Campden BRI: Your Partner in Innovation and New Product Development
Developing new products or reformulating existing ones is a complex process – requiring knowledge of ingredients, processing techniques, packaging materials, regulatory affairs, and consumer demands and preferences. At Campden BRI, we have all of these and can bring them all together to help you make the right decisions. We also have a product development kitchen and extensive pilot plant facilities, so that ideas can be evaluated from the ideas stage onwards.
We help companies across the full range of food types – from bakery products, through fruit and vegetable products, soft and alcoholic drinks and meat and poultry products, to soups, sauces and ready meals. We were recently able to help a company maximise the natural truffle flavour of its vodka. Our contract services and expertise are underpinned by a programme of practically focused research projects. We have recently looked at salt reduction in a variety of products, and have had significant success with reducing fat, particularly saturated fat in cakes, biscuits and pastries, by using liquid oils. Reformulation to replace sugar is also underway.
Our pilot plant facilities are used to help develop new products, analyse existing processes, and evaluate ideas for the future. As well as ingredient preparation facilities, we have a wide range of thermal processing equipment, including retorts and pasteurisation tanks, hot air and freeze driers, air blast chillers and freezers, and specialist facilities for brewing and malting. We also have equipment to cover emerging technologies such as high–pressure processing, pulsed light, power ultrasound, and cold plasma. Our packing facilities can deal with cans, glass, pouches and trays, amongst others, as well as vacuum and modified atmosphere packing.
Once your products and processes are designed we can offer support with process validation – checking that everything works as expected – and provision of cooking instructions to enable the consumer to enjoy the new products to their full. For further information visit www.campdenbri.co.uk.
