One of the best ways to increase income is to increase efficiencies in your food processing. From creating less waste through to automation and faster processing of tasks, efficiencies can be gained in a range of ways.

Choosing the Best Food Processing Technologies

We work with you to introduce new processing technologies, develop new food products, and assist you with issues you might have. We can visit you on site in Nelson, Marlborough and throughout the Tasman district to help with:

• Process development

• Thermal process evaluation

• New technologies

• New equipment

There are requirements for processes such as heat treatment (pasteurisation) to be developed and validated by “suitably skilled persons”, and commercial sterilisation processes developed and signed off by “qualified persons”. We can support you to develop these processes.

New Product Development

You want your product to be a success, and there are several factors that can help ensure this. From development of a concept, how to make it commercially viable, and dealing with technical issues, we give independent, expert advice.

• New product development

• Line extensions

• Shelf life extension

Troubleshooting Food Technology

There’s so much that can go wrong, and sometimes the problems can be hard to identify. Using our years in the industry, we have resources and experience that can help to identify and resolve problems.

• Managing pathogens

• Good hygiene practice

• Process control

• Microbiological contamination problem solving

Seafood Specialty

Seafood businesses have a range of factors that make them unique in the industry. Specialist processing such as shellfish depuration, thermal processing and canning are what we specialise in. We consult to all of NZ for shellfish depuration. Based in Nelson we are located in the hub of the New Zealand seafood industry and help you:

• Comply with NZ and overseas requirements

• Establish a Seafood RMP, or RCS for limited Fishing Vessels

• Develop and create seafood products

• Troubleshoot pathogen contamination events including Listeria monocytogenes and E. coli