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The Food Development and Manufacturing Center is located at 120 New England Ave in Piscataway, NJ 08854 (Directions). It is a 31,000 ft facility operated under constant USDA inspection and is a FDA licensed canning facility. We conduct development, scale up and short production runs at our flexible facility. While we manufacture product for sale, we are not a production copacker. Our focus is on production for consumer tests, small test markets and start up related activities. We will assist you in locating a suitable copacker at the appropriate stage of the project.
The facility also is home to a number of small NJ food and ingredient companies who develop and manufacture their products in our facility. If you are looking for laboratory or manufacturing space for your company, please contact us to discuss short or long term leasing of space in our shared facility.
The facility contains 7,500 square feet of USDA/ FSIS/FDA approved manufacturing space, as well as a Product Development Laboratory, Quality Control Laboratory, Pilot Plant, Warehouse and other support space including an information resources room, a conference room, and offices. The facility and related equipment are available for short- and long-term use for proprietary product and process development.
Technicians and staff are available to instruct, supervise, and assist in conducting test work.
The Product Development Kitchen is available for clients interested in producing preliminary product samples. It contains typical bench-scale and restaurant sized kitchen equipment. It is available on a daily or weekly basis.
The Quality Control Laboratory contains basic instrumentation and laboratory materials necessary for bench-top ingredient, packaging, and product testing during the formative stages of R&D projects and is also available on a short term basis
The Pilot Plant equipment includes:
- a hot air impingement oven;
- two (2) horizontal form/fill/seal packaging lines for flexible pouches; ;
- continuous flow, pre-formed container, heat seal packaging line;
- commercial and development size sterilization retorts with multiple heating modes (steam, steam/air, water spray, full water immersion, still, and agitated).
- Homogenizer
- Meat injection equipment
- Steam jacket kettles and associated pumps
- Baking ovens
- Hot Pack line for beverages
- Walk in Freezers and Refrigerators
Contact Information:
Email: franke@aesop.rutgers.edu
Directions: The Food Development and Manufacturing Center Facility is located at 120 New England Avenue in Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 , approximately 2 miles off Route 287 Exit #7.