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IntroductionOur Miniature Plant Trial Services provide the advantages of our equipment without having them at your own facility. For many years, processing has been a persistent unknown, often restricting experimentation and impeding development. MicroThermics works quickly and confidentially to conduct trials supporting your development needs. We offer four different programs: Miniature Plant Trials, Overnight Plant Trials, Microwave Plant Trials, and Scale-Down Services. Our programs accelerate your product development by relieving the scheduling, disposal, and cost restrictions of conventional plant trials. Small batch sizes (minimum 1-3 liters depending upon product and process) allow many ingredient and process variables to be tested. Thus, you can learn how your product will perform during processing. This enables you to develop a functional formula quickly and easily... without the challenges of full-scale plant trial. Come and take advantage of our laboratory, process capabilities, and experience with continuous thermal processes to advance your research.
Miniature Plant TrialsMiniature Plant Trials are conducted at our facility where you can formulate and process products at conditions ranging from hot-filling to Ultra High Temperature (UHT) processes (for aseptic and extended shelf life products). During each test, processing conditions are recorded using computerized data acquisition, enabling you to review them for each batch separately. This data is extremely useful in fouling studies where burn-on of different process tests are compared so formulas can be modified to optimize their quality and run time. Processing conditions can be selected to represent general industrial conditions, or arranged confidentially to imitate your specific process. With our Miniature Plant Trial Services, you can arrive with a concept and leave with a tested and proven formula.
Minimum Batch: 1 to 10 liters depending on product and process
Maximum Batch: 160 liters or more depending on product and process
Tests per day: 5 to 20 depending on product and process
Overnight Plant TrialsOvernight Plant Trials are used as a follow-up to our Miniature Plant Trials. They are nearly the same, with one major exception. You do not need to attend these plant trials. Your samples are sent to us using appropriate services (i.e. overnight couriers, etc.). We assemble and process the product to your specifications. Processed samples are over-nighted on ice back to you, with a report containing process data, and our observations. This service has two advantages. First, it eliminates travel costs but more importantly, these Overnight Plant Trials eliminate travel schedules. They can be conducted on short notice, and turned around quickly.
Scale-Down ServicesAt MicroThermics, you don't scale up the product, we scale-down the process. We've combined the flexibility of our laboratory-scale processing systems with the latest techniques developed to measure the impact of continuous thermal processes. After satisfying the necessary confidentiality requirements, we evaluate your detailed process data, and select laboratory scale processing conditions to match them. With Scale-Down Services, you can use our laboratory scale processing systems, or the services discussed above, to accurately reproduce plant conditions and qualify developmental formulas before plant trial.
Laboratory InformationMicroThermics, Inc.
3216-B Wellington Ct.
Raleigh, NC 27615
USA
Phone (919) 878-8045
Fax (919) 878-8032