Special 3 Star  Production & Process Development Services

Business Planning & Development

Over many years, Peter has provided consultancy support and advice to numerous new & growing businesses across the world. Such work includes:

• Initial business scoping & planning.
• Facility & plant layout and equipment selection & use.
• Development of processes, procedures, specifications, product recipes, QA & QC systems and record keeping

Ongoing Consultancy Support

Further to the above, the following is also undertaken:

• Trouble-shooting, sensory evaluations and auditing.
• NPD and process reviews & improvements.
• Staff training and other ongoing advice as required.

New Product & Process Development

In addition to work being undertaken on-site at a client’s location, in the UK Mitchell F&D Limited has a comprehensive range of pilot-scale and laboratory equipment available for R&D and trial work as follows:

• Juice production equipment
• A set of three 100 litre fully controllable stainless-steel fermenters for fully managed & monitored trial work & process development.
• Laboratory-scale blending, filtration, carbonation, packaging & pasteurisation.
• Monitoring and laboratory analysis including %ABV, SG, CO2, acidity & pH, SO2, spectrophotometer-based assay kits (e.g. for fermentable sugars, organic nitrogen, organic acids etc) & colour.

Additional scale-up work can also be undertaken in conjunction with Hartpury Process Limited. Their own process equipment includes:

• Fruit processing and juicing up to a rate of at least 1,250 litres per day.
• Two 1000 litre stainless steel temperature controlled fermenters.
• Filtration, bottling & pasteurisation of still product.

Facilities can be accessed on a supervised self-help or fully contracted basis.