Pilot Plant & Lab Scale Equipment

With over 20 years of experience, Powerpoint International has grown to be the preferred supplier of pasteuriser and UHT pilot plants to many of the world’s top beverage, dairy and flavour companies due to its bespoke way of doing business.

As the sole agents for Powerpoint International in New Zealand & Australia, we are able to supply top-of-the-line laboratory and pilot plant equipment to research and development facilities.

If it’s juice, milk, soy milk, soups, sauces, custards etc. that you want to process, either laboratory-scale or pilot scale, we have the machines to suit.

If you would like to test/trial your product on pilot plant or lab-scale equipment, we are happy to arrange this for you. Please contact us to discuss this further.

We are also able to supply pilot/lab-scale equipment for:

• Membrane Filtration / Reverse Osmosis Applications
• Stretched Curd / Pasta Filata Cheese Production
• Custom applications

The range of heat treatment options include;

• Indirect heating
• Direct steam injection or
• Direct steam infusion (DSI)

And these can be made to specification with plates, tubes, scraped surface or any combination.

We are able to include both direct heating and indirect heating on one base, so comparisons can be made easily.

Tube in tube indirect heat, plates indirect heat or combinations of the two so tubes and plates are available on one base.

We take into careful consideration your requirements and then develop a design that suits your processing, development or any other needs. We are also able to provide you with margarine and spreads processors, small scale retorts, and spray driers.

We supply a full range of tubular and plate UHT/HTST models for a wide variety of products with holding tubes manufactured to any time that our customers require.

Our range covers the full spectrum of requirements, including;

• Mini UHT@ 10 to 20  litres per hour,
• Econo-Lab series @ 20 to 60 litres per hour,
• Pilot Plant @ 200 litres per hour
• Larger production UHT Heat Exchangers are also available, starting at 500 litres per hour.

All are available with either plates, tubes or scraped surface models.

The smaller scale equipment (up to 100 litres per hour) does not require any steam. They are very compact units and are all contained in a mobile stainless steel cabinet for easy moving.