Research and Development Services
Our Research and Development team works with you to develop superior products and ingredients that fit your requirements. Where a standard specification is close but not close enough, we customise it.
Who you work with
The R&D team provides extensive knowledge and expertise and is comprised of agronomists, food scientists, flavour chemists, dieticians, process engineers, and quality control specialists. Our professionals work with you to select the best ingredients for your application, customise an ingredient for your specific needs, and develop products to your exact specifications.
You work with the same people from first brief to production trial. That continuity matters more than it sounds: the formulation knowledge built during development is what makes scale-up predictable, and it does not transfer cleanly through a handover document.
We help you select the best ingredient
Different products require different ingredients based on several factors, including flavour, mouthfeel, processing conditions, and desired shelf-life. Our team evaluates those constraints together rather than optimising one at the expense of the others — a protein that performs in a dry blend may behave very differently in a high-moisture system, and a starch chosen for viscosity may fail on freeze-thaw stability.
The constraint that gets missed most often is the process, not the product. Heat exposure, shear, pH, and water activity will change how an ingredient behaves, and an ingredient selected on taste-panel results alone frequently behaves differently once it has been through your line. We ask about the line before we recommend the material.
The Innovation Center network
Imagine solving key product challenges with a team of experts who bring you the latest science and original thinking from our global Innovation Center network.
Picture lively collaboration on the fundamental benefits you and your consumers want most: quality, affordability, sensory experience, health and nutrition, and clean and simple products. That is the experience of working with the experts of the ORGANICWAY innovation centres.
What we can work on together
- Reformulation for cost, label, or supply resilience
- Custom specification development against a target application
- Shelf-life and stability troubleshooting
- Scale-up from bench to production batch
How a project runs
A development project typically moves through four stages. We start with the brief: the target product, the process it will run on, the label constraints, and the cost envelope. We then screen candidate materials against that brief and put the shortlist through bench trials. The surviving candidate goes to a pilot or production trial on your line, or on comparable equipment if that is more practical. Finally, the specification is fixed and handed to quality so that what you approved is what you receive on every subsequent lot.
Most projects fail at the second stage rather than the fourth, and usually because a constraint was never written down at the start. We spend the time up front.
Need to get a new product to market faster, improve sustainability across your operation, or elevate the sensory profile of an existing line? That is the work this team does.