Food Manufacturing Technology Facility

CENTER for ADVANCED FOOD TECHNOLOGY/FMT
External Review Presentation April 18-20, 2004

Food Manufacturing Technology Facility

The Food Manufacturing Technology Facility is a 31,000 square foot off-campus building located at 120 New England Avenue in Piscataway, New Jersey.
The facility contains 7,500 square feet of USDA/ FSIS/FDA approved manufacturing space, as well as a Product Development Kitchen. Quality Control Laboratory, and other support space including an information resources room, a conference room, and offices. The facility and related equipment are available for short- and long-term use for proprietary product and process development.
Technicians and staff are available to instruct, supervise, and assist in conducting test work.

USDA/FSIS/FDA Pilot Plant

The Pilot Plant houses:

a hot air impingement oven;
two (2) horizontal form/fill/seal packaging lines for flexible pouches;
filling equipment including a 6-head liquid filler, a combination adjustable volume transfer cup filler and rotary volumetric filler and a robot system for placeables;
continuous flow, pre-formed container, heat seal packaging line;
both commercial and development size sterilization retorts with multiple heating modes (steam, steam/air, water spray, full water immersion, still, and agitated).

The facility also has advanced inspection equipment including production scale package integrity testing equipment and machine vision.

Product Development Kitchen

The Product Development Kitchen is available for Facility users which are interested in producing preliminary product samples. It contains typical bench-scale and restaurant sized kitchen equipment.

Quality Control Laboratory

The Quality Control Laboratory contains basic instrumentation and laboratory materials necessary for bench-top ingredient, packaging, and product testing during the formative stages of R&D projects. A layout of the FMT facility is shown below.

For more information contact:	Dr. John Coburn : Coburn@foodfac1.rutgers.edu
	Mr. Rieks Bruins: Bruins@foodfac1.rutgers.edu