First orders for microwave pioneer

ADVANCED Microwave Technologies (AMT), a Falkirk-based engineering company, has won its first two orders for a new device following a demonstration project at Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh.

AMT has created machines to pasteurise fruit juice while still retaining the original colour and nutrients, such as anti-oxidants and vitamins.

The company - which was founded in 2008 by managing director Douglas Armstrong and technical director Yuriy Zadyraka, who has close links with the General Physics Institute in Moscow - has also demonstrated the equipment's use in cooking meats such as black pudding and haggis.

Armstrong said: "Current methods for cooking large quantities of meat cost about 50,000 or 60,000 per tonne but our method costs only one-fifth of that."