Extruded snacks, cereals in application, testing, trial center
Your playground for extrusion innovation.

Scale Your Extrusion Innovations and Train Your Teams with Absolute Confidence.

Access world-class extrusion lines, international food scientists, and standardized testing across our global application centers.
 

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Your playground for extrusion innovation.

Scale Your Extrusion Innovations and Train Your Teams with Absolute Confidence.

Access world-class extrusion lines, international food scientists, and standardized testing across our global application centers.
 


Success in extrusion demands the right technology, precise parameters, and experienced partners. At our specialized centers in Minneapolis and Uzwil, you can de-risk your next launch or breathe new efficiency into your current operations. Replicate your precise production environment on our complete food-grade pilot plants, collaborate with global experts to optimize formulas, and provide hands-on training for your team on both new and existing solutions. Transition seamlessly from trial to industrial scale with the hard data to back every decision.

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What you can do at our research and training centers

Run confidential trials

Test new processes, alternative raw materials, and new formulations on our PolyTwin twin-screw platform. Adjust parameters in real time. Take samples back to your R&D team.

Co-develop with our experts

Refine textures, dial in process control, and design the complete line — from handling, weighing, and dosing through preconditioning, extrusion, flaking, coating, and drying. Your line doesn't start or stop at the extruder.

Train your team

Build operator and R&D skills with hands-on extrusion courses, at our centers or on-site at your facility.

Our Extruded End-Product Capabilities

Bring your raw materials and run them through a complete, step-by-step validated extrusion line with our team. Our process expertise spans four core extruded end-product categories, ensuring your final product is carefully refined from initial formula to high-quality market readiness on the exact twin-screw equipment you will rely on for commercial scale-up.

extruded bear shaped cereals
multiple bowls of extruded savory snacks like finger chips, cheetos, pasta shaped snacks
Alternative plant-based protein showing authentic extruded fake meat
variety of kibbles and pet food snacks

Cereals

Ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, flakes, direct- and indirect-expanded cereals and high-protein options

Snacks

Puffed and extruded savory snacks, specialty breadcrumbs, snack and snack bar inclusions, and high-protein options

Plant-based proteins

Texturized vegetable proteins and meat analogs

Pet food

Dry kibble, treats and aqua feed

Application Center Extrusion Courses

Discover our complete lineup of hands-on extrusion courses. From specialized in-lab sessions at our state-of-the-art facilities to tailored on-site training at your own location, find the program that fits your team's needs.

Proactive Support for Continuous Extrusion Excellence

Maintain continuous operational excellence with Bühler's proactive support network. Protect your throughput with custom Service Agreements, leverage RemoteCare for predictive troubleshooting, or partner with our engineers for a Performance Assessment Workshop to uncover hidden capacity in your current setup.


Meet the next generation of twin-screw extruders

The modular concept of the Nutrex 7 twin-screw extruder helps you adapt to changing applications, while its focus on hygienic design, usability, and dependable operation supports safe, consistent production.


Integrated solutions for your line

Did you know we offer process solutions both before and after your extruder? From material handling, mixing, weighing and dosing, and batching to downstream steps like preconditioning, flaking, coating, and drying, we can help you design a complete, integrated process line. 

Bühler Minneapolis

Contact us today!

Bühler Minneapolis


buhler.minneapolis@buhlergroup.com

+1 763 847 9900

13105 12th Avenue North

Plymouth, MN 55441