Givaudan, Bühler, Cargill, ITAL and the FoodTech Hub Latam To Open New Tropical Food Innovation Lab

Three leading global companies, Givaudan, Bühler, and Cargill, have formed a consortium in collaboration with the Food Tech Hub LATAM and Ital, Food Technology Institute, to build a food innovation center in the city of Campinas, Brazil. 

The “Tropical Food Innovation Lab” will be the go-to place in Latin America to connect and develop sustainable, future food and beverage products. Startups, companies, investors, universities and research institutions will have direct access to high-end technologies for rapid prototyping and plugging into the global food tech ecosystem that will foster fast paced innovation in the food and beverage sector.

“The Tropical Food Innovation Lab brings a diverse and complementary group of strategic partners working together investigating market shifts, cross-fertilizing ideas and nourishing concepts to deliver superior sustainable solutions to Food & Beverage customers,” said Eduard Fontcuberta, Regional Innovation Head at Givaudan.

“The Tropical Food Innovation Lab represents a great example of this commitment in Latam, where we will join our forces with distinguished partners in a very unique environment for co-creation and collaboration to accelerate sustainable innovations what matters to the regional agri-food value chain and beyond that, to support our customer strategy and demands”, said Carlos Prax, Regional R&D Leader at Cargill.

The Tropical Food Innovation Lab is planned to open in Q1 2023.

Read here an exclusive interview with the Regional Innovation Head!