Processing

If your goal is creating differentiated food products, process efficiency, waste utilisation, supply chain sustainability or new protein ingredients, our processing team can help.

How we help industry in process engineering innovation:

We help companies:

• optimise and design processes for microbial inactivation, enzyme activation or inactivation and modification or restructuring of protein, fats and starch through scientific experimentation, multiphysics modelling and validation
• manufacture high-value ingredients by extraction and enrichment from complex product waste streams using separation science
• incorporate, stabilise and enhance efficacy of bioactives in food products while ensuring consumer acceptability
• design systems for pest disinfestation and disease control in significant horticultural products using novel technologies such as microwave, ultrasound and high pressure processing as chemical free alternatives to current quarantine measures
• undertake product life cycle assessments to understand resource utilisation, raw material flow and transformation along the food supply chain to find more sustainable and wholesome ways of producing food to feed the world.

Our scientists have the world class food process engineering expertise and facilities necessary to support product and process development in:

• protein foods
• new ingredients
• meat
• dairy
• grains
• beverages
• fruit and vegetables
• bioactives.

Companies can be certain that their work with us is totally confidential.

Our key process engineering resources available to industry

Key CSIRO resources available for industry include:

• our $50m world-class food manufacturing pilot plant in Werribee, Victoria, around 3000 m² in size with a range of conventional and innovative processing technologies and equipment and the joint Queensland Government/CSIRO food pilot plant in Brisbane, Queensland
• scientific and engineering staff with expertise in process development, drying, thermal processing, separation, extrusion, postharvest technology, innovative technology (including high pressure processing, ultrasound, microwave) and process and systems modelling
• supporting expertise in sensory evaluation, chemical analyses, food safety assurance and more.

To discuss your food processing needs, contact