Food & Feed Extrusion

MONOMEX works to create a food system suitable for the future by designing and manufacturing machines that produce healthy and sustainable food for everyone. While a growing population means an ever-increasing demand for food, poor quality nutrition remains a significant risk factor for disease. However, Monomex works closely with its customers and develops innovative new solutions. It is estimated that by the middle of this century an additional 265 million tonnes of protein will be needed to meet the demand of the world population. Finding new protein sources is very important.

Extrusion cooking method is defined as; It is the process of shaping mixtures containing starch and protein brought to appropriate moisture content and particle size by baking them under mechanical shear stress, high pressure and temperature created with the help of a worm screw rotating in a cylindrical channel. Industrially produced foodstuffs can be given the desired texture, shape and rehydration characteristics thanks to the MONOMEX extrusion cooking technique. Extruders, which were initially developed as an economical method to gelatinize starches, have been used in recent years to process a wide range of food groups, with increased capacity as well as reduced production costs with the MONOMEX extrusion technique, unlike other industrial cooking methods.