Innovation centre

Applications support from concept to first production run

Our technical team works alongside your formulators on substitutions, cost engineering, stability and scale-up.

Programmes

Where our technical team adds value

01

Ingredient substitution

Like-for-like alternatives when a material is constrained, delisted or repriced.

02

Cost engineering

Reformulation options that hold the label claim while reducing landed cost.

03

Stability & shelf life

Accelerated and real-time studies through accredited partner laboratories.

04

Clean-label conversion

Replacing synthetic inputs with traceable botanical equivalents.

05

Pilot batches

Small-scale trial quantities with full documentation before commercial commitment.

06

Scale-up support

Process guidance, dosing tolerances and supplier alignment for first production.

Emerging

Ingredients we are tracking this year

01

Functional mushrooms

Lion's mane and reishi extracts standardised on beta-glucans.

02

Precision minerals

Chelated and gluconate forms with improved bioavailability data.

03

Upcycled fibres

Fruit and vegetable side-streams converted into functional powders.

04

Marine omegas

Microencapsulated fish and algal oils for dry-blend applications.