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In
today's ever-changing market place, product research and
development is a must in the human food, pet food and animal
feed industries. Trying to develop a special product that
yields large market shares and profitable returns is
everyone's common objective.
Extru-Tech®,
known as a manufacturer of a fine line of quality, production
oriented single screw cooking extruders, has now developed a
machine for the purpose of research and development. The
Extru-Tech® E325 Cooker/Extruder is a versatile tool that
will grant any company or institution the ability to test
different types of formulations, colors, flavors, shapes,
textures, densities, and cook characteristics with as much
ease and accuracy as any research extruder on the market.
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In
past years, most research extruders were operated from a bench
top and were only a fraction of the size of the production
machines they were trying to represent. Data attained from
tests performed on such extruders was usually found to be
unrepresentative of actual production conditions and could not
be utilized to scale up processes to larger production
systems. With the E325, customers do research on an extrusion
system that has been scaled down proportionately from
Extru-Tech's larger production units. Extrusion
characteristics imperative to product research and development
such as moisture levels, temperatures, pressures, retention
times, and amount of starch gelatinization achieved are
identical to those found on the larger production models. The
only difference is the amount of product being processed.
Instead of producing several tons per hour, the E325 has a
capacity range of 150-800 pounds per hour (150-363 kg/hr). At
this capacity level, the E325 extrusion system is large enough
to allow researchers and marketers to produce products for use
in test market studies.
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