Cooling Die Offers HMMA Meat Substitute Manufactures Significantly Greater Flexibility
Coperion offers the MEGAtex cooling die for manufacturing plant-based HMMA (High Moisture Meat Analogue) meat substitutes. The texturizing unit is designed especially for use with the ZSK Food Extruder.
The ZSK Food Extruder and the MEGAtex cooling die are the core technologies within the high moisture extrusion process that generates meat analogues from plant proteins with a dense, fibrous structure that closely resembles lean animal meat.
For many years, Coperion has been a proven supplier of production systems for plant-based meat substitute products. In the HMMA manufacturing process, protein-rich raw materials are first mixed with water and worked into a homogeneous mass in a ZSK Food Extruder. This mass is then pressed through the MEGAtex cooling die, where the meat-like texture is formed and a solid strand is discharged for further processing.
With the MEGAtex cooling die, Coperion has developed a discharge for HMMA production that allows for various textures for meat substitutes. Moreover, Coperion has equipped the MEGAtex cooling die with features that simplify handling and make both recipe and configuration changes possible with just a few quick adjustments.
