Botanical Process Development Centre
Bridging Raw Material and Commercial Plant
Mechotech engineers extraction and distillation plants. Our sister concern, Sureka Life Sciences, works on the botanical process and application side — sourcing, extraction application and ingredient know-how. The Process Development Centre is where those two capabilities meet: taking a raw material and a target specification through lab-scale process work before committing to a commercial plant design.
Raw Material Characterization
Understanding the botanical raw material — its source, form and the target compound or extract you want from it.
Lab Trial
Small-scale extraction trials to establish a workable process route for the material and target output.
Analytical Evaluation
Testing lab-trial output against the specification you need — purity, active-compound content and consistency.
Process Optimization
Refining process parameters — solvent, temperature, cycle time — jointly, before committing to a plant design.
Pilot Trial
Running the optimized process at a larger, pilot scale to confirm it holds up beyond the lab bench.
Mass Balance
Mechotech’s engineering team works out the material and energy balance the commercial plant needs to be designed around.
Scale-Up
Translating the validated lab/pilot process into commercial-scale process parameters and equipment requirements.
Plant Engineering
Mechotech engineers the extraction or distillation plant — equipment sizing, layout, utilities and compliance design.
Manufacturing
In-house fabrication of the plant to the approved engineering package.
Commissioning
Installation, commissioning and handover of the plant at your site.
Engineering & Plant Delivery
Mechotech engineers and manufactures the extraction and distillation plant once your process is defined — mass balance, equipment sizing, plant design, manufacturing and commissioning through to handover.
Botanical Process & Application
Sureka Life Sciences brings the botanical sourcing and extraction-application perspective — helping define what a workable lab-scale process looks like for your raw material and target specification, before that process is scaled into a commercial plant.
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Tell us about your botanical raw material and target specification — we'll help you work through process development before scoping a plant.
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