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The extruder was first developed to make lead pipes in the late 18th century. But the extrusion process technique quickly spread to other manufacturing sectors, including food, feed, and biomass products. An extruder machine presses a fluid or solid material through a die. Depending on your use case, extruders adopt single- or twin-screw systems to push the premixed feed material through a barrel. Thermal pressure applied in this step can chemically modify the mixture, so the screw system must be precisely calibrated to achieve the desired result. Finally, a knife head cuts the extruded material into your designed dimensions. Extrusion machinery produces items of a uniform size, shape, and consistency.

Extrusion

Vegan meat alternatives and plant-based foods have rapidly grown in popularity over the last decade. Many people are switching to meat substitute food products. Your body does not discriminate between proteins and calories coming from meats and those coming from plants. From a nutritional point of view, they all have the same value. But chewing on a portion of veggie pumpkin protein does not feel the same as a cut of meat - the texture is completely different.

Textured Vegetable Protein

Low pressure extrusion for the production of slightly dispersed dust-free granulates. For shingled, highly porous granulates with good dispersal properties. With the basket extruder the material is compressed with an extrusion rotor with a perforating die.


<h2>Gentle pressure for granulates with a loose structure and large surface area</h2>
With the Bextruder BX from Hosokawa Alpine, the product is gently pressed to granulate with a loose structure and large surface area.

In the product chamber of the Bextruder two rotors operate in counter rotation. The upper rotor ensures good mixture and carries the material downwards. The lower extrusion rotor compresses the material and extrudes it through the screen basket.

The Bextruder is often used in pellets with a porous structure and large surface area, easily dispersible granulate, drinks powder, sauces and soups, detergent, pesticides and so on.

Basket extruder

Products can be extruded with a variety of shapes and characteristics by controlling the nozzle geometry and pressure and temperature characteristics of substrates as they are propelled through a screw style mixing machine. Precise control of pressure at the point of extrusion is essential to predictable, desirable results.


<h2>Small scale, precisely controlled extrusion of animal feed</h2>
Amandus Kahl’s Extruder OE 8 is a small batch or laboratory extruder that works on the same principal as the successful Annular gap expander design where a conical stop is used to restrict flow out of a tube as materials are driven through it by a rotating shaft. The stop is moved towards and away from the tube creating an adjustable sized gap through which material leaves the tube. Controlling the size of this gap relative to the material throughput determines the pressure under which the material is extruded and influences many of the product’s final characteristics.

These units can be provided with heating or cooling jackets and provisions for monitoring temperature and pressure. Precisely controlled product extrusion is thus achieved by applying Amandus Kahl’s patented gap control technology from the annular gap expanders to this simpler machine.

Laboratory extruder

Products can be extruded with various shapes and characteristics by controlling the nozzle geometry and pressure and temperature characteristics of substrates as they are propelled through a screw-style mixing machine. Precise control of pressure at the point of extrusion is essential to predictable, desirable results.


<h2>Product shaping with easy start-up and less waste</h2>
Amandus Kahl’s Extruder OE series is an extruder line that works on the same principle as the successful annular gap expander design. A conical stop restricts the flow out of a tube as materials are driven through it by a rotating shaft. The stop is moved towards and away from the tube, creating an adjustable-sized gap through which material leaves the line. Controlling the size of this gap relative to the material throughput determines the pressure under which the material is extruded and influences many of the product’s final characteristics.

Heating or cooling jackets can be added to these units for monitoring temperature and pressure. Precisely controlled product extrusion is thus achieved by applying Amandus Kahl’s patented gap control technology from the annular gap expanders to this more straightforward machine.

Extruder with annular gap expander

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Shaped and filled extruded breakfast and snack products are extremely popular with consumers, but can be complex and inefficient to manufacture on a large scale whilst maintaining high consistency and quality. A dedicated extrusion solution designed from the ground up for high level production provides consistency while delivering reduced costs.</span>


<h2>Twin screw extruder with enhanced quality and production flexibility</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The SBX Master Extruder by Baker Perkins has been designed specifically to enable the production of a range of high quality extruded breakfast cereals. Its integrated design allows for the easy addition of flavouring and colours, and the SBX Master is capable of producing complex multi-ingredient premium product, as well as more standard designs such as expanded corn balls, multigrain rings and shaped designs.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The SBX Master is built for flexibility. A modular barrel design allows the perfect length to be chosen to exactly suit the product required, maximising quality, and advanced features are available such as super-cooling to allow the production of fine extruded flakes.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Set up, recipe selection and full condition monitoring are available through an easy-to-use HMI with graphical representation. The open frame design means all areas of the machine are easily accessible for cleaning and maintenance, and AC motors are used throughout which are maintenance free and consume less power than DC equivalents.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Another key aspect in reducing costs is the SBX Master’s capability for rapid product changeover. Face-cutter blades are able to be changed quickly, without the need for the extruder to be brought to a complete stop, and fully automatic start-up and shutdown cycles have been designed to minimise waste between production runs.</span>

Extruder for large-scale production of breakfast cereals

Cereal and grain bars are increasingly popular, both as snack foods and as functional foods using natural ingredients. Traditionally, a higher-quality softer bar has been difficult to produce economically in small-to-medium production environments. Additionally, standard machines have only been able to produce either moulded dry-grain based bars or extruded dried fruit paste-based bars, limiting production flexibility. A modern, purpose-designed machine that can address these issues is therefore an attractive proposition.


<h2>Flexible bar machine for grain or fruit paste-based products</h2>
The Bar 2 from DSC is a flexible entry-level machine for the production of extruded or moulded soft cereal bars.

For dry cereal mixes, the product is dosed onto a conveyor which passes it through a laminating roller to assert the initial thickness. A further laminating roller then produces the final product dimension.

For dried fruit pastes, two specially designed rollers shape the pre-mixed product into a fully adjustable extrusion.

For both product types the final stage is to cut to final product size. Cut dimensions can be selected by means of the built-in touchscreen control interface.

The HMI allows the creation and storage of multiple product recipes for easy recall, meaning simple one-person operation.

The whole machine has been designed to be simple to clean, with all product contacting surfaces easily accessible for hot water washdown.

Entry-level cereal bar making machine

Soybeans are an essential ingredient in the creation of protein-rich animal feed. To achieve high-quality feed production, extrusion technology is used to facilitate mechanical and heat treatment of soybean seeds. The use of extruders helps to break apart the inner structure of soybean seeds, which makes it easy to transport nutrition in animals’ digestive system.


<h2>Mechanical grinding and heat treatment of soybean feed</h2>
The organic soybean feed extruder designed by Farmet is capable of heating up to very high temperatures and extruding oil seeds under great pressure. Soybean seeds are mixed, kneaded and squeezed into uniform shapes of pellets and granules. Short-time exposure to high temperature helps to alter the natural qualities of protein and reduce anti-nutritional substances from soybean seeds, thus enhancing the digestibility of soybean feed for ruminant livestock.

Farmet’s extruder removes bacteria and other unwanted organisms through sterilization and changes the texture of soybean seeds through expansion and gelatinization of starch. Designed with a hydraulically openable basket, the use of this unit will significantly reduce your downtime losses during maintenance as all parts are easily accessible and replaceable.

Organic soybean feed extruder

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The number of shelves with plant-based meat in a regular grocery store increases almost every day. More and more companies include vegetarian sausages, burgers, meatballs, etc in their portfolio. At the same time, more and more customers choose plant-based options every day.  Forecasts expect strong and steady growth in this category. But how is vegetarian meat made?
<h2>Which ingredients are used?</h2>
The ingredients of <a href="https://making.com/plant-based-meat">meat substitutes made of plant-based proteins</a> can be divided into four groups – water, protein, oil, and spices/additives for taste, binding, durability, and color. Different companies choose different ingredients for their recipes. It can be mixtures of pea protein isolates, rice protein, mung bean protein, canola oil, coconut oil. Some other ingredients also include potato starch, apple extract, sunflower lecithin, and pomegranate powder with a range of vitamins and minerals.
<h2>Challenges of the traditional cutting technology</h2>
Production companies have two main challenges: to choose a perfect recipe that will make customers happy and to choose a suitable production technology that will ensure the perfect texture. One of the difficulties is the hydrogenation of the dry raw materials and creating the viscosity of the base material. <a href="https://making.com/technologies/mixing">Processing in a mixer</a> takes a long time and the very viscous and sticky mixture adheres strongly and has to be discharged mostly manually – this takes a lot of time and greatly increases the risk of contamination. Vacuum-cutting technology enables up to 80 percent of time savings when hydrating raw materials in a vacuum and special shear of the knives.

Cutting technology for plant-based meat

Food

Our food chain starts in the soil, growing crops and livestock. But between the fields and the stores, there is a line of industrial food processing equipment. Processes may be as minimalistic as cleaning fruit and as complex as homogenizing milk alternatives made from pressed legumes. In each case, processing technology is an important link in the food production chain.

With consumerism comes great responsibility. More and more are switching their diet towards vegan and vegetarian alternatives, varying from dairy to meat. As more plant-based meat technologies are being invented, the production is rising in popularity. Ever wondered which challenges come with that?

Plant-based meat

I’m high in fiber, proteins, and minerals. What are your superpowers?

Lentils are one of the oldest crops ever, and you’ll be surprised how versatile this humble legume can be. They are higher in proteins than beef and have other essential nutrients. That’s why they are the new "old" superhero or, more accurately, superfood.



Martin Jager and Cassandra Winter know it well. Martin and Cassandra are the founder of <a href="https://www.easyvegan.at/en/easyvegan-is-loved-by-everyone/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EasyVegan</a>, ready-made frozen products relying on the power of lentils.

The Making.com team met them at Free From Amsterdam 2022 where Cassandra shared how everything started. Cassandra is a <em>burger lover</em> but wanted to create something tastier than the tofu and veggie burgers already on the market. So after many experiments in the kitchen with lentils, she found the right combination for a burger that - we assure you - is a wonderful explosion of flavors. So she bought a sales trailer and traveled through Austria and Bavaria, selling her vegan products at city festivals, culinary events, sporting events and concerts. EasyVegan was then founded in April 2017 with the life partner Martin to make the lentil products accessible to a broad mass.

EasyVegan products such as lentil sliders, lentil sticks, lentil balls, and lentil patties are sustainable, purely natural, lactose-free, gluten-free, GMO-free, preservative-free, and palm oil-free products. Moreover, they are SUPER tasty!

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