Our
facilities are available for commercial hire.
Please
contact us for further information.
Technical Facilities
Conference Facilities
- Conference Room
- Meeting Rooms
Sensory
& Tasting Suite
The Sensory and Tasting Suite is available for hire to businesses requiring a professional presentation area within which to present their products to end customers or to discuss their requirements with suppliers.
Sensory Evaluation Services
Trained and untrained panels of up to 40 people able
to conduct bespoke product evaluation tests.
Retail Product Cooking Guideline Assessment / Provision

Micro and Chemistry Labs


Microbiological Trouble Shooting
- Micro Assessment and Business Support
- Interpretation of Micro Results
- Action Planning Upon Problem Product
- Environmental Swabbing Results
Nutritional Analysis
Microbiological Shelf Life Testing
Pesticide Residue Testing / Analysis

Factory Process Area


Our factory process area is available for hire to businesses requiring a food factory grade area within which to trial, manufacture and train-out new products and processes.
Our current line equipment includes:
- Multihead weigher
- Tray sealing line
- Metal Detection & Check weighing Facilities
- Gas Flushing (CO2 N2 O2)
- Pack Leak Detection Units
- Vacuum Packing
- Bench Scales
- Bench Silverson Mixer
- Bench Homogeniser
- Brookfield Viscometer
- Turbo depositor unit
- Bench pH meter
- Blast Chilling / Freezing cabinet

Conference Facilities


The Holbeach campus is dedicated to providing a high quality service, from initial contact right through to the event itself.
Clients can be confident in the campus's ability to host and deliver highly successful, efficiently organised, academic and non-academic conferences, seminars and exhibitions.
We have a large conference suite, and several small meeting rooms which are all available for hire.
National Centre for Food Manufacturing
Minerva House
Holbeach Technology Park
Park Road, Holbeach
Spalding, PE12 7PT
