Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOGB20241213011
- Term of Validity
- 14 April 2025 - 14 April 2026
- Company's Country
- United Kingdom
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- The UK SME specialising in food manufacturing is offering pilot scale extruder & compression popper equipment and expertise to support food companies/brands from product idea to launch. Areas: plant-based food, proteins, fibers, starches, sustainable ingredients, expanded products. The SME is seeking supply chain partners (ingredient suppliers, large-scale manufacturing partners) and customers under commercial agreement with technical assistance.
- Full Description
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Founded in 2015, the company sits at the intersection of academia, innovators and industry, specialising in sustainable nutrition, accelerating ideas and concepts into revenue-generating businesses, supporting the entire commercial journey of a product from R&D through to market launch.
A vastly experienced team, that combines expert services with exceptional knowledge of every stage of product development across the food sectors, enabling customers to grow current and future revenue streams.
At their food grade facility, work focuses on plant-based foods, with particular strengths in texturisation of ingredients using their pilot scale extruder and understanding the techno-functional properties of ingredients to optimise use in foods. They use a range of sustainable ingredients which include whole foods, less process ingredients and industry by-products. Their facility also houses a compression popper and a range of formulation equipment to enable product development for multiple categories e.g., snacks, cereals, rice cakes, textured meat alternatives. Their mission is to deliver sustainable products to the food industry without compromising on health and taste.
The SME seeks to support:
• companies in the Agri-Food sector who are innovating but struggling to reach the market due to lack of knowledge/capability in extrusion/expansion.
• large toll manufacturers with extruder and popping equipment that have limited R&D capability/capacity.
• ingredient suppliers seeking new applications and product knowledge. - Advantages and Innovations
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For Food companies/brands:
• access to standard and sustainable ingredients
• access to food expansion expertise and technology at pilot scale
• have more control of recipe development
• retain IP
• accredited manufacturing in the UK
• can test the market with lower volumes for customer trials and initial sales into retail.
For Manufacturers:
• trusted R&D partner
• product hand over with technology transfer pack
• product tested in the market
For Ingredient suppliers:
• access to new food companies with clear route to market - Technical Specification or Expertise Sought
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Manufacturer:
• large scale extruder
• large scale rice cake / expansion equipment
Ingredient suppliers:
• sustainable credentials
• by-products
• proteins
• starches
• fibers - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being
- IPR status
- No IPR applied
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The SME is seeking companies in the Agri-Food sector who are innovating but struggling to reach the market due to lack of knowledge in extrusion/expansion, high MOQ on orders with manufacturing partners and lack of ownership of recipes developed. Through making their facility and knowledge accessible, they help companies to retain IP and use accredited manufacturing in the UK. It allows customers to test the market with lower volumes for customer trials and initial sales into retail.
The SME would also like to meet large toll manufacturers with extruder and popping equipment that have limited R&D capability/capacity – to support the customers on their scale up journey, the SME will need a range of trusted partners to pass the customers onto when their volumes exceed their facility. - Type and Size of Partner
- SME <=10
- SME 11-49
- Big company
- SME 50 - 249
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 08001005 - Food Technology
- 08001002 - Food Additives/Ingredients/Functional Food
- 08001004 - Food Processing
- 08002003 - Safe production methods
- Market keywords
- 09004008 - Other manufacturing (not elsewhere classified)
- 07003002 - Health food
- 05008002 - Food and feed ingredients
- Targeted countries
- All countries