SAO
PAULO, July 28,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IFF (NYSE: IFF), an industry leader in
solutions for food, beverages, health, biosciences, and scent,
announced the company invested $15.8
million in three of its innovation centers in Latin America. The facilities are
strategically located in Sao Paulo,
Brazil, Bogota, Colombia
and Santiago, Chile to serve the
diverse local markets. The sites feature state-of-the-art research,
application, sensory labs and pilot plants, and offer customers
access to complete product-design capabilities.
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The innovation centers are designed to enhance customer
experience, allowing customers to have deeper involvement in the
development process, fostering collaboration across the company's
three business divisions ─ Nourish, Health & Biosciences and
Scent ─ to deliver the exact solutions they are pursuing in a much
shorter time. The new facilities will support product design and
development from conceptualization to commercialization, serving
the food and beverage, animal nutrition and health, home and
personal care, nutritional supplements and bioenergy
industries.
"This substantial investment is consistent with IFF's strategy
to support the growth potential of Latin
America," said Zacarias Karacristo, country leader of IFF
Brazil and regional president of Nourish division, IFF, Latin
America. "It is also a testament of our commitment to being a
key innovation partner to our regional customers."
"These regional innovation centers allow us to co-create so that
we can help them transform ideas into essential solutions that
address the latest consumer needs and market trends with agility
and purpose," added Karacristo.
- Brazil Innovation Center – Located in the Castelo Branco
Office Park, Barueri, Sao Paulo,
this approximately 2,000 square-meter ultra-modern facility
consolidates the R&D capabilities of IFF's Nourish and Health
& Biosciences divisions. The $6.3
million facility is LEED (Leadership in Energy &
Environmental Design) certified and one of only a few buildings in
the country with this certification. It houses laboratories and
pilot plants designed to replicate large-scale industrial
production processes, to serve the needs of all key categories,
including bakery, confectionary, beverages, culinary and snacks,
meat, fats and oils, dairy and ice-cream.
- Columbia Innovation Center – A $7.8 million facility that is conveniently
located in the Megaport Business Center in Bogotá. It spans almost
6,000 square meters and features research, application and sensory
labs, as well as a pilot plant to support product development
co-creation in food and beverage, home and personal care, and
health and wellness segments across the Nourish, Health &
Biosciences and Scent divisions. This innovation center will serve
customers in Colombia,
South Central America and the
greater Andean and Caribbean
regions.
- Chile Innovation Center – The $1.7 million facility is conveniently located in
Ciudad Empresarial, a financial and innovation hub in the city of
Santiago de Chile. In addition to consolidating overall
administrative and creative services in the region, four new
application laboratories will offer IFF's extensive portfolio of
functional ingredients, flavors, colors and aromas and support
product development in the bakery, bars, confectionary, beverages,
dairy, culinary and snacks categories.
In line with the company's dedication to sustainability, each
innovation center was constructed following strict sustainability
guidelines.
For more than 60 years, IFF has maintained a significant
presence and footprint in key Latin American markets. The three new
facilities bring the total number of IFF innovation centers in
Latin America to 12.
About IFF's Nourish division
At IFF, we're united by a common goal: to apply science and
creativity for a better world. Across our business divisions, we're
on a mission to Do More Good for our people, customers, and
communities.
To us, "nourish" means "to feed with purpose" — and we're here
to redefine the industry by nourishing people, products, and our
planet. Every day, our teams are boldly reimagining and pioneering
the next generation of food and beverage experiences. We're
leveraging our industry-leading product portfolio, unmatched
innovation capabilities, and customer-centric approach to become
the partner for essential solutions. Let's nourish the future,
together.
About IFF's Health & Biosciences division
Inspired by nature and distinguished by its world-class
bioscience and microbiome capabilities, IFF's Health &
Biosciences division is a leading innovation partner for customers
across a broad range of consumer product, industrial and
agricultural sectors. IFF's Health & Biosciences division works
closely with our customers to enhance products – and their
processes – to deliver safer, healthier and more sustainable
solutions.
About IFF's Scent division
IFF's Scent division creates and pioneers' unique fragrances,
scent solutions and cosmetic actives across key consumer goods
industries such as fine perfumery, personal, fabric and home care.
Key enablers to these pioneering scents are unique fragrance
ingredients and naturals which bring breakthrough olfactive
innovation and augmented perfumery benefits. Scent leads fragrance
artistry, scientific discovery and therapeutic breakthroughs that
change the word for better by awakening human nature.
Welcome to IFF
At IFF (NYSE: IFF), an industry leader in food, beverage,
health, biosciences and scent, science and creativity meet to
create essential solutions for a better world – from global icons
to unexpected innovations and experiences. With the beauty of art
and the precision of science, we are an international collective of
thinkers who partners with customers to bring scents, tastes,
experiences, ingredients, and solutions for products the world
craves. Together, we will do more good for people and planet. Learn
more at iff.com, Twitter , Facebook, Instagram,
and LinkedIn.
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