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The Foodbowl

New Zealand Food Innovation Auckland (NZFIA) 

The FoodBowl is an open access, state of the art pilot plant, located in Verissimo Drive, Mangere, near Auckland International Airport.  It is available to innovative food and beverage companies of all sizes, providing hands-on access to a world class manufacturing pilot facility.

This centre for innovation affords businesses, both start up and established, a cost effective and low risk way to develop, test and prove their initiatives through commercial pre-production.  The plant offers advanced high-tech processing and production systems technology with the capability to produce pilot scale commercial batch sizes for in-market testing or additional process volume.

 

 

The Auckland FoodBowl includes seven process halls:

 

Process Hall 1:  Equipment for extrusion and milling/blending, filling equipment to handle bulk bags or retail packs for both extruded product and powdered blends

 

Process Hall 2:  UHT / aseptic filling line and other equipment for beverage development and production

 

Product Hall 3:  General purpose, for consumer goods including cans, retort pouches, stand-up pouches, pottles and jars; general purpose food processing; and bar extruder for and capacity to bake biscuits, health bars and novelty items

 

Process Hall 4:  High-pressure pasteurization

 

Process Hall 5:  Freeze drying

 

Process Hall 6:  Microwave thawing

 

Process Hall 7:  Production kitchen

 

 

The FoodBowl is operated by NZFIA, part of the NZ Food Innovation Network, a national network of science and technology resources created to support the growth of F&B businesses by providing facilities and expertise.

 

The FoodBowl network provides an ‘expertise bank’ of approachable, experienced and highly-skilled technologists, scientists and consultants to support businesses using the facilities if required.  And there’s a knowledge base to identify and develop opportunities for inter-company collaboration.

 

The network will have four regional hubs, in Auckland, Waikato, Palmerston North and Canterbury (at Lincoln University).  The four regional hubs:

 

Auckland:   Opened October 2011, focusing on processed foods

 

Waikato:   Scheduled to open mid-2012, focusing on dairy

 

Palmerston North:   Now operational, draws on expertise of 600 scientists and technologists in NZFIN partner facilities, including Massey University, Riddet Institute, AgResearch, Plant and Food Research and Fonterra Innovation

 

Canterbury:   Operating now, is aimed at scaling up South Island producers and facilitating the move into overseas markets.

 

 

For more information phone 09 254 4730 or 0508NZFOOD or email Stuart Walker

 

 

 

 

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