Infant Nutrition

This industry has some of the most challenging demands on ingredient accuracy, hygiene and process control with infant nutrition products. Rospen designs and manufactures weighing, metering and material handling systems that facilitate uniform, safe and traceable production of infant formulas and nutritional powders, from the intake of bulk ingredients to the final mixing and handling of powder.

Accurate Recipes of Delicate Formulations

Babies formulas are a combination of base powders (skimmed milk or whey) and carbohydrates, fats, minerals, vitamins and other functional ingredients that need to be administered with extreme precision. The feeding and weighing system of Rospen offers the necessary accuracy and repeatability of such complicated formulations.

• Loss in weight feeders, weighbelts and weighscrews designed to be used in dairy and nutrition feeds and other major, minor and micro ingredients.
• Gravimetric feeding systems: Supports batch and continuous feeding, and offers constant, repeatable dosing.
• Connection with recipe management and automation to ensure complete traceability of all the additions of ingredients.

Intake to Packing: Protection of Powder Quality

Powdered infant nutrition has to arrive at packing lines in a controlled and accurate manner. Rospen has many conveying and transfer solutions that observe these limitations.

• Pneumatic and mechanical conveying systems that are designed to transfer fine and frequently fat containing powders between process stages in a gentle manner. E.g. system layouts that reduce demixing between mixers or dryers and intermediate storage and packing.
• Sieving, screening and foreign body prevention measures that can be incorporated to assist in preserving product integrity and help in avoiding product issues.

Built for Strict Hygiene and Fast Cleaning

Infant nutrition plants are operated under high hygienic requirements, with strict cleaning and validation procedures. Rospen creates equipment and systems that are cleanable and safe for the operator.

• Clean, sanitary contact surfaces and well-thought geometries to minimise product retention and enable good cleaning.
• Fast strip of critical parts to reduce the time spent between product sequences.
• Expectations of food safety, such as dust-tight operation in controlled environment production areas.

Concept to Commissioning

Infant nutrition projects require strong engineering, documentation and validation that extends to the initial phases of design up to operation. This application can be done with Rospen, which has a track record of project work and experience in the challenging food and process industries.

• Support: System design, mechanical and electrical engineering, software, installation and commissioning.
• Extensive project documentation and testing regimes to show performance within agreed specifications.
• Long term service and support to aid in maintaining the accuracy, reliability and compliance throughout the entire lifecycle of the plant.