ADVANCED COURSES ON PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF DRY PASTA, FRESH PASTA AND READY MEALS
6/2/2010
Source: Pavan Srl
www.pavan.com

Pavan Group will organize two new advanced courses on the production technology of dry pasta, fresh pasta and ready meals. These specific trainings are addressed to plant managers, production directors, R&D managers, technologists and pasta producers willing to improve their knowledge of the “state of the art” technology in the pasta production processing. The courses will alternate classes of didactic-scientific character with practical tests in laboratory and in workshop using the pilot machines and equipments available in the research and development area of Pavan.

The dry pasta course will take place from the 5th to the 9th of next July.
The main subjects concern: quality of raw materials and pasta, basics of rheology, kneading and extrusion, drying process and heat treatments on cereal flours, energy recovery and efficiency, packaging, maintenance and process automation, hygiene and hygienic safety, non-conventional pasta.

For those companies interested in the fresh pasta technology they could attend at the fresh and ready meals course from the 12th to the 14th of July 2010. The main topics of the training concern: unit operations in fresh pastas and ready meals production, raw materials characterisation and analytical methods, fresh pasta fillings, microbiological introduction and thermal treatment effects, shelf life (pasteurisation bases), hygiene and sanitisation, thermal treatment equipments, fresh pasta packaging, refrigeration chain.

Both courses will take place in Pavan headquarter in Galliera Veneta, Italy. For further information please write to school@pavan.com or visit the website www.pavan.com