Messinger Engineering — About Us
Understand the Process.
At Messinger Engineering, we help food scientists, biotech companies and process engineers understand membrane processes before industrial scale-up.
We develop experimental laboratory systems, pilot plants and engineering methods for membrane filtration, separation, concentration and process development.
Our Engineering Approach
Industrial innovation begins long before a production plant is built. It begins with understanding the biological, physical and membrane processes that determine performance. Through experimental systems, engineering and pilot plant development, we enable our customers to generate the Engineering Knowledge needed to design robust, scalable and economically successful membrane processes.
Our Vision
Process Decoding
We believe that the next major innovations in food and biotechnology will not come simply from larger production plants. They will come from a deeper understanding of biological, physical and membrane-based processes.
Membrane processes already play a key role in food and biotechnology. They separate, concentrate, purify and fractionate molecules under comparatively mild conditions. This makes them especially valuable for proteins, enzymes, fermentation products, plant-based ingredients and many other sensitive compounds.
But the decisive factor is not only the membrane or the equipment. The decisive factor is the understanding of the process interactions: mass transfer, fouling, concentration polarization, pressure drop, flow conditions, cleaning behavior, product yield and scale-up all influence one another.
Companies that understand these interactions develop better processes. Industrial systems can be designed more accurately, operated more safely and implemented more economically. Process understanding reduces uncertainty — and uncertainty is one of the most expensive factors in industrial process development.
Understanding is not an academic exercise.
It is the most cost-effective form of engineering.
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Membrane systems and process plants realized from laboratory and pilot scale to industrial production.
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Developed, modified and automated systems for process understanding, scale-up and industrial implementation.
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Specialized membrane processes developed for separation, concentration and recovery of valuable molecules in food and biotech.
Alain Messinger
Founder and Managing Director
Experience in membrane processes, food engineering and biotechnology
Messinger Engineering was founded by Alain Messinger, a food engineer from ETH Zurich with more than three decades of experience in membrane process development, pilot plant design, automation and industrial implementation.
His work focuses on transforming experimental results into engineering knowledge: the practical understanding needed to design, scale and operate reliable membrane processes.
R&D Engineer, Unipektin AG, Switzerland
Philosophy, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2006, Natan GmbH
2016, Messinger Engineering