The home of food innovation

Want to experiment with new flavours and textures, refresh your existing recipes, or develop brand new food products for Tetra Recart® packages? Then welcome to our Food Development Centre! Our fully equipped pilot-scale facility is staffed by highly experienced and passionate chefs and food developers who know and love food, and who are dedicated to helping you meet the needs of your consumers. And if you can’t make it to us in Sweden, we can come to you.

The home of food innovation

Want to experiment with new flavours and textures, refresh your existing recipes, or develop brand new food products for Tetra Recart® packages? Then welcome to our Food Development Centre! Our fully equipped pilot-scale facility is staffed by highly experienced and passionate chefs and food developers who know and love food, and who are dedicated to helping you meet the needs of your consumers. And if you can’t make it to us in Sweden, we can come to you.

Food Development Centre at a glance

Trials - at our place or yours

Visit our pilot facility in Lund, Sweden, which is equipped with pre-processing equipment, filling and sealing machines and retorts. Or let us send a mobile test unit so you can conduct trials at your own facilities

Tap into our expertise

Whether you're making ready meals, sauces, soups, pet food, baby food, tomato preparations, beans, fruits and vegetables, our experienced food expers and passionate chefs are on hand to support you.

Supporting you all the way

When you want to develop new products or revitalise existing ones, we support you all the way — providing inspiration, testing new recipes, creating samples and running tasting sessions to validate the results.

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FDC process infographic

At our Food Development Centre (FDC) in Lund, Sweden, food producers can come and develop new recipes and produce samples of new products alongside our own chefs and experts. But how exactly does the trial process work? Download our infographic to discover the six steps behind bringing your food ideas to life.

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Food categories

Tomato salsa with nachos

Tomato processing and production

Tomato processing and production

While tomato production and processing as a category is growing, so are the demands placed on producers. Our solutions help you standardise your products.
Beans in Tetra Recart cartons

Beans production and processing

Beans production and processing

Tetra Recart® is an innovative food packaging solution used, among other things, for bean production. It is 100 percent FSC™ certified.
Baby food in bowl

Baby food production and processing

Baby food production and processing

When it comes to baby food production, we have flexible, efficient, and cost-effective solutions to produce and pack purees, smooth or with particles.
Sweet corn in Tetra Recart carton package

Vegetable production and processing

Vegetable production and processing

Move over cans and jars – Tetra Recart is an innovative food packaging for vegetable production.
Labrador in park

Pet food manufacturing and processing

Pet food manufacturing and processing

Tetra Recart ® carton packages for the production of wet food for cats and dogs are 100 percent FSC™ certified.
Couple in kitchen preparing food

Manufacture of prepared meals and dishes

Manufacture of prepared meals and dishes

Tetra Recart ® is the ideal food packaging alternative for ready meals processing and sauces, with benefits for consumers and retailers.
Bowl of soup

Soup manufacturing and processing

Soup manufacturing and processing

Soup manufacturing is a rapidly developing and innovative category. Our optimal solutions enable you to produce a wide range of smooth to particulate soups.
Orange marmalade

Fruit preparations and packaging

Fruit preparations and packaging

Our solutions help unleash your product innovation and efficiently produce a wide range of fruit preparations, jam, marmalade, fruit purées, and more.

More about product innovation

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Product innovation

Whatever your current vision, we’re dedicated to innovating both with you and for you.
Food experts in pilot plant, product development

Product Development Centres

Looking to test new recipes for industrial-scale production? Or to evaluate different processing technologies? Our pilot plants have everything you need.
Woman in customer innovation centre

Co-creation journeys

We have some pieces of the puzzle; you have others. Let’s bring all our knowledge and insights together, to find new solutions and transform them into reality.