NEWS RELEASE
SPX FLOW and SIG Expand Collaboration with Dubai Innovation Center Upgrade
Charlotte, N.C., July 29, 2025 - SPX FLOW is expanding its testing capabilities in the Middle East through its collaboration with SIG by enhancing its APV processing equipment housed at the SIG Test Filling Center—part of the SIG Customer Experience Hub in Dubai. This enhancement enables advanced trials, including fermentation, using APV technologies tailored to regional food and beverage needs.
Launched in 2021, the current APV pilot line includes a FlexMix Instant vacuum mixer for preparing complex formulations, followed by a multi-UHT pilot system for thermal treatment. This enables the line to process up to 1,000 liters (L) of test product per hour. This first installation introduced SPX FLOW’s APV thermal and mixing technologies to the Middle East.
“Since installing our equipment, the growing demand for trials from customers overseas has revealed the need for broader capabilities,” shared Thomas Leroy, Global Head of Innovation Centers at SPX FLOW. “With new fermentation and clean-in-place (CIP) upgrades now available, we’re ready to support more customers with faster product development.”
The latest expansion includes:
- A two-line APV CIP station to enhance sanitary product testing
- A new fermentation line that features a 1,000 L tank specifically designed for viscous products
- The line includes an APV plate heat exchanger cooler to support high-quality yogurt production from dairy or plant-based materials
“This advancement significantly elevates the capabilities of our SIG Test Filling Center,” said Christian Derusco, Head of Technical Service & Innovation–IMEA at SIG. “By enhancing our existing setup, we have improved the efficiency rate of test filling and provided customers with processing data that accurately reflects full-scale factory conditions, enabling us to better serve both aseptic fermented and fresh fermented dairy categories.”
With several successful trials already underway, the Center continues to serve as a strategic hub for SPX FLOW and SIG customers across the region—enabling end-to-end innovation from formulation to packaging. Full commissioning is expected to be complete by next month, further accelerating collaborative development.
To learn more about SPX FLOW’s Innovation Centers around the globe, visit: https://www.spxflow.com/capabilities/innovation-centers
Image:
About SPX FLOW, Inc.
Based in Charlotte, N.C., SPX FLOW, Inc. improves the world through innovative and sustainable solutions. The company's product offering is concentrated in process technologies that perform mixing, blending, fluid handling, separation, thermal heat transfer and other activities that are integral to processes performed across a wide variety of nutrition, health, and industrial markets. SPX FLOW has operations in more than 25 countries and sales in more than 140 countries. To learn more about SPX FLOW, please visit www.spxflow.com.
About SIG:
SIG is a leading solutions provider of packaging for better – better for our customers, for consumers, and for the world. With our unique portfolio of aseptic carton, bag-in-box, and spouted pouch, we work in partnership with our customers to bring food and beverage products to consumers around the world in a safe, sustainable, and affordable way. Our technology and outstanding innovation capabilities enable us to provide our customers with end-to-end solutions for differentiated products, smarter factories, and connected packs, all to address the ever-changing needs of consumers. Sustainability is integral to our business, and we strive to create a regenerative food packaging system.
Founded in 1853, SIG is headquartered in Neuhausen, Switzerland, and listed at the SIX Swiss Exchange. The skills and experience of our approximately 9,600 employees worldwide enable us to respond quickly and effectively to the needs of our customers in over 100 countries. In 2024, SIG produced 57 billion packs and generated €3.3 billion in revenue. SIG also has an AAA ESG rating by MSCI, a Platinum CSR rating by EcoVadis, and is included in the FTSE4Good Index. For more information, visit www.sig.biz
Media Contact:
Melissa Buscher, Chief Communications and Marketing Officer
Melissa.Buscher@spxflow.com