Technologies for the food industry Technology Offers

Arkadiusz Rudawski, PhD posted this:
Technology Broker at Cracow University of Technology

Vertical centrifugal honey dehydrator (VCHD)/honey dryer Proposed VCHD allows the beekeepers (owners of small and medium apiaries) to dehydrate honey faster and cheaper than with the use of products available on the market nowadays. The cost of the VCHD is also lower than the cost of typical commercial honey dehydrators. What’s more. The VCHD is also multifunctional. It allows for: creaming honey, drying pollen and, after minor reconfiguration, it can act as a honey centrifuge.

Vertical centrifugal honey dehydrator (VCHD)/honey dryer

Pascal Mayer posted this:
CEO at Alphanosos

Alphanosos - Leader in botanical plant-based natural antimicrobial control, well-being and medicine Alphanosos is active in animal feed, medical foods, and pharma, and with the right venture partners, to become a leader in botanical plant-based natural antimicrobial control, well-being and medicine through its R&D based on proprietary Artificial Intelligence. Alphanosos’ first patent-pending discoveries are incorporated into commercial products and generate its first revenues.

Unitat de Valorització de la URV posted this:
Licensing Manager at Fundació URV

Automatic feature descriptor in agriculture images using neural networks Software that recognizes user-defined objects in aerial images for agriculture and derives quantitative estimators for plant count (N), green area index (GAI), growth stage (GS), deficient leaf area fraction (DLAF), and weeds area fraction (WAF), and potentially further measures. It employs a pre-trained multi-layer neural network model to classify regions of an image. The network is trained based on good examples of distinct types of objects that are provided by experts in aerial photography for agriculture. Afterwards, any provided aerial image or video can be analyzed with the pretrained software trained once.

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC posted this:

ICHNAEA A Software System for the Microbial Source Tracking Problem A software system for the Microbial Source Tracking (MST) problem has been developed in order to solve the problems of the current predictive models. It provides the accuracy and the precision of the prediction, the estimation for both the degree of dilution and the age of the pollution for the analyzed example. Partners to license the system and/or to establish commercial agreements along with technical cooperation are sought.

ICHNAEA A Software System for the Microbial Source Tracking Problem

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC posted this:

Novel biobased aromatic and aliphatic polyesters from carbohydrates New biobased aromatic and aliphatic polyesters that can replace isosorbidebased polyesters with improved properties (mechanical, thermal, optical and chemical resistance) have been patented. Partners to further develop the system and/or to establish commercial agreements along with technical cooperation are sought.

Novel biobased aromatic and aliphatic polyesters from carbohydrates

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC posted this:

Food composition based on babassu A gluten-free food composition comprising extruded babassu flour. Alternative and novel material, which possesses future commercial potential from those of conventionally used packaging forms used by the food industry The Challenge

Food composition based on babassu A gluten-free food composition comprising extruded babassu flour. Alternative and novel material, which possesses future commercial potential from those of conventionally used packaging forms used by the food industry

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas posted this:

Isolation of the unsaponifiable fraction from oils and minor compounds mmeeaassuurreemmeenntt The Spanish Research Council (CSIC) has developed a method to isolate the unsaponifiable fraction of fats and oils using a supported liquid extraction (SLE) column, its later purification with preparative HPLC and its characterization and quantification using gas chromatography (GC). This new procedure implies an important improvement regarding the current methods. Companies of the instrumental analytical chemistry field (scientific and technological equipment) are being sought to collaborate through a patent licence agreement. An offer for Patent Licensing

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University of Vigo posted this:

Valorization of whey and vinasses by producing antimicrobial extracts using biotechnological processes This invention is based on the production of antimicrobial extracts with potential application against pathogenic microorganisms. The biotechnological production of antimicrobial metabolites was carried out using Lactobacillus plantarum strains. Two industrial wastes, whey, and wine distilled lees (or vinasses) were assayed in order to make the process economically competitive with regard to the chemical one. The extracts are mainly composed by lactic acid, 3-phenyllactic and bacteriocins. Whey was enzymatically hydrolyzed and the solutions were fermented sequentially or simultaneously. The bioprocesses were carried out continuously or discontinuously

University of Vigo posted this:

Procedure for the extraction of biosurfactants contained in corn steep liquors Nowadays, most of the pharmaceutical and cosmetic products in the market contain chemically synthesized surfactants in its composition. In many cases, these surfactants are the same as those used in regular cleanup activities. In order to get more natural and biocompatible products, it would be interesting to include natural surfactants instead of chemical surfactants in the preparation of these pharmaceutical and cosmetic products. These biosurfactants are also present in the formulation of greener nanoparticles, replacing the chemical surfactants currently used in the preparation thereof. Most biosurfactants have antimicrobial activity, which would improve the properties of certain nanoparticles, as well as many pharmaceutical and cosmetic products. The main disadvantage of biosurfactants industrial production is related to the high cost compared to chemically synthesized surfactant production. The solution proposed by the Chemical Engineering research group at the University of Vigo, is the development of eco-friendly simple extraction of biosurfactant from a corn wet-milling industry byproduct, such as corn wash liquors, better known as "corn steep liquor (CSL)", which could compete in terms of cost production with its chemical counterparts.

jaume mir posted this:
CEO at Biochemize SL

Production of D-panose through an innovative microbial fermentation process D-panose (α-D-Glucopyranosyl-(1->6)-α-D-glucopyranosyl-(1->4)-D-glucose) is a high value tri-saccharide molecule that has been proposed as a low caloric content sugar (i), as a promoter for probiotics (ii) and having outstanding anti-oxidant. anti-tumoral properties (iii). Currently this rare sugar is obtained by chemical synthesis, and this is the reason for its extremely high cost/ price (1) and poor industrial uses (2). At Biochemize SL we have developed a (very simple) production process that leads the production of high pure (more than 99%) D-panose, through a microbial fermentation process using a recombinant bacteria strain engineered by us, at a significantly lower operational/production cost. We offer this process to be operated by/ be licensed to a manufacturing company operating in this area.

Production of D-panose through an innovative microbial fermentation process

Servei de Gestió de la Innovació posted this:
Licensing Manager at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC

Stackable container for selective collection of glass bottles New and customizable system to collect glass bottles. This system allows an easy operation of loading, transporting and unloading the bottles in the treatment plant prior to subsequent reuse. Reduces the contamination caused by the process for the production of new bottles, contributes to reduce the cost of waste management and Implies cost savings for producers of wine and beer bottles.

Stackable container for selective collection of glass bottles

UACOOPERA University of Aveiro posted this:
Technology Transfer Office at uacoopera

Immunoglobulin Y Purification, Its Products And Uses This invention describes a purification process of immunoglobulin Y from egg yolk in three stages, by applying precipitation methods, liquid-liquid extraction and ultracentrifugation. The present process allows to obtain immunoglobulin Y of high quality and with a purity >95%, in a simple and economic way, and applicable at an industrial scale.

Immunoglobulin Y Purification, Its Products And Uses

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas posted this:

Antibodies to measure residual levels of mycotoxin ochratoxin A in food CSIC and the University of Valencia have developed antibodies capable of determining ochratoxin A in food and ensure compliance with legislation on food products regarding the presence of this mycotoxin. Antibodies have been generated using novel functionalized derivatives of ochratoxin A. These immunoreagents have shown their efficacy in both direct and indirect competitive ELISA to detect concentrations close to parts per trillion. We are looking for companies interested in patent licensing for the development of fast, sensitive and portable kits for the analysis of ochratoxin A in foods and beverages based on these antibodies. The license of the patent is offered Effective, fast and accurate detection Ochratoxin A has a higher incidence in cereals, wine, juices and coffee One of the most harmful and frequent mycotoxins in food is ochratoxin A. Its presence is a real problem for human health due to its toxicity, and it causes significant economic losses to various productive sectors. The main fungi producing ochratoxin A belongs to the genera Penicillium and Aspergillus, and the products with the highest incidence are cereals, wine, juices and coffee. The small concentrations at which this potent toxin is usually found commonly require the use of sophisticated chromatographic methods. An alternative is the generation of antibodies against ochratoxin A with superior performance to the existing ones that allow this toxin being recognized with high affinity and specificity. These immunoreagents can be easily implemented in various analytical platforms, from the simplest, such as competitive ELISAs and immunochromatographic strips, to more complex, like chips or biosensors of different types, which allows us to simultaneously analyze a large number of samples in low-resource settings such as warehouses, cellars and even farmlands. Main applications and advantages  Ochratoxin A derivatives functionalized at new positions have been synthesized that faithfully preserve the structure and characteristics of this potent mycotoxin.  These new compounds have proven to be extremely efficient as haptens to generate antibodies capable of recognizing ochratoxin A with an affinity and selectivity not previously described.  Immunoassays developed using these immunoreagents have been shown to be very sensitive, allowing analysis of ochratoxin A at levels close to 10 parts per trillion.  These new methods are faster than instrumental procedures, especially when analyzing complex samples such as wine and coffee.  The generated immunoreagents are easily adaptable to portable methods, such as ELISA kits or immunochromatographic strips. Patent status Prioriy patent application filed suitable for international extension For more information contact with: Mª Jesus Añón Marín Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Tel.: +34 963900022 E-mail: mjanon@iata.csic.es

Antibodies to measure residual levels of mycotoxin ochratoxin A in food

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas posted this:

Biocatalysts for the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry made from used batteries The CSIC has developed a system that use the black mass of the used batteries to synthesize biocatalysts with a great capacity to synthesize products widely used in the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry, such as aromas and flavorings. Companies interested in exploiting the technology under a patent license are sought. An offer for Patent Licensing

Biocatalysts for the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry made from used batteries

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas posted this:

Stress and metabolic monitoring system to improve fish production CSIC through the Instituto de Acuicultura “Torre de la Sa l” and the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona - Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, and the Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria have developed a novel smart system which warns about changes on the fish behavior responding to external factors which are controllable in a fish farm. The system is a small, less invasive and harmless device that allows fish farmers to identify stressed fish and to perform selective breeding in a more efficient manner. This helps to set more strict and reliable welfare fish standards. Industrial partners dedicated to the manufacture or development of fish farming (vaccines, feed) and/or fish farms monitoring products are being sought to collaborate through a patent licence agreement. An offer for Patent Licensing

Stress and metabolic monitoring system to improve fish production

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