The use of vacuum facilitating processing technology in food production, quality control and new food development is growing quickly. Scitek technologies add value through preservation, weight reduction, shelf-life extension and extraction of actives. A particular area of interest for Scitek and many of our customers is the reduction of food waste. According to Foodbank Australia we are wasting 7.3 million tonnes of food every year.
Our desire is to support companies in repurposing food that never reaches the consumer. What is not “a grade” produce is often still perfectly fine for use as processed product or ingredient. Scitek technologies take that produce and transform it from lost revenue to a significant income streams for our customers..
Freeze Drying
Freeze Drying is known to offer the best quality dried product available on the market. We offer solutions from lab scale to high throughput production. Our freeze dryers operate in batch mode or even continuous mode, for both solids and liquids. Popular products that are freeze dried are high value fruit and vegetables as well as pulps.
Microwave Assisted Vacuum Drying
REV® “Radiant Energy Vacuum” Dehydration (Drying) has revolutionised high throughput vacuum drying technology. REV® drying is gentle, extremely fast and allows precise moisture control whilst also offering lower production cost compared to traditional freeze drying. REV® is perfect for solids.
Actives Extraction
Extraction of food materials such as roots, spices, herbs and fruit has opened the pathway to new superfoods, nutraceuticals and even pharmaceuticals. We offer a range of solution from atmospheric to high pressure extraction using a wide range of extraction solvents to suit. Extractions are done on liquid-solid, liquid-liquid, steam and gas (CO2) basis.
Evaporation Plants
Evaporations plants are often used to recover or concentrate extracts. They are often linked to extraction plants upstream and drying plants downstream. We offer solutions for rising film, falling film and other techniques.
Vacuum Distillation Systems (Ginovation)
Scitek offers a range of vacuum distillation systems popular in gin and whiskey industry as well bars and restaurants. Vacuum distillation allows distillers to work at lower temperatures unlocking flavour and fragrance profiles, that cannot be achieved at high temperature. More information