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The Australian Food industry wants to export $7 billion each year of highly processed foods, such as breakfast cereals, pasta and crisp breads, by the year 2000.
CSIRO and BOC Gases Australia Ltd will help the industry compete in the export market, with the opening of a new pilot scale food processing centre at Riverside Corporate Park, North Ryde, on Tuesday, 27 June.
The small scale plant and equipment allow the cost-effective development of new products, without using large amounts of ingredients. Product modification and re-testing, and new ingredient evaluations will be more efficient.
Company production schedules will not be disrupted to develop new products and processes, saving money and time.
The facilities at the new centre will also help managers with their decisions on the purchase of new equipment.
The new facilities include an extruder and BOC Gases freezing equipment.
Extruded foods are one of the fastest growing food areas around the world. In Australia, they are of a similar value to dried, frozen or canned foods - around $1.8 billion annually.
The extruder is the first of its kind available in Australia for industry-wide extrusion research and development. CSIRO will establish a centre of expertise in extrusion technology to assist the Australian food industry in this area.
BOC Gases have installed new freezing facilities that will enable customers to conduct trials using the expertise of CSIRO staff and resources of the BOC Gases Food Industry Centre. Facilities include a range of freezing equipment, using liquid nitrogen and liquid carbon dioxide. The Centre will permit BOC Gases to launch several new freezing technologies in the next few months.
Customers of CSIRO and BOC Gases have been invited to inspect the new facilities that will be opened by Mr John Kerin, Chairman of the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation, at 10.35 am on Tuesday, 27 June.
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