Research and develop your fermentation-based food products

Whether you’re working with precision or biomass fermentation, you can rely on our leading-edge facilities and knowledgeable experts to find the most efficient and effective ways to bring your biotech-based product to market. At our Tetra Pak® New Food Technology Development Centre (TDC) in Karlshamn, Sweden, experiment with up-scaling methods and validate production processes. We’ll support you to consistently achieve the food behaviours and characteristics you want, so you can create a top-quality, competitive food product.

Research and develop your fermentation-based food products

Whether you’re working with precision or biomass fermentation, you can rely on our leading-edge facilities and knowledgeable experts to find the most efficient and effective ways to bring your biotech-based product to market. At our Tetra Pak® New Food Technology Development Centre (TDC) in Karlshamn, Sweden, experiment with up-scaling methods and validate production processes. We’ll support you to consistently achieve the food behaviours and characteristics you want, so you can create a top-quality, competitive food product.

How can our technology development centre (TDC) support you?

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Optimise for large-scale production

Our process evaluation programme supports you to discover the most efficient methods for reaching your production goals. Generate samples, validate processes and receive detailed reports complete with post-trial analysis and recommendations for how to best achieve your desired product characteristics, volumes and costs. Access our facilities in-person, virtually, or a combination of the two.

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Secure product performance

Achieve your desired product characteristics with our New Food productivity validation programme. We run various tests, analysis results and provide recommendations for next steps to ensure your product meets food safety requirements, performance guarantee preconditions, and other identified benchmarks.

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Select tests (customised)

Choose from the wide variety of production and lab tests in our offer. You can focus on one feature of your product, gathering data and identifying next steps. Our lab can provide analytics on raw material, microbial load, and the fermentation process. We can also monitor every step of the downstream process to ensure food safety and product quality.

Get all the facts about our TDC

Our New Food TDC brochure outlines all the capabilities of the facility, including on-site equipment and lab services. It’s an easy-to-share document about the benefits and advantages you get when working with our experienced staff at this leading-edge centre.

Select from a variety of testing capabilities

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Media handling and seed preparation

  • Analyse microbial load and heat sterilisation profiles.
  • Test impact on various media concentrations of carbon source.
  • Conduct trials to compare sterile filtration and heat sterilisation.

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Fermentation

  • Work with volumes of 20L, 200L and 1000L.
  • Test mechanical foam removal vs. an anti-foam agent in bioreactors.
  • You have full control over parameters: temperature, pH, optical density, dissolved oxygen, off-gas analysis, and mixing speed, level and hydrostatic pressure.

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Harvest

  • Evaluate various harvest methods, such as filtration and centrifugation.
  • Conduct washing step in connection with the harvest.
  • Optimise biomass concentration in supernatant.

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Intermediate storage and heat treatment

  • Conduct heat treatment and inactivation steps with verification of heat profile.
  • Verify GMO kill methods with chemicals or heat.
  • Multiple aseptic tanks for flexibility between processes.
  • All tanks are equipped with sample valves.

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Purification

  • Test and optimise downstream processes against your purification needs, together with our downstream processing experts.
  • Combine different downstream equipment to meet your needs.
  • Analyse product concentration, toxins, allergens and microbial load throughout all steps in the end-product specification process.

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Post processing

  • Dry the product in our spray dryer and test agglomeration characteristics.
  • Pack your final product for further testing and evaluation.

Your microorganisms are in safe hands

We’re engineers and innovators, too. So, we understand your intellectual property is valuable and important to protect. That’s why we ensure privacy and security when you use our TDC.

Safety and security features include:

  • NDAs
  • Technology Development Centre agreement
  • Staff trained in handling IP-sensitive microorganisms
  • Stringent protocols which include destroying samples after tests and analysis
  • Restricted facility access
  • Lock and key containers
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Use our facilities at your convenience

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Travel-free trials

Conduct product trials with our travel-free trial option that not only helps reduce transport emissions but also saves you time and money on travel. With trial data visualised in real-time, you get a clear understanding of the results as the trial progresses. Plus, you can select who attends which parts of the trial, further streamlining the process.

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Attend trials in person

Attend product trials in person and experience the thrill of witnessing new product innovations come to life before your very eyes! Our experienced trial leaders are dedicated to making the process as smooth and informative as possible, providing you with detailed information during your visit and a full report after the trial is complete. We look forward to providing you with an unforgettable experience.

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Hybrid trials

For the best of both worlds, choose our hybrid trial option. Food technologists and others who are experienced in testing samples direct from the machine can attend on-site while decision-makers join online, to watch or listen to key sections. With easy participation, hybrid trials let you bring the right people together, no matter where they are.

Explore more of our development centres

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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.

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Powder solutions

Our Product Development Centres for powder production can help you with the right solutions, so you’ll always get high-quality results.

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Food Development Centre

Experiment with flavours, textures and other food characteristics at our fully equipped pilot-scale facility. Our passionate food experts can also support you in exploring packaging options with Tetra Recart®.

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