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Are you looking for individual solutions for your problem areas?
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We offer you our expertise and customer orientation for
- the development and optimization of your technology and products as well as
- process control and quality assurance
in the fields of Food Technology and Biotechnology.
Further information and services
Food Technology
Process control, automation
- Development of specific measuring methods and sensors for process control
- Analysis of food ingredients
- HPLC, GC-MS, UV-VIS-NIR-IR spectroscopic analysis of foodstuffs
- Development of automation concepts
- ISO 9000ff., HACCP concepts
Quality assurance
- Food analysis
- Food Process Engineering
Microbiology/hygiene
- Microbiological process controls
- Hygiene technology
- Toxicity testing
- Inspection of disinfection and sterilization equipment according to DIN/EN
Biotechnology
The ILBQ makes its fermentation technology center available to you for contract fermentations and offers the following services in this context:
- Work on strain maintenance and cultivation
- Production and sterilization of cultivation media
- Scale transfers from shake flasks via laboratory fermenters to technical scale
- Carrying out accompanying analyses for fermentation
- Microscopic examinations
- Optimization of the fermentation regime
- Complete support and documentation of research and contract fermentations
- Product preparation on a small technical scale
Food Technology
Main focus
- Development and testing of recipes
- Optimization of technological processing
- Development of quality assurance strategies
- Supporting the introduction of production
Examples of
Product development
- Spirits industry, including essences and base material production
- Specialty and specialty beers
- Foamed foodstuffs
- Encapsulation of flavors and active ingredients
- Fermented foods
- Biotechnical utilization of renewable raw materials
- Fruit juices, nectars, fruit juice drinks
- Dairy products
Technology optimization
- Development of a new processing machine for the meat industry
- Pasteurization and sterilization processes
- Various stages of the brewing process
- extrusion
- spray drying
- membrane filtration
Biotechnology
Main focus
- Strain maintenance
- Cultivation
- Scale transfer (laboratory pilot plant production)
- Process optimization
- Practical fermentation course (engineering training)
Potential areas of application for
Research and contract fermentations
- Microbial and enzymatic material conversions
- Extraction of microbial enzymes
- Production of special product samples
- Cultivation of microorganisms for soil remediation
- Cultivation of starter cultures for the food industry
- Special antibiotic fermentations and much more.
Molecular Biotechnology
- Standard molecular biological and genetic engineering methods including cloning
- Various applications of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) including in vitro mutagenesis and AFLP analysis
- DNA fluorescence sequencing and fragment analysis
- mammalian cell culture
- Recombinant peptide/protein production in E.coli, yeast and mammalian cells
- Proteinase activity and inhibition test
