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What to Look for When Buying an Extrusion Machine
The food extrusion industry was valued at $60.4 billion in 2019, before the pandemic, and is expected to rise to 81 billion dollars by 2027. It's time to invest in a food extruder machine if you want to boost your food manufacturing company's productivity and...
3 Ways to Improve Efficiency of a Food Processing Plant
Food processing has come a long way in the last several decades. Food plants are now designed to improve their ability to mass-produce food, transport it over large distances, and make it considerably safer. However, as the world's population grows, efficiency and...
A List of Extruded Food Products
The food extrusion process is incredibly beneficial for the production of a wide variety of foods that we consume daily. It’s a sustainable and versatile technology that combines several unit operations into a single integrated process, including cooking, heating,...
The Role of Food Extrusion in Food Processing
Food extrusion entails a bioreactor system that pushes several mixed ingredients through a narrow, shaped opening, known as a die (Lisch and Launay 1893) to form various products, referred to as extrudates (Berek, 2009). Hot, cold, co-extruded, and steam-induced...
Challenges Surrounding High-Meat Pet Food Extrusion
Thanks to the advancements in the field of pet food extrusion, consumers around the world are becoming far more specific with what they want. Over the past many years, terms like natural and organic have been increasingly common among pet food buyers. However, pet...
The Potential Impact of Extruded Food Products on Food and Nutrition Security
Food extrusion involves processing several ingredients, forcing them to flow under a predetermined pressure through various conditions, such as shear, mixing, and heat application. The melted mixture passes through a ‘die’ or perforated plate which is typically...
What Is a Hammer Mill and Where Can You Use It?
Food and feed processing are vast processes that entail many different complex pieces of equipment that have their own distinctive uses and provide their own unique advantages. One such important processing equipment is a hammer mill. Let’s find out exactly what a...
Everything You Need to Know About Food Cloud Colour Sorter
If you’re in the food processing business, you’d know how much important it is to make sure that your products are always top-quality and your business doesn’t have any lapses in quality control during the processes. For food manufacturers that deal in rice, seeds,...
2 Things to Consider Before Selecting a Food Extrusion Company
The food industry has seen massive growth over the years. The total revenue in the snacks industry is at a whopping US$449,000 in 2021 globally. Whether that’s down to a growing population or changes in eating habits and preferences, there’s no doubt that snack items...
The impact of extrusion on feed production and digestibility
Feed extrusion was first developed over a century ago when steam and pressure were used to produce feed. Since then, extrusion machines have progressed to achieve a wide range of production outcomes and using an assortment of technologies. When it comes to feed...
