Firmenich, the largest privately owned company in the fragrance and taste industry, is unveiling its newly designed West Coast Innovation Center in Anaheim, Calif., the long standing home of its 7.5 acre Durarome® production site and West Coast commercial business.

Launch Pad is designed to inspire innovation and support the development and rapid commercialization of new functional powder food and dietary supplement products. Typically, increased throughput of a facility through automation comes at the detriment of flexibility in capabilities and order sizes. 

The facility, located in Salt Lake City, Utah is designed to inspire innovation and support the development and rapid commercialization of new functional powder products and nutrition systems. 

AAK USA Inc., one of the world's leading manufacturers of high value-adding specialty vegetable fats and oils, today opened a new Customer Innovation Center located in Louisville, Ky.

Flavors supplier David Michael & Company completed a multi-million dollar expansion at its Philadelphia headquarters.

When the new facility opens in early 2015, it will serve as home to the newly formed Diamond Foods’ Innovation Team.

The Rutgers Food Innovation Center has been recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration as a winner of its first Growth Accelerator Fund competition.

General Mills, Minneapolis, said it recently opened the company’s first innovation, technology and quality center in Shanghai, “signaling a commitment to drive greater innovation and investment in one of the company’s largest growth markets.”

Ah, what to get the company that has everything? How about a Culinary Innovation Center?

“Processor innovation.” Those words should be synonymous with food and beverage. They should roll off the tongue as naturally and easily as “cookies and crackers.”