Analytical products and solutions

Perten Instruments provides quality control solutions to the grain, flour, feed and food industries, and has extensive experience from a wide range of applications. Please use the links below to find out what we can do for you.

Grain collection and trade

From small country elevators to large port facilities, we help cooperatives, private traders, inspection laboratories and governmental agencies to monitor grain quality, segregate and optimize grain use.

Breeding

Identify your most promising genotypes by using the wide array of analyzers available from Perten Instruments. Several of our instruments were designed with small breeder samples in mind.

Flour Milling

From Falling Number, flour ash analysis and gluten characterization to rheological data, Perten Instruments has the tools you need for full quality control.

Oilseed milling

Determine the composition of oilseeds at intake for immediate pricing decisions, monitor and optimize the extraction and refining processes, and verify that finished oils and by-products meet specifications.

Ethanol production

We provide analytical instruments to determine the quality of raw materials, mimic the liquefaction process, evaluate enzymes and reaction temperatures, monitor fermentation and verify specifications of by-products such as Distiller’s Dried Grain.

Malting

Feed Milling

Test ingredients at intake for enegy value, protein and more, in only 6 second. Optimize formulations, control your process, and verify finished product quality. Analyze degree of cook in extruded feed products.

Aquafeed

We offer a wide range of instruments for testing of ingredients and finished aquafeeds. It includes compositional analysis as well as starch gelatinization characteristics and determination of degree of cook.

Petfood

Improve product quality and reduce costs simultaneously. Our analyzers test the quality and composition of ingredients, process intermediaries, and finished wet and dry petfood.

Starch production

Using our Rapid Visco Analyser and NIR instruments you will be able to characterize raw materials, process them efficiently, and make sure your finished starches have the right properties.

Food general

Our food quality control solutions are diverse and include a wide range of applications in baked products, brewing, meat processing, French fries, pasta manufacturing, breakfast cereals and more.

Sugar production

NIR instruments for rapid and accurate testing of raw materials, intermediates and finished sugar.

Dairy

We provide analytical solutions for dairy products which help you optimize your production processes, as well as improve product consistency and fine-tune characteristics.

Snackfoods

Whether your products are baked, extruded or deep fried, our analytical solutions will help you save costs and improve quality. The types of analyses we offer include compositional analysis, starch gelatinization characteristics and degree of cook.

Tobacco

Perten offers at-line and on-line NIR instruments for tobacco analysis.