Tate & Lyle opens commercial and food innovation center
Tate & Lyle, a global provider of ingredients and solutions to the food, beverage and other industries, opens a commercial and food innovation center in Hoffman Estates, Ill. The 110,000-sq.-ft., state-of-the-art facility will facilitate customer collaboration from “idea-to-plate” through the development of new food and beverage products that satisfy consumers’ increasing demand for health, convenience, value and taste. It also will significantly accelerate their delivery to market.
The company says the facility will act as the cornerstone for its increasing global network of research, food application and technical support laboratories and serve as the global headquarters of its Innovation and Commercial Development unit. It’s also the North American headquarters of Tate & Lyle’s Specialty Food Ingredients Division.