Facilities

The Food Centre offers various facilities to meet diverse processing needs. With over 70,000 square ft of processing space, 300 pieces of modern equipment and flexible process lines, the Food Centre can support clients with commercialization of many types of products and for different sized markets.

We have several dedicated suites for benchtop processing, development and ingredient innovations.

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Incubation Suites

The Food Centre offers an interim processing facility to food processors from all sectors and of all sizes to enable companies/agri-businesses to evaluate market acceptance of their products before investing in expensive equipment and/or facility.

Product Development and Processing Innovation Suite

The Food Centre’s Product Development and Processing Innovation Suites are equipped with the latest benchtop and small scale equipment to...

Extrusion R&D and Processing Suites

The Food Centre’s extrusion department consists of three co-rotating, twin screw extruders, extrusion auxiliary equipment, and modular post-extrusion processing equipment....

Food Testing Labs

Our labs support the Food Centre's many services in food analysis, pH testing, protein analysis, and more.

Ingredient Innovation Suite

We are equipped with various mills and an air classifier to dry fractionate fine particulate proteins from coarser starches. The...

Virtual Tours

Check out these virtual tours of our facilities for processing, R&D, packaging and ingredients Tour of the Food Centre's Product...

Advanced Food Ingredients Centre

The Food Centre is excited to share the construction progress of our new Advanced Food Ingredients Centre (AFIC2), located just...