Pilot Plants

In order to encourage entrepreneurship and develop the technically competent manpower for food processing and production of value added products, NIFTEM has setup food processing pilot plants equipped with a range of cutting-edge equipment and food processing / production lines to perform various types of unit operations.

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Services Offered by NIFTEM Pilot Plants

Technical handholding and promotion of entrepreneurship: Facilitating start-ups in the development and evaluation of new process or products, and upscale them to industry level

Fostering innovation: Facilitating food industry in the development of novel and innovative products and processes, and modifying existing products and processes,

Scaling up: Facilitating evaluation of new ingredients, formulations and processes on a small and medium scale production

Business incubation: Facilitating commercial production of food products by incubatees and entrepreneurs who are just starting up.

Capacity building: Training of students, progressive farmers and potential entrepreneurs.

Promotion of sustainability: Identification of areas for improvement in output capacity, energy saving, and waste and carbon foot-print reduction in food start-ups and MSMEs, and extend necessary support and guidance for sustainable food processing and value addition.

Production Trials / Development of New Products or Processes

Startups, Entrepreneurs and any Industries interested in production trials / development of novel and innovative products, and upscaling of technologies to industry scale, please write to us, chairmanpilotplants@gmail.com

NIFTEM Pilot Plants works out to be economic for optimization of inputs; product quality; efficient production and conducting trials for assessment of cost.

Commercial Production on Monthly License Basis

NIFTEM Pilot Plants facilities are offered on monthly license basis to incubatees and entrepreneurs who are just starting up for commercial production of food products.

Training Programmes

A. Regular Training Programmes

4-weeks Training programmes on Food Technology Entrepreneurship Development are conducted to pre-final year and undergraduate students of Food Technology / Agricultural Engineering or equivalent in June, July and December months. For more information, click here.

If similar training programmes needs to be arranged for more than 15 students in other months, please write to us, chairmanpilotplants@gmail.com

B. Customized Training Programmes

SHGs, FPCs, progressive farmers, group of students and any potential entrepreneurs interested in any customized training to develop and strengthen specific skills and abilities in food processing and production of value added products, please write to us, chairmanpilotplants@gmail.com

Here is a list of various hands-on trainings on the production of value added products from millets, dairy, fruits and vegetables, mushroom, traditional sweets, snacks and savory foods offered by Pilot Plants. Click here.

Technical Competency Development Programmes

Programmes on operation, adjustments, servicing and maintenance of advanced food processing machines such as IQF, CAS and MAP, Cold storage, Ripening chamber, Spray dryer, Extruders, Dryers and Evaporators for food plant operators and executives.

Technical Gap Analysis and Handholding

We extend support and guidance for process improvements, energy saving, and waste and carbon foot-print reduction in food industries, food start-ups and MSMEs.

We offer guidance on establishment of Food Processing Plants, with utilities and accessories for the efficient production of value added products.

Facilities in Pilot Plants

Process line

Twin screw extruded flakes, puffed and core filled products
Rotary head extruded kurkure type snacks
Fruits and nuts /cereal / nutri bar
Burger patty and nugget

Sl. No.	Equipment	Capacity
1	Air puffing machine	50-60 kg/h
2	Multi head automatic granules packaging machine	20 Packets/min
3	Liquid packaging machine	60 Packets/min
4	Ribbon blender	100-200 kg/h
5	Screw conveyor	100-200 kg/h
6	Twin screw extruder	100-200 kg/h
7	Five layer continuous dryer	100-200 kg/h
8	Cooking machine	100-200 kg/h
9	Seasoning machine (Double roller flavoring machine with oil/ sugar sprayer)	100-200 kg/h
10	Flaking mill	100-200 kg/h
11	Essential accessories: multi-functional shaper, core filler, core filling dies	-
12	Vertical mixer	100-200 kg/h
13	Rotary head extruder	100-200 kg/h
14	Tumble sifter	100-200 kg/h
15	Seasoner (Single roller flavor machine)	100-200 kg/h
16	Sugar boiling pot	100-150 kg
17	Mixing machine	100-150 kg/h
18	Ascension conveyor	100-150 kg/h
19	Automatic cut and form machine	100-150 kg/h
20	Packaging machine	100-150 kg/h
21	Burger machine	100 kg/h
22	Battering machine	100 kg/h
23	Breading Machine	100 kg/h
24	Flouring machine	100 kg/h

Process lines

Process Lines

Bread / bun / rusk
Cookies / muffin / puff / pastries / cakes

Sl. No.	Equipment	Capacity
1	Flour sifter cum siever	100-200 kg/h
2	Spiral mixer with detachable & one extra bowl	200 kg/h
3	Bowl tilter with lifter	200 kg/h
4	Dough divider, dough division range: 100-1000 g	200-2000 pieces/h
5	Bun divider, dough division range: 30-300 g	600-7000 pieces/h
6	Rounder for bread / rusk, dough rounding range: 100-1000 g	200-2000 pieces/h
7	Intermediate proofer	200-2000 pieces/h
8	Dough molder, dough weight range: 100-1000g	200-2000 pieces/h
9	Final proofer, temperature: upto 40⁰C, RH: upto 90%	-
10	High speed slicer	200-2000 pieces/h
11	Rotary oven with rack, gas and electric, single trolley 25 shelves	-
12	Planetary mixer with batter lifting pump	150 kg/h
13	Cake depositor having 6 dropping points, weight: 50-500 g	150 kg/h
14	Cookies wire cut & dropping machine	150 kg/h
15	Dough sheeter and cutting system, minimum thickness 1 mm	150 kg/h
16	Bread stick machine, Imported / Indian, thickness: 5-30 mm	25-50 kg/h
17	Croissant molding	2000 pieces/h
18	Center filling machine / injector moulding	25-40 kg/h
19	Center filling machine / injector moulding	5-50 kg/h
20	Donut machine with fryer	440 pieces/h
21	Cream cooker	30 L
22	Water chiller, 5000 L	110 L/h
23	Water dozer	50 L/h
24	Walk–in cold room, 2.5 m x 2.5 m x 2.5 m	-
25	Packaging machine	30-80 Pouches/min.
26	Fully automatic horizontal flow wrap machine	30-80 Pouches/min.

Process lines

Process Lines

Pulps, purees, juices, squash, cordial and formulated beverages
Jams, jellies and marmalades
Fruit bars and fruit candy
Frozen foods
Concentrates and spray dried products
Storage and ripening facilities for fruits and vegetables

#	Equipment	Capacity
1	Steam jacketed boiling pan	500 L
2	Multi effect falling film evaporator	100 kg/h
3	Pulper	100 kg/h
4	Juice extractor	100-200 kg/h
5	Screw press	100-200 kg/h
6	Colloid mill	100 L/h
7	Homogenizer	200 L/h
8	Batch mixing tank	500 L
9	Steam jacketed syrup making tank	500 L
10	Bottle washer	20 bottles/min.
11	Bottle filling machine	20 bottles/min.
12	Coring and peeling machine	0.3-1.0 MT/h
13	Slicing machine	100 kg/h
14	Cubing machine	100 kg/h
15	Bottle capping machine	10 bottles/min.
16	Bottle crimping machine	10 bottles/min.
17	Bottle labeling machine	20 lables/min.
18	Plate and frame filter press	100 kg/h
19	Sparkler filter	100 L/h
20	Plate heat exchanger	200 L/h
21	Autoclaves	150 kg
22	Pouch filler	10 Pouches/min. (500 mL in each pouch)
23	Form-fill-seal machine	10-20 Pouches/min. (500 mL in each pouch)
24	Can reformer	—
25	Can filler	10 Cans/min.
26	Can seaming machine	10 Cans/min
27	Conveyor belt	12 ft length, 2ft width
28	Tray dryer	100 kg/h
29	Spray dryer	65 kg/h
30	IQF plant	100 kg/h
31	Plate freezer	100 kg/h
32	Prefab walk in chiller	2.0 MT
33	MA/CA cold storage	1.0 MT
34	Ripening chamber	550 L

Process lines

Process Lines

Cured meat products
Comminuted / emulsified meat products
Coated meat products
Roasted meat products
Reconstructed products
Traditional meat products

Sl. No.	Equipment	Capacity (FG)
1	Automatic mixer grinder/mixer	75 L/batch (Hopper capacity)
2	Hydraulic filler, stuffer (vacuum)	200 kg/h
3	Link cutters	100 kg/h
4	Ham cooker	35 kg/batch
5	Forming line, portioning machine	100-200 kg/h
6	Injector	500 kg/h for whole bird or big pieces of meat
7	Tumbler	100 kg/batch
8	Heavy duty automatic slicer	100-200 kg/h
9	Ice maker	1500 kg/24 h at ambient condition
10	Gas flushing machine	7-20 trays/min.
11	Stewing, cooking range, broiling, frying, roasting machines	5 kg or L/batch
12	Metal detector	3 feet x 1½ feet tunnel
13	Band saw	-
14	Chiller	2 MT
15	Cold store ( -18°c)	8 MT
16	Blast freezer (-18 to -25°c)	500 kg/batch
17	Bowl cutter	40 L
18	Meat skewer machine	200 skews/h

Process lines

Process Lines

Liquid milk processing (cream separator, homogenizer and FFS machine)
Ice-cream production (with automatic cup filling machine)
Paneer production (with pneumatic press)
Flavored milk preparation (bottle filling, sterilization)
Butter production
Ghee production (with FFS machine)
Dahi preparation (with automatic cup filling machine)
Shrikhand preparation
Membrane filtration unit

Sl. No.	Equipment	Capacity
1	Platform type milk weighing machine	1000 L
2	Dump tank- Stainless steel	1000 L
3	Duplex inline filter	1000 L/h
4	Milk chiller (plate type)	1000 L/h
5	Raw milk storage tank	1000 L
6	HTST pasteurizer	1000 L/h
7	Cream separator	1000 L/h
8	Milk homogenizer	1000 L/h
9	Skim milk storage tank	1000 L
10	Cream balance tank	250 L

Sl. No.	Equipment	Capacity
1	Automatic sheeting and die cutting machine	800-1200 Pieces/h
2	Semi-sheeter machine	50-60 kg/h
3	Automatic papad drying machine	1-15 kg/h
4	Auto farsan namkin machine with fryer	100-200 kg/h
5	Batch fryer	5 L
6	Auto peeling machine	200 kg/h
7	Auto chips cutting machine	200 kg/h
8	Auto hydro dryer machine	200 kg/h
9	Atta blending Machine	10-12 kg/h
10	Pulveriser machine for spices	10-80 kg/h
11	Pulveriser machine for flour	10-40 kg/h
12	Auto heating mixing machine	50 L
13	Heavy duty wet grinder	5 L
14	Gravy making machine	10-150 kg
15	Automatic gulla cutting and rounding machine	2000 Pieces /h
16	Automatic laddu making machine	2000 Pieces /h
17	Semi-automatic chakli making machine	40-80 kg/h
18	Dosa making machine	350-400 Pieces /h
19	Vada making machine	600-800 Pieces /h
20	Idly steamer	100 Pieces/batch
21	Hydraulic tablet pressing machine	1200 Tablets/h
22	Pop corn machine with electrical heating system	250 g/batch

Cost of Equipment and Processing Lines

For initial cost of equipment and processing lines, please click here. This is presented with a view to estimate the cost of establishing process lines in food processing industries, calculation of the cost of production of processed and value added food products, and assessment of the cost of taking over the machinery on monthly license basis.

For more details, please contact NIFTEM Pilot Plant Committee

All activities and initiatives of the NIFTEM Pilot Plants are implemented through a technical committee, Pilot Plant Committee, comprising of a Chairman and Faculty Incharges of individual pilot plants as members. The Manager (Pilot Plants) executes all the initiatives taken by the NIFTEM Pilot Plants Committee.

Contact Details

#	Name	Details
1	Prof. Prassana Kumar G.V. Chairman, NIFTEM Pilot Plant Committee	Telephone: +91-130-2281043 Mob: +91-8638941500, 9435638360 Email id: chairmanpilotplants@gmail.com Prasanna.niftem@gmail.com
2	Aditya Sharma Manager, NIFTEM Pilot Plant	Mob: +91-7015504639 Email id: Aditya.sharma@niftem.ac.in
3	Dr. Ankur Ojha Faculty In- Charge RTE & Traditional Food Products Pilot Plant	Email id: aojha.niftem@gmail.com
4	Er. Anand Kishore Faculty In- Charge Bakery Products Pilot Plant	Email id: anand.iitkgp14@gmail.com
5	Dr. Sunil Parik Faculty I/C Fruits and Vegetable Processing Pilot Plant	Email id: sunilpareek.niftem@gmail.com
6	Dr. Prarbdh Badgujar Faculty In- Charge Meat & Poultry Processing Pilot Plant	Email id: prarabdh.niftem@gmail.com
7	Er. Nitin Kumar Faculty In- Charge Milk & Dairy Products Pilot Plant	Email id: nitinkumar.iit@gmail.com