Research

Pilot Plant Upscaling & Laboratory

We have on-site bench-top and pilot plant process-development capabilities and have established cooperation pilot plant access-agreements with specific universities, including Oregon State University, Kansas State University, and Texas A&M University, associations with analytical, microbiological and biotechnological laboratories including BIOGEN Laboratory Developments, LLC, WRSSFNI-Megazyme Food & Nutrition to ensure reliable and scalable commercial systems. In this manner, we assure consistent, reproducible results focusing on product functionality and the production of market-test quantities before proceeding with capital investments.

An essential part of our by-product valuation consists in the ability to first assess its “as is utility” or condition of stability, either biological, enzymatic or microbiological, together with existing sanitary conditions of generation and, of course, its compositional utility. To accomplish this valorization and ultimate utility, we have onsite proprietary equipment capable of supporting benchtop and process developments requiring:

• Solvent-Free Extractions

• Temperature-Controlled Centrifugation

• Low-Temperature Concentration

• Customized Fractionation & Isolation

• Lyophilization

• Low-Temperature Dehydration

• Fermentation

Under the cooperation access-agreements, we have identified benchtop and pilot-plant equipment capabilities to effect extractions, isolations, fractionations, dehydrations and particle-size reductions from by-products and into product and process-developments compliant with current market expectations for “clean labeling” or “pantry friendly”. More specifically, such capabilities are best illustrated by solvent-free extractions aided by ultrasonication, lyophilization and low-temperature concentrations of sensitive phytochemicals including endogenous antioxidants, enzymes, pigments, bio-flavors (fermentation-products), etc.