Tate & Lyle opens innovation centre in Chicago

Rebecca Prescott14 Jun 2012

Tate & Lyle has officially opened its new Commercial and Food Innovation Centre in the Hoffman Estates suburb of Chicago, US.

The new centre will act as the cornerstone for Tate & Lyle’s increasing global network of research, food application and technical support laboratories and will serve as the global headquarters of its Innovation and Commercial Development unit.

The new includes food science research and processing laboratories, applications and technical services laboratories, a culinary demonstration kitchen, a full suite of consumer insight and sensory testing facilities, pilot plant and prototype manufacturing facilities, and extensive global communications capabilities.

Olivier Rigaud, president, Speciality Food Ingredients said, “The centre’s state-of–the-art facilities together with our highly skilled and experienced teams of scientists, marketers and product managers, provide a unique combination to help meet our customer’s functional, formulation and nutritional needs, and to accelerate the process of bringing new products to market.”

Source: Tate & Lyle

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