WHO WE ARE
We are engineers, scientists, bakers and awkward people
Food Coating Expertise (FCE) assists at several stages of a coating project: product formulation, ingredient sourcing, experiment supervision, equipment design, process engineering, plant implementation, and production audit. It requires product, ingredient, and equipment to combine into a process.
The coating involves applying liquid or powder ingredients to a food product.
The scope may be palatability, preservation, adding a barrier, or just handling.
The coating is done in various ways, like dribbling, spraying, dipping, and mixing.
The coating step itself is inserted in a production process between a forming process and a finishing step.
We don’t achieve the coating until the topical layer is set, and the product can be further processed and packed.
The whole operation is submitted to the procedures and regulations attached to food production.
“ Expertise lies in combining facts, coordinating acts, and bridging gaps. It is as much hands-on practice as a learned science. ”
Loic Denoyelle
Founder of FCE
WHAT WE DO
The platform that helps
you develop your project
A coating application is usually a long experience, full of stops and starts. The coating combines numeral factors to achieve a satisfactory result. Many actors are involved (ingredient producers, machine manufacturers, R&D, engineering, marketing, and quality staff, to name a few), each of them having a nugget or a treasure of knowledge to share.
Plant Implementation
We are assembling the elements of the puzzle in its frame.
Product formulation
We are testing the critical step on quantity large enough to scale up.
Ingredient sourcing
We are adapting a design solution to handle both product and ingredients.
Process engineering
We are assembling the elements of the puzzle in its frame.
Trial supervision
We are testing the critical step on quantity large enough to scale up.
Equipment design
We are adapting a design solution to handle both product and ingredients.
OUR PARTNERS
The FCE experts
Bringing together knowledge and practice in food development, process engineering and implementation.
Loïc Denoyelle
In parallel with assignments in food engineering, extrusion, coating, and spraying, I have been involved in Food Coating Expertise since its origin in 2005, developing and implementing coating processes.
Thierry Carbonell
With an experience in manufacturing and installing powder transfer systems, I created Sugar Inprocess specializing in the engineering of complete plants for sugar transfer and related powder applications.
Frédéric Menguy
Previously Production Manager at the confectionery manufacturer Dragées Pecou, I wished to combine theory with the talents of practice and assist innovative artisans and established industries.