EnWave Corporation has announced that its vacuum-microwave toll drying facility, REVworx, is open for business. REVworx offers on-demand contract manufacturing services for the production of high-quality, vacuum-microwave dried snack and ingredient applications for food companies of all sizes.

REVworx is reportedly the first large-scale vacuum-microwave toll processing facility in North America that offers drying services for third-parties. REVworx offers flexible production capabilities, filling the growing demand for consumer products made using EnWave’s proprietary technology.

Source: EnWave Corporation

REVworx will allow companies to bring innovative vacuum-microwave dried products to market and will reduce risk by lowering the upfront capital investment, increasing speed to market, and allowing companies to launch their products and prove out the value proposition of using REV technology.

Located at EnWave’s head office in Vancouver, Canada, the REVworx facility incorporates upstream and downstream equipment required to process food applications at scale. According to EnWave, the REV technology yields products that retain superior flavor and nutrition, have unique textures and elongated shelf lives. REVworx is equipped with a 60 kW tray-based REV machine, a 10 kW REV unit for smaller batch production, a commercial scale air dryer for pre-processing, preparation equipment such as cutters, corers and slicers for fruits and vegetables, a fryer and seasoning station, and a bulk packaging area for shipment preparation.

The facility has been designed to meet the highest level of quality standards, and the company is pursuing Safe Quality Food (SQF) certification, confirming the company’s commitment to a culture of food safety and operational excellence in food safety management. Certification 84 SQF requires three consecutive months of line trial production, which will be completed March to May 2022, with full SQF certification expected for June 2022.

The opening of the REVworx facility will open opportunities for both global and local food manufacturers to not only create new food ingredients and snacks for commercialization, but also enable growers to salvage and process imperfect produce and reduce overall food waste. Lower grade produce can now easily be processed and purposed into consumable food products, such as powders, fragments and pieces for sale with the support of EnWave’s R&D team of dehydration experts.

For more information, visit the EnWave website.