The modern landscape manufacturers are operating is changing rapidly. This can lead to competing demands caused by market volatility, costs, operational realities and consumer preferences.
Manufacturers face unprecedented pressure for:
Reduced raw‑material volatility (e.g., eggs, cocoa, sugar, fats)
Faster innovation and reformulation cycles
Improved supply chain resilience and cost control
Distinctive sensory experiences
Consistent performance across processing and storage
Efficiencies and nutrition upgrades
This is where we can help. Our functional blend systems answer these pressures holistically, supporting you at every step and elevating value from R&D to application, scaling‑up to market performance and beyond.
Delivering Complete Solutions
Supported by a global toolbox of 1,600+ distinct raw materials and 10,000+ developed solutions, we can tailor systems to match your challenge at both speed and scale.
We deliver:
Predictable Performance.
Faster Innovation.
Sensory Excellence.
Global Support.
Added Value.
Reliable supply.
Functional blend systems combine advanced ingredient science with deep sensory, application, transforming formulation complexity into predictable, powerful performance, while also reducing the risk of supply chain, regulatory and labelling challenges.
Whatever your goal – mouthfeel, texture, stability, nutrition, processing, or consumer appeal – our functional blend systems are engineered to achieve it.
More importantly, their many benefits go beyond the final product, enhancing and optimising your process as a whole. Supported by our technical, application, and regulatory expertise, our systems help you innovate faster and more confidently.
Our functional blend systems accelerate speed to market, enhance agility, and streamline operations - while reducing reformulation risk, improving consistency, and protecting against supply and cost volatility to build confidence.
The result is improvement across your entire procurement, development and commercialisation journey.
Solution Spotlight
With expert support and an extensive ingredient portfolio spanning fibres, sweeteners, starches, hydrocolloids and more, we can find the right solution for any goal.
Delivers reliable texture, stability, and mouthfeel across a wide range of fat levels. Improves processing, product quality and shelf life across dairy, bakery, fillings, desserts, ice cream, soups, sauces, and reduced calorie or high protein formats.
Enhances mouthfeel, optimises emulsification and water binding, and supports cleaner label formulations in vegetable fat creams, yogurts, cream cheese, desserts, dips and sauces, and non-dairy applications. Systems are made exclusively from proteins.
Delivers acid regulation, pH management, color stability and protein protection. Ideal for acidified dairy, fruit and vegetable systems, neutral desserts, and cheese applications. Also supports preservation, taste optimisation, protein stability, and leavening functionality.
Processing optimised systems that elevate resilience, texture, and stability in ice cream, vegetable fat cream, sauces, ready to serve meals and meat products.
Performance driven systems for sugar and calorie reduced applications, restoring texture, taste and mouthfeel while enhancing flavour of food and beverage systems.
Tailored thickening, gelling, emulsification and protein protection systems that support ice cream, fruit preparations, meat and fish products.
Multifunctional systems delivering process control, stabilisation, suspension, syneresis control for jams, beverages, bakery, dairy, fruit toppings, yogurts, processed meat and cheeses.
Our functional blend systems power performance across the world’s most dynamic food and beverage categories - from Global Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) leaders and private label innovators to regional manufacturers and foodservice companies. Wherever food and beverage reformulation and innovation happens, our technology unlocks performance, efficiency, and differentiation.
Within the bakery category, our systems aid heat stability, enable egg-reduced formulations, enhance moistness, extended shelf life, and are key components for creating convenient formats that are both healthier and tastier.
Our systems provide multiple benefits to beverages, such as better stability, particle suspension, mouthfeel recovery, and masking in low- or no-sugar formulations.
In the confectionery space our functional blend systems support formulations that are vegan, sugar free, layered, multi-textured, heat-resistant, or enable recognisable and upcycled labels.
Functional blend systems help deliver mouthfeel and stability. They are also critical in enabling high protein management, cocoa replacement, melting control, and fat reduction.
Our functional blend systems provide emulsification functionality, enhanced mouthfeel, improved fat reduction and egg free formulations.
We are the partner of choice for solution-driven reformulation and innovation. Whatever your challenge, our expertise, capabilities, and portfolio help you navigate complexity with confidence.
Solutions Integrated for Impact: Our solutions are designed to deliver value beyond the production line. By integrating capabilities across sourcing, formulation, and application, we support your business with de-risked procurement, operational efficiency, and high-performing end products.
Expert capabilities: We have proprietary insights and specialist expertise across Mouthfeel, Sweetening and Fortification.
Predictive system design: We empower partners to move quickly, act with confidence and reduce their risk.
Global reach, local excellence: Our worldwide network of manufacturing sites and application centers provides consistency and security.
Real value creation: At both commercial and operational levels we create value, by de-risking, simplifying and scaling.
We combine sourcing, regulatory, technical and sensory expertise, predictive design, and global services to move from challenge to commercial launch with speed, clarity and confidence.
Discover: Define goals, constraints, nutrition and sensory targets
Model: Predictive tools simulate outcomes
Design: System architecture tailored to your product, process, label and consumer needs
Validate: Trials in our global and regional application Customer Innovation and Collaboration Centres
Scale: Seamless supply, global presence, regional touch and consistent performance?
Our global team partners with you at every stage, ensuring each system performs reliably with your process, in your plant, and for your market. Simplified complexity for accelerated results; smart, scalable success.
Are you ready to co-create the future with our functional blend systems? Our expert team is ready to help accelerate innovation, elevate sensory performance, and bring your next winning product to market.
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