Innovation Centers & Labs

Discovering and developing sustainable solutions

Overview

Innovating a Better World

Our global network of innovation centers and test labs ensure that CPM is the most advanced technology and solutions partner in the industries we serve. Through our investment in innovation, we empower our customers to anticipate and address industry mega trends, drive continuous improvement in their business, and remain agile in an ever-evolving landscape.

Our innovation centers and test labs are equipped with the best and brightest people who are experts across industries and fields. Brimming with ideas, our skilled teams are future-forward thinkers with a penchant for developing, evaluating and driving new innovations.

Equipped with a wide range of systems and process equipment to support product and process development, as well as the ability to run scale-up testing under production conditions, our innovation centers and test labs are the places for exploring something new and better.

Our Global Innovation Centers & Labs

Innovation Center Spotlight

Turn your ideas into reality in one of our innovation centers with support and guidance from CPM.

Blaine, MN, USA

Innovation Center and Liquid Pilot Plant

Our CPM Crown Innovation Center and Liquid Pilot Plant provides a cutting-edge continuous process environment and world-class resource for manufacturers in the oilseed processing industry. The Innovation Center has simulated plant-processing operations within a controlled environment to discover new ways to optimize operations including improving yields, reducing energy and water usage and lowering operating costs. The Liquids Pilot Plant is a testing, validation, scaling, and commercialization facility for various liquid products, including Renewable diesel/HVO, Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), Edible oils, Oleochemicals, Specialty liquid extraction products.

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Innovation Centers & Labs

Our Test Labs

Waterloo, Iowa, USA – Test Lab

Waterloo, Iowa, USA - Test Lab Our Waterloo location serves the animal feed, oilseed, alternative fuel, and other industries and produces a wide variety of equipment including pellet mills, flaking mills, hammermills, roller mills, pellet crumblers and related aftermarket parts. The facility’s new state-of-the-art testing lab features a larger space for maneuverability and ease of use, upgraded ‘clean lab’ with private customer room, and wall-to-wall windows for full viewing of the testing area from the clean lab office area. Here, we help customers discover the exact processability of their materials and provide them with the best solutions for their optimal processing operation.

Ponca City, Oklahoma, USA: Test Lab

Ponca City, Oklahoma, USA: Test Lab The CPM Ponca City Test Lab is set up to perform a variety of testing capabilities in the consumer feed, animal feed, pet food, biomass, wood, ethanol, rendering, hemp markets, and more. Testing is performed on CPM equipment including hammermills, pellet mills, coolers, shredders/finishers, and briquetting presses. The equipment, in most cases, is smaller in scale than the actual equipment that is needed to handle the typical high throughput applications. Using the scaled down equipment, we can incorporate any number of technical approaches to scale up to the right size equipment for our customer’s specific application, offer a processing guarantee as a result, and give suggestions as to the proper equipment required and recommended.

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