Process Development Center

Project Success. Guaranteed.

Bepex’s Process Development Center works with you and your team to develop, test, and implement your new process and product. And we guarantee the results.

Make Innovation Your Competitive Advantage

Innovation is never easy, but Bepex systemizes the process to ensure your success.

Our Process Development Center (PDC) provides the equipment, support, and expertise needed to bring your industrial process system to life.  We’ll work with you from your initial concept to a fully operational system – a system that we guarantee will perform as planned.

Your Partner in Innovation and Process Design

PROCESS VALIDATION + QUALITY ASSURANCE

Success Guaranteed

Expertly engineered products. Decades of process design experience. All capped by extensive performance testing in our Process Development Center. That’s why Bepex guarantees your system will scale and function in your commercial setting.

No Surprises Validation

From initial bench testing to full scale system validation, Bepex’s process development methodology is designed to ensure no-surprise, no-hassle installation, ramp up, and full production.

Testing Equipment, Process and Product

We not only test your equipment and process, but we also continually test the final product as it’s developed. Multiple onsite analytical laboratories provide real-time feedback on product characteristics and performance during development.

CUSTOMIZED PROCESS

Your Product Development Sandbox

Our Process Development Center serves as your sandbox. The Bepex approach in development and testing is customized to your vision and unique product and process design challenges. It’s where ingenuity, experience, and collaboration come together to create innovation.

Expert Guidance

Even our client’s most experienced engineers have often only developed a handful of systems. But we’ve developed thousands.  Bepex has more than 100 years of experience developing and testing continuous processing systems;  designing to handle over 5,000 different materials along the way. We’ll bring our experience to complement your team’s unique skill set.

Customized Start Up

Your system is unique, so are your start  up requirements. Once installed, our team of field service technicians, control engineers, and application engineers come on-site to provide start-up assistance; working to get your new system, processes, and workflows up and performing as expected as quickly as possible.

PROBLEM SOLVING

Expertise and More at Your Side

Our team has a passion for solving challenging solids processes. Sure, we’re staffed with process experts and mechanical engineers – but we also have mechanics, technicians, chemists, welders, machinists and even facility maintenance experts.  We attack problems from all possible angles to find the best solution.

Problems. Solved. On Demand.

Stuck on a new idea? Or current processes not working as expected? We like to sell equipment. But we live to solve problems. Give us a call. We can brainstorm, develop, and test to meet you where you are in your process and get you back on track moving forward.

After Sale Support

Problems after the sale? We’re here to help with immediate field service, plus operator training, process optimization, and troubleshooting. Our customer retention rate is high because, with almost a century of experience,  our customers know we’ve proven Bepex will be there long after the original sale.

Process Development Services

Process Development & Design

At Bepex, we believe product development and process design is a team sport. Our specialty is custom development for continuous process systems, working with our customers to develop their product, their process, or both.

Whether your product is still just an idea or is an established process looking for improvement, we can help. We jump start the process with a bench study. Then working together, we examine options for development; analyze and begin early process design; and start working to provide proof of concept, pilot testing, and concrete data for evaluation and decision making.

The process is straightforward and the goal is simple:  Provide the products, equipment, processes, workflows, data, and support you need to successfully launch and scale your project. 

And the result? Bepex provides a process guarantee ensuring that the commercial system we design together will perform as promised.

Process Development Center

At Bepex, our process engineers and designers live by a simple credo: No surprises.

While they love solving tough surprises in the development process, they hate surprises on your production floor.

That’s why they live and breathe life in the Process Development Center.

The 25,000 square-foot PDC is the facility they use to test and prove out equipment, systems and process design.  All of our Bepex proprietary process equipment is ready for use. Plus our components library includes more than 100 pieces of complementary equipment to model your entire processing system. And dedicated testing bays are designed to meet unique challenges such as sanitary processing, solvent recovery, and hazardous dust.

Come up with something really new? Our onsite machine shop can design and manufacture the component in hours, rather than waiting days for an outside shop.

But the heart of the PDC is people, not equipment. Our crew of process geeks include technicians, engineers, product development experts, chemists, welders, mechanics, and more. All there to ensure your project is a no-surprises success.

Pilot Scale Testing

At Bepex, we guarantee your success.

Pilot-scale testing allows Bepex to provide you with a performance guarantee on your new system. This guarantee promises that the system as designed and proven in our Process Development Center will scale and function as intended in your commercial setting. 

For Bepex, pilot-scale testing allows us to develop and design a system to meet your needs and provide proof of concept for our process technologies.  Using our library of complementary auxiliary equipment, we’ll test your entire system design – not just individual components. Our equipment not the best fit for your application? No problem. We’ll bring in alternative technologies to confirm process viability.

For our customers, it provides the chance to witness a pilot-scale simulation of their process. In some cases, the product generated is salable and can be packaged and sold to determine viability and market reception.

Following successful testing and demonstration, we scale our system design to your required commercial capacity.

Bench Testing

Sometimes, the biggest challenge in product design is not knowing what you don’t know.

Bench testing can provide clarity on processing options – and potential challenges – early in the development cycle.

Starting with as little as 100 grams of a representative material, whether raw feed or final product, our process development group works to analyze key properties, develop feedback on viability, generate scalable data, and create a preliminary testing plan to deliver proof of concept during pilot testing.

Process Development & Design

At Bepex, we believe product development and process design is a team sport. Our specialty is custom development for continuous process systems, working with our customers to develop their product, their process, or both.

Whether your product is still just an idea or is an established process looking for improvement, we can help. We jump start the process with a bench study. Then working together, we examine options for development; analyze and begin early process design; and start working to provide proof of concept, pilot testing, and concrete data for evaluation and decision making.

The process is straightforward and the goal is simple:  Provide the products, equipment, processes, workflows, data, and support you need to successfully launch and scale your project.

And the result? Bepex provides a process guarantee ensuring that the commercial system we design together will perform as promised.

Process Development Center

At Bepex, our process engineers and designers live by a simple credo: No surprises.

While they love solving tough surprises in the development process, they hate surprises on your production floor.

That’s why they live and breathe life in the Process Development Center.

The 25,000 square-foot PDC is the facility they use to test and prove out equipment, systems and process design.  All of our Bepex proprietary process equipment is ready for use. Plus our components library includes more than 100 pieces of complementary equipment to model your entire processing system. And dedicated testing bays are designed to meet unique challenges such as sanitary processing, solvent recovery, and hazardous dust.

Come up with something really new? Our onsite machine shop can design and manufacture the component in hours, rather than waiting days for an outside shop.

But the heart of the PDC is people, not equipment. Our crew of process geeks include technicians, engineers, product development experts, chemists, welders, mechanics, and more.  All there to ensure your project is a no-surprises success.

Pilot Scale Testing

At Bepex, we guarantee your success.

Pilot-scale testing allows Bepex to provide you with a performance guarantee on your new system. This guarantee promises that the system as designed and proven in our Process Development Center will scale and function as intended in your commercial setting.

For Bepex, pilot-scale testing allows us to develop and design a system to meet your needs and provide proof of concept for our process technologies.  Using our library of complementary auxiliary equipment, we’ll test your entire system design – not just individual components. Our equipment not the best fit for your application? No problem. We’ll bring in alternative technologies to confirm process viability.

For our customers, it provides the chance to witness a pilot-scale simulation of their process. In some cases, the product generated is salable and can be packaged and sold to determine viability and market reception.

Following successful testing and demonstration, we scale our system design to your required commercial capacity.

Bench Testing

Sometimes, the biggest challenge in product design is not knowing what you don’t know.

Bench testing can provide clarity on processing options – and potential challenges – early in the development cycle.

Starting with as little as 100 grams of a representative material, whether raw feed or final product, our process development group works to analyze key properties, develop feedback on viability, generate scalable data, and create a preliminary testing plan to deliver proof of concept during pilot testing.

CASE STUDY

Two-Stage Drying System for Cosmetics

We delivered a drying system as part of the process to create the base for cosmetic products.

The client was shipping product between facilities halfway through the drying process because they couldn’t get both stages done in one place.

We helped fix that and more.

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Performance. Guaranteed.

Learn more how the Bepex Product Development Center is your partner for innovation in product and process development. Our industry reputation says it all: We’re good…and we guarantee our results.

Reach out to a Bepex processing expert.

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