Tereos, a global player in the sugar, alcohol and starch market, announce the opening of its new Customer Innovation Centre located in Aalst, Belgium.
This facility is designed to foster innovation and deepen collaboration with customers, by offering an extensive range of new services and solidifying its role as a central hub for customer support.
The facility is structured by specialised teams, each one focusing on different areas such as food, industry, paper & cardboard, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. It showcases newly established laboratories tailored to each industry, a demonstration kitchen and extensively upgraded analytical technologies.
Michel Flambeau, Tereos’ Innovation Centre Director, said: “We are committed to providing solutions to our customers to develop recipes that meet higher nutritional standards by leveraging our broad product portfolio combining fibres, cereal-based sweeteners and proteins. To make this easier, we have a team of technical experts close to our customers, who are regularly in contact with them to give advice, support and propose future project developments.”
Tereos’ Customer Innovation Centre delivers an average of 70 annual projects, serving nearly 150 customers and holding 300 active patents to date. Services offered at this site includes:
- Formulation
- Product development
- Consulting and technical support
- Training
- Analytical testing