Innovation Center
Innovation Center
Infusent® is known for its entrepreneurial culture that supports engineering and process technology, and co-creation with customers, driven by a robust global distribution network. New molding and forming technology improves: Bread quality for bakers; workhorse equipment allows confectioners to craft a rainbow of new candies and lollipops; and pioneered technology expands the variety of convenient, tasty, and popular snacks and breakfast cereals that are enjoyed in homes around the world. Much of this new solution-based engineering begins in their Innovation Centers in the UK and the US.
The Infusent® Innovation Center offers customers facilities to develop new products and processes, produce samples for test marketing, and conduct feasibility trials. Test products using our unique starch-free method include hard candy in solid, striped, layered, filled varieties; soft confectionery such as toffee, caramel, fondant; and gummies and jellies.
The Innovation Center contains a wide range of production and laboratory-scale equipment dedicated to the confectionery, cookie, bar and pet treat industries. Customers are guaranteed total confidentiality, working with the help of Baker Perkins’ experienced food technologists.
A range of technologies under one roof enables Team Infusent® to cross conventional process boundaries and offer a variety of solutions for a single product. This range of equipment is permanently available, and specialized units can be brought in – from other suppliers if necessary – to complete a process.
Customers are welcome to bring along their technologies to integrate with our existing equipment. Team Infusent® participates in our customers’ success and supports a culture of entrepreneurship!
Lifetime Support
When evaluating equipment from Infusent®, customers expect and receive the most accurate equipment specification, reliability, end-product quality, and low production costs to meet their size, goals, and business forecast.
Lifetime Support will meet customer expectations for as long as the equipment is in production. We offer a broad range of services to help maintain and improve line performance and extend useful life.
The Infusent® brand promise covers everything from replacement parts to major repairs and rebuilds. It also includes on-site engineering services: planned maintenance contracts, fault-finding, and plant optimization. There are also upgrades available to key features to improve performance and reliability.
Trouble-Free Commissioning
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- Trouble-free commissioning of a new plant or launch of a new product range.
- Companies worldwide find that using their local raw materials and moulds from their production scale depositor provides a reliable basis for innovation and product development through trials.
Worldwide Support
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We work with worldwide suppliers expert in ingredient, flavor, and color, ensuring that products created in our Innovation Centers are accurately reproduced in a production environment.
Flexible Experimental Process Lines
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A range of technologies under one roof enables Team Infusent™ to cross conventional process boundaries and offer a variety of solutions for a single product. This range of equipment is permanently available, and specialized units can be brought in – from other suppliers if necessary – to complete a process.
Risk-Free Process Conversion
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Businesses still using conventional technologies such as die forming can utilize the Innovation Centers to convert to our starch-free depositing process, thus maintaining the distinctive qualities of their product portfolio.
Process Reproduction
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Process settings and product characteristics achieved in the lab will easily transfer to a production environment.
Wide Range of Variations
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Experiment with a range of new flavors and colors; test emerging ingredients, non-standard weights and unconventional shapes.
Production to Validation Standards
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The ServoForm™ system is suitable for products where validation of the process is required: the process is consistent and repeatable, there is no recycling of starch, and the equipment is hygienic and easily cleaned.
Innovation Center
Turn concepts into commercially viable products
- Many customers install laboratory-scale depositors to develop products without costly use of an industrial-scale plant and to make small-scale runs for test marketing.
- Ingredient and flavor suppliers can also invest in these machines for development purposes.
Create a versatile range of innovative new products + possibilities
- Hard candy and lollipops in solid, striped, layered, and filled varieties
- Soft candy such as toffee, caramel, and fondant
- Gummies and jellies using our unique starch-free process
- Cookies, bars, pet treat and a variety of other products
Access Baker Perkins’ wealth of process expertis
- Our Innovation Centers in the US and UK contain a wide range of production and cooking equipment dedicated to the edibles industry.
- Customers are guaranteed total confidentiality, working with or without the help of Baker Perkins’ experienced food technologists.
Interested in starting or scaling your infused edibles program today?
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"What industry leaders have to say:"
Nova Farms
There is not going to be a company that says I don’t want to produce more, and when you are craft & crushing it people will want more, now you are racing to catch demand and by nature of having the ServoForm Mini you can.
MidWest Roots
Infusent has gone above and beyond for us and we have received such good service from the team. Your crew is just so knowledgeable and having your crew in the building is helpful in and of itself.
My Green Network
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Nova Farms
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MidWest Roots
The biggest takeaway is that confidence level, we made the smart decision, we bought the right piece of equipment early on.
My Green Network
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Planet 13
At our scale, there isn’t a better option on the market than the Baker Perkins ServoForm™ Mini.
Lunchbox Alchemy
Having a precise machine that I could run by myself saved us all kinds of money from different angles.
Nova Farms
I have had to customize every piece of equipment in this building except the Servo Form Mini.
MidWest Roots
You are not just buying the equipment you are getting amazing service as well.
My Green Network
I know I can scale when I need to and it’s huge, we are producing for some of the largest brands in California.
Lunchbox Alchemy
50% of our labor was saved after we got the ServoForm Mini, we experience less waste, because now we’re getting more accurate pours than when we were we were hand scraping.
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