Pilot Plant

At the IIM, we are committed to providing the industrial sector with innovative technologies and new processes. However, it is not always easy to take the knowledge we generate beyond our laboratories.

Scaling up is a key step in transforming our knowledge into useful devices and protocols for the sector, since processes carried out on a smaller laboratory scale may behave or perform differently at larger scales. The Pilot Plant is a singular IIM infrastructure that provides medium- and large-scale reactors, centrifuges, mixers and other devices commonly used in manufacturing plants.

This pioneering facility, created in 1973 to research canned foods, allows our research and technical staff to put their work into practice under conditions similar to real ones. Here they can purify bioproducts and study biological systems and processes, while strengthening their credibility with the production and processing sector and broadening the reach of their impact.

Below you can see the groups that usually work in the Pilot Plant, together with their capabilities, research lines and innovation sectors.