Pulse processing
Transform peas, chickpeas, beans, and many other pulses, into cleaned and graded products, splits, flours, flakes, snacks, pasta, breakfast cereals, meat analogs, alternative ingredients, and a myriad of extruded products.
Bühler’s Food Application Center in Plymouth, MN is a place where food and grain processors, co-manufacturers, universities, associations, and research institutes can come and, with the best equipment and the best minds, explore better ways of doing things.
Bühler’s Food Application Center in Plymouth, MN is a place where food and grain processors, co-manufacturers, universities, associations, and research institutes can come and, with the best equipment and the best minds, explore better ways of doing things.
In today's fast-paced and dymanic marketplace, innovating new products to keep your product portfolio abreast of, or ahead of, current consumer trends can be an obstacle. Aside from the challenges, though, these market conditions present real opportunities, too.
Whether developing a new ingredient, a more efficient process, or bringing your latest product idea to reality, we can help. Our Food Application Center in Minneapolis (FAC) is a food qualified, FDA-approved facility designed for co-creation at its highest level – giving you the opportunity to utilze the latest in food processing technology, and the expertise that comes with more than 160 years of experience.
From idea to sustainable, industrial production.
Transform peas, chickpeas, beans, and many other pulses, into cleaned and graded products, splits, flours, flakes, snacks, pasta, breakfast cereals, meat analogs, alternative ingredients, and a myriad of extruded products.
The Prime Masa plant in the Food Application Center processes corn to create nixtamal flour for tortillas with an innovative process that uses 90% less water. This dramatically reduces costs while preserving the traditional flavor.
Our extrusion center is the perfect place to create alternative foods and ingredients. From meat substitutes, modified flours, starches and breadcrumbs, to upcycling side streams, we are at the heart of alternative proteins and food ingredient processing.
Transform oats, spelt, quinoa and several ancient grains into flours, bran, breaks, flakes, breakfast cereals and a myriad of extruded products. Our integrated lines cover the whole process from cleaning, grading, and kilning, to flaking, grinding, mixing and extruding. Create easy-to-digest products with a good taste and long shelf life.
Product development and trials
The high torque, variable screw speed and pressure variables on our twin-screw extruder provide the necessary flexibility needed to meet different process requirements that successful testing demands. Meanwhile, the modular design allows for the customization of this machine to a wide variety of applications.
Training
In our Extrusion Workshop, you'll learn the theoretical and practical aspects of extrusion as well as all the processing steps of an extrusion line. This is combined with hands-on application, for a complete understanding.
You can read more about the Extrusion Workshop here.
The optical sorting center features a wide range of our industry-leading sorting technologies to accommodate a wide range of raw materials, and even finished products. Using our SpectraVision, Multivision, LumoVision, GlowVision, and ColorVision technologies you can be assured of the most efficient and effective sort, providing you with the highest product quality.
For particle size reduction, the FAC has a complete grinding system that includes hammer mills, pin mills, roller mills, plan sifters, purifier and mill pneumatics.
The PolyFlake produces flakes from extruded or boiled corn (maize), wheat, oats, multigrain, and other raw grains while meeting the most rigorous standards in terms of product quality, throughput capacity, hygiene, and ease of maintenance.
buhler.minneapolis@buhlergroup.com
+1 763 847 9900
Bühler
13105 12th Avenue North
Plymouth, MN
USA
