Process Knowledge

BCH has developed a model of Innovation for working together with everyone in the food supply chain, food retailers, food manufacturers, Development Chefs’ Network and Universities.

BCH are involved in bringing interested parties together to develop the next generation of machinery for the food industry. One of the interested parties is the Development Chefs’ Network and they have been working with BCH to replicate an innovative, individual chef-prepared meal for mass production.

This process commenced with both parties discussing a ready meal recipe in detail so that BCH could develop the most appropriate food engineering process solution to achieve both presentation and quality of the meal already prepared in a chef’s kitchen. The Chefs and Process Engineers then carried out trials in the BCH Innovation Centre to compare the final product tasting.

BCH believe it takes a lot more than a Centre full of apparatus to produce a new and exciting piece of equipment for the food and confectionery industries. The key to any development is the knowledge base behind the idea. With a product range dating back to 1835 and a combined process knowledge base covering food, confectionery and jam production totalling over 150 years we feel confident in finding a solution to your problem.

Allied to our process knowledge is in house expertise in electrical, software, engineering and an experienced design team. The Innovation Centre not only has access to this team but is also the focal point for the team when developing products.

This knowledge is available to our customers when they come to BCH to develop their own product solutions.