CELABOR
CELABOR

Belgium: Walloon Region

Overview

The Scientific and Technical partner offering support to companies in the field of Food Technologies, Biomass Valorization (Extraction), Materials and Environment.

CELABOR’s staff is constituted of a multidisciplinary team of some forty scientists (doctors, engineers, graduates and technicians) who mean to develop a lasting relationship with you based on trust.

Our main missions : • Encourage technological innovation and the development of new products or processes through research and development. • Meet the needs for analyses and tests through its high performing and responsive ISO 17025 accredited laboratory. • Help resolve problems and/or disputes (linked to the production process, failure of quality control, etc.) through the activity of consultancy and expert appraisal.

FOOD TECHNOLOGIES NUTRITION : characterisation of your products, in-depth analysis of nutrients or contaminants, full assistance with your research and development projects

EXTRACTION : unique technological platform in… Food Technologies

- Brewing kettle Braumeister (50l)

- Waterbath Distillery - pilot plant bonding system

- Food Universal Processing system (Roboqbo) : cooking, cooling, mixing, homogeneising, whipping, evaporation

- High Pressure Processing – industrial scale (Hiperbaric 135l)

Biomass Processing - Extraction

- 70 and 350 L Extraction Vessels 

- Lab and Pilot High Pressure Extraction (supercritical CO2 and subcritical H2O)

- Process intensification: Ultrasounds, Microwave, Pulsed Electric Fields)

- Extraction post-treatment at lab and pilot scale: S/L separation, membrane filtration, freeze- and spray- drying

- Purification: Centrifugal Partition Chromatography (CPC), Flash and Prep-chromatography

Materials

- Characterization of produced materials: composition and structure (FTIR spectrometer, Infrared Microscope), Barrier properties (MOCON)

- Pilot-scale Ultra-fine friction “Supermasscolloider” (Masuko®, up to 100kg/h)

- High-Pressure Homogenizer HPH – GEA

-…. - Testing and analyses

- Research and Development

- Expertise and technical advice

- Training
. Yes. service.

Sectors
Agriculture - Agro-food - Chemicals - Construction & building sector - Environment - Measurement - Process Manufacturing - Textiles
Technology
Environmental materials (e.g. recycling, recourse efficiency, less impact, CO2 capture/ utilisation) - Surface engineering and coatings - Polymers, bioplastics - Biobased plastics - High value food & feed additives - Biobased cosmetics and personal care products - Active biopharmaceutical ingredients - Biobased chemicals - Equipment technology