Animal feed: Measure, control, innovate
Animal feed is based on a wide variety of raw materials (powders, emulsions, semolina, granules, pâtés, buckets, boluses, etc.), implemented through complex processes (mixing, granulation, packaging, extrusion, etc.). These steps determine the nutritional quality, product consistency, and industrial performance.
RHEONIS supports manufacturers, equipment suppliers and formulators for better understand, diagnose et optimiser their products and processes, while opening up prospects for innovation.
Your challenges in R&D, industrialization or production
- Fluidity and processability powders and granules (prevent blockages, segregations, losses)
- Stability and texture formulations (durability of granules, homogeneity of ingredients)
- Safety and regularity of production (humidity control, control of critical parameters)
- Product and process innovation (new textures, differentiating formats, sustainable development)
Our services
With an approach multi-physical and phenomenological, RHEONIS offers tailor-made services:
- Make a complete diagnosis malfunctions or variabilities
- Develop and implement predictive instrumental methods (processability, applicability)
- Accompany your technical and strategic choices (processes, equipment, formulation)
- Optimize their campaigns your mixing, granulation and packaging processes
- Accelerate your innovations through targeted trials and methodological transfers
- Train your teams to internalize technical mastery
Products affected
We work on all the shapes and matrices typical of the sector:
- Powders and premixes
- Emulsions et pasta
- Semolina and semolina
- Pellets and extrudates
- Blocks, pies and buckets
- Boluses and specific shapes
Common processes and issues
Our interventions cover all key stages in R&D, industrialization and production:
- Evaluation of ingredients and formulation
- Storage and handling powders (fluidity, cohesion, segregation)
- Mixing and homogenization (repeatability, dispersion of additives)
- Granulation and extrusion (durability, friability, energy efficiency)
- Packaging and storage (stability, humidity, texture)
- Applicability and performance finished products (ingestion, bioavailability, nutritional efficacy)
Expertise dedicated to Innovation
Beyond operational control, RHEONIS helps animal feed players to innovate:
- Integration of new ingredients (fibers, alternative proteins, functional additives).
- Development of differentiating textures for granules, pâtés or blocks.
- Sustainable process optimization.
In this context, we are notably mobilizing our unique approach of instrumented micro-pilots designed to explore and anticipate the complex behaviors of formulations and processes, as well as our innovative process PLcJ.
Some useful links
- Animal feed (Wikipedia page)
- Food
- Case study: Evaluation of binder and targeting of granulation process in instrumented micro-pilot
- Case study: Determination of gel point for gelled product
- Case study: R&D feasibility study in dry and wet granulation
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