BENEO to Launch New Technology Center

The foundations for this were laid in 2009 when BENEO founded the BENEO-Institute, which offers guidance and thought leadership in nutrition, health and regulatory affairs.

Aug 25 2011 --- At this year’s Fi Europe (FiE) in Paris, BENEO – one of the leading manufacturers of functional ingredients – will demonstrate its continual commitment to support customers in all phases of product development by announcing the creation of its BENEO-Technology Center.

The BENEO-Technology Center brings together BENEO’s long-standing food application and technical expertise to enhance and encourage product innovation. As such it will complement BENEO’s chain of expertise providing customers with specialist advice to tackle technical questions in product development and formulation. The foundations for this were laid in 2009 when BENEO founded the BENEO-Institute, which offers guidance and thought leadership in nutrition, health and regulatory affairs. Additionally, BENEO developed its expertise to provide customers with dedicated consumer and market insights, going so far as developing product and marketing concepts to demonstrate the benefits of BENEO’s functional ingredients.

Highlighting one of the areas of expertise covered by the BENEO-Technology Center, Rudy Wouters, Vice President Food Application Technology and Head of the BENEO-Technology Center, will be speaking at FiE on the topic of creating texture and creaminess in reduced-fat food products.

BENEO is a division of the Südzucker Group, employs almost 900 people and has production units in Belgium, Chile, Germany and Italy.

The BENEO product portfolio consists of functional ingredients with nutritional and technical advantages, derived from chicory roots, beet sugar, rice and wheat. BENEO is the ideal partner to help improve the health (weight management, energy for mental & physical performance, digestive, bone and dental health), taste, texture and nutritional value (fat and sugar replacement/fibre enrichment) of a product. Through a unique chain of expertise, including the BENEO-Institute, BENEO actively supports (industry partners in) the development of more balanced and healthy food products.