Tate & Lyle has a long history of open innovation with some of our most successful products coming from partnerships within our global network of universities, start-ups, corporates and customers. Our dedicated Open Innovation team looks externally for ideas for our three speciality food ingredient platforms – sweeteners, texturants and health & wellness.
Our speciality food ingredient platforms
We focus on new products and technologies we can commercialise rapidly for our three platforms:
Innovations in sweetener technology, particularly natural sweeteners, flavours and flavour enhancers
Innovations in texturant, emulsifier and speciality starch technologies
Innovations in ingredients across the health and wellness spectrum.
What we look for
We are interested in great tasting ingredient innovations that have a clear route to market. We are particularly interested in ideas that match the following criteria:
’Clean label’ ingredients
Innovations in ingredients that enable manufacturers to reduce costs
Ingredients that offer new functionality
Ingredients that can be used across a wide range of food categories.
Proven technologies that can demonstrate a sustainable competitive advantage.
What we offer
We offer our partners the strengths of a global food ingredient business, along with the reassurance that they are doing business with a company that lives and works by its values
We serve the majority of the top 100 food and beverage companies worldwide
Sales and marketing teams in all regions
Strong customer applications support functions based in all regions
Manufacturing footprint in the Americas, EU and Asia (including pilot-scale and pre-commercial production)
Capabilities to move products quickly from prototype to launch ready
Regulatory expertise in all key markets
Expertise in market analysis, brand development and consumer insights
An ethical approach based on our Code of Business Ethics which guides us in everything we do
The kinds of partnerships we enter into
We work in many ways with external partners, depending on what works best for the project and partner concerned. These include:
Technology licensing
Joint development projects
Research collaborations
Equity investments
Acquisitions
If you would like to partner with a global leader to commercialize your technology, please contact us with details of your project for an initial opinion. We stress that you should not send any confidential information at this stage.