Avoca BioProcessing’s 105,000 square foot manufacturing complex in Milwaukee, Wisconsin features multiple fermentation suites in which stainless steel vessels and equipment meet the highest standards in the industry. Nutrient flow, acidity of the medium, fermentation temperature, agitation and aeration are carefully monitored by electronic controls and data collection systems. Avoca Bioprocessing has specialized mixing capabilities and enzymatically modified dairy product processing experience. Our professional staff has extensive fermentation scale-up and custom production experience using numerous types of micro-organisms. Facilities are routinely inspected and approved by the AIB, and meet food industry GMP standards.
Select Equipment
- Fermentors ranging from 15 to 28,000 liters
- Continuous stacked disk centrifuge
- Basket centrifuge
- Plate-and-frame, Nutsche, bag and cartridge filters
- Micro- and Ultra-filtration equipment
- Solvent extraction equipment (e.g. extraction decanting centrifuge)
- Batch distillation stills (stainless steel and glass-lined with vacuum and packed columns))
- Continuous wiped-film evaporators (Hastelloy C with vacuum)
- Resin columns
- Grinders and mills
- Mixing tanks with axial-flow and scraped-surface agitators (40 to28,000 liters)
- High-shear mixing tanks
- Drum heating chamber and warm room
- One and two-stage homogenizers
- Tray dryer
- Spray chiller
- Refrigeration for perishable materials
- Utilities include steam, hot oil, air, nitrogen, oxygen, tempered and chilled water
