Clextral  

Tampa,  FL 
United States
https://www.clextral.com

• Booth: 911

World-class extrusion technology for pet food and treats

Clextral’s extrusion systems give you total flexibility to process dry, semi-moist, high moisture foods and treats. You can easily customize products for specific pet profiles with recipes for individual breed, gender, age, energy needs and nutritional requirements...all on the same versatile system! And satisfy pet parents with products that are convenient to store and serve, esthetically pleasing, and provide the best quality and value for their investment. 

Brands: Evolum, Evolum+, Preconditioner+, Rotante

 Press Releases

• Innovative products take shape at Clextral’s Tampa Test Center (Sep 16, 2021)

  Clextral’s pet food experts bring decades of experience to help you reach your product goals, whether testing new ingredients, formulating new products, refreshing flagship brands, or creating the next pet food sensation. Our Test Center in Tampa, Florida, is dedicated to developing new products and improving processes. Design, laboratory testing, prototyping, small batch processing, and industrial simulation are performed independently and confidentially.

  The center is equipped with the new EVOLUM+ twin screw extruder, drying system and modular clip-on ancillaries for shaping, co-extrusion, coating (preconditioning, degassing, cutting, bi-coloration, laminating). Our on-site process engineers and research scientists assist with product development and recommend product formulation and production platforms.

• Process tasty and functional pet treats (Sep 16, 2021)

  Clextral twin-screw extrusion systems give processors the tools to make innovative and creative pet treats that are tasty for pets, appealing to consumers and enhance brand loyalty. Pet treats can aid animal health: for cleaning teeth, fighting bad breath and other veterinary uses. Increasingly, pet food producers are proposing nutraceuticals, which are nutritional supplements with pharmacological virtues.

  Clextral twin-screw technology enables pet food makers to control all process parameters to produce exactly the features they require: chewiness, crispiness, color (including multi-color processing), degree of hardness or suppleness, size, shape, airiness, flavor, etc. Recipes can be customized to cater to specific criteria: animal species, size, gender, age, energy requirements, health virtues, etc. Clextral systems integrate a wide range of ingredients into pet treats as well as additives such as texturing agents and flavor enhancers.

• Extend your product line with filled pet foods and treats (Sep 16, 2021)

  Petfood pillows are made with co-extrusion, is a 2-step process that combines two distinct characteristics: a crisp cereal based shell and a soft filling. The EVOLUM® pinching former offers maximum flexibility and creativity in shaping coextruded products in traditional or innovative shapes: pillows, triangles, tubes, bars, balls, sticks, ovals, diamond-shaped, and other specialty profiles.

  Processors can easily add variety and new flavor profiles to an existing product with this technology. Clextral’s co-extrusion platform is a clip-on module that enables processing of both filled and unfilled products on the same twin screw extruder.

• High moisture foods from many protein sources (Sep 16, 2021)

  Process hearty, protein-rich foods with real meat fiber, taste and mouthfeel from multiple protein sources: vegetable, animal, insect and more. Many innovative products are processed in the twin screw extruder using specific screw and barrel profiles that transform the proteins into the high moisture meat analog for pet food and treats.

  Versatility is a key factor in these products, as they offer a wide range of physical attributes in terms of fibration; sheets or longitudinal, surface appearance; smooth, rough, shiny, matte, even or marbled, color - light (chicken, pork or tuna-colored) or dark (beef colored), texture; consistent, firm, soft, or elastic. Many flavor profiles are possible, with virtually any flavor combination, to appeal to different pet demographics.

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