Biotechnology, biological processes and systems
- Bio-health technologies
Application sectors
- Agri-food
- Capital goods
- Eco-industry
Industry plan
- IRABAZI · Advanced manufacturing
