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Product innovation and improvement
Solutions to revitalise sales
The increasingly diversified nature of the food industry gives rise to specific production needs for each sector and product. In fact, in a market with clear variations in consumer trends, products must be open to improvement on the basis of their weaknesses in terms of preservation, cost of production or level of consumer acceptance.
At AZTI-Tecnalia, we offer high value-added technological services, providing companies with a wide range of solutions for the development and improvement of products in order to sustain and revitalise their sales.
Innovation and technological development studies include the performance of studies and activities related with multiple developments and implementations, a product of the knowledge generated in our research.
- Innovation plans: including technological and market monitoring studies, legislation and patentability.
- Development of new product concepts
- Technical/economic/commercial viability analysis of new products
- Formulation and/or substitution of ingredients
- Development of prototypes (experimental cuisine) on a laboratory and pilot scale
- Shelf-life studies
- Validation through sensorial studies and market testing
- Nutritional characterisation
- Re-use of by-products and development of eco-products

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