Food Manufacturing Facilities

Facilities

The NCFM have two factory grade food manufacturing facilities. They are dedicated to robotics and automation and generic food manufacturing operations. They are utilised through our industry led research and are available to business, wishing to hire facilities for trial, manufacture and train-out for new products and processes. Technician support is available to assist in the set-up and organisation of the facilities, with space available for test equipment and a clients own equipment to be used as part of the hire, with general amenities (water, electric and compressed air services) available.

With access to the manufacturing facilities, a range of equipment may also be made available, including:

• Analytical equipment
• Packaging equipment;
• Processing equipment
• Robotic equipment

Conferencing and meeting room facilities can be available the same time, to provide operational and review areas when conducting factory operations, or to widen meeting space opportunities for business. Find out more about Conferencing Facilities at NCFM.

NCFM work with industry and to facilitate collaboration, site resources can include for use by companies on their premises. Demonstrations can be agreed with technician support.

Analytical equipment

• Microscopes
• Draper Flexi inspection camera
• Olympus high speed camera
• pH meters
• Malvern Mastersizer for particle size analysis
• PBI Dansensor Gas analyser for CO2 and O2
• Moisture content meter
• Digital refractometer
• Brookfield Viscometer
• Fluke thermal imagine camera

Processing equipment

• BCH steam jacketed pan
• Extruder
• Pasteuriser
• Pizza press
• Bench top Hobart mixers
• Conventional oven
• Microwave oven
• Ice cream maker
• Humidity cabinet
• Steam infusion rig
• Freeze dryer
• Sausage filler
• Apple mill
• Apple press

Processing equipment

• Multi-vac Tray sealer
• Multi-vac vacuum bagger
• Enercon induction heat sealer for bottle caps
• Turbo Depositor

General equipment

• Temperature probes
• Wide range of weighing scales
• Deep fat fryers
• Induction hot plates
• Freezers and chillers, blast chilling capabilities
• Hand blenders
• Humidity cabinet

If you would like to hire these resources, please contact ncfm@lincoln.ac.uk with details of your requirements.