Advanced Food-Tech Solutions is the European technical service partner for MicroThermics, bringing lab-scale and pilot-scale UHT, HTST, aseptic and pasteurisation processing systems to Europe with installation, training, technical support and spare parts. MicroThermics, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, manufactures laboratory and pilot-scale thermal processing systems that accurately simulate commercial production. Their systems cover UHT, HTST, aseptic processing and pasteurisation, using direct steam injection, direct steam infusion and indirect tubular heating, so that a process developed at bench scale reproduces on the production line. The systems are built for research and development, product development, shelf-life studies, ingredient screening, clean-label reformulation, process validation and scale-up. Because they run at commercially representative temperatures, hold times and shear conditions, results transfer to full-scale equipment instead of requiring re-development. Typical users are food and beverage manufacturers, ingredient suppliers, dairy and plant-based beverage producers, universities and research institutes, and contract manufacturers developing new products. Advanced Food-Tech Solutions provides the European technical service layer for these systems. That covers equipment selection and specification against the intended application, installation and commissioning, operator and technical training, process development support, troubleshooting, preventive maintenance guidance, and supply of spare parts and consumables. Support is delivered on site across the European Union and remotely worldwide. Alongside equipment support, AFTS provides the process engineering that turns a lab-scale trial into a validated commercial process: scheduled process development, hold-tube design and residence time analysis, lethality and F-value calculation, heat penetration and temperature distribution studies, sterilisation-in-place validation, and process deviation evaluation, with documentation prepared to FDA, USDA, 21 CFR Part 113, PMO and EU requirements. The combination is deliberate. A processor buying a lab-scale UHT or aseptic system usually needs both the equipment and the process expertise to use it correctly. AFTS supplies both, backed by its own thermal process engineering software, the AdvThermaLogic suite, used in the same work. Advanced Food-Tech Solutions is based in Athens, Greece, available across the European Union for on-site work and worldwide for remote consulting. Official website: https://www.advfood.tech — Contact: info@advfood.tech
