A New Approach to Applied Extrusion Training:

We have been running a “Food and Feed Extrusion” course in Australia and overseas since 1996.  That course, while very practically oriented, is dominated by lecture-style presentations, supported by a single “practical demonstration”.

This NEW “applied extrusion” course takes a different approach, providing participants with an understanding of the theory of the extrusion process, combined with a “hands-on” practical approach demonstrating how the principles are applied across different products and extruder types.

Introductory sessions cover relevant extrusion theory, followed by group sessions in which the product formulation, and screw configuration/process parameters are “designed”.  Then we go to the pilot plant and run the formulation with the designed screw profile.

While a limited number of specific products can be made during the program, the range is selected to demonstrate the principles and issues involved across the range of types of extruded products – including expanded snacks and breakfast cereals, pastas and third generation snack pellets, pet foods and aqua-feeds. Five different products to be made on three different types of extruder over the three-day course.

The facilities at the Institute of Food Research and Product Development provide the opportunity to run products on a range of different extruder types (single and twin screw), and to reconfigure the screw profiles.

Presentations are in English.