Alfa Laval’s Food Application & Innovation Center will open in Copenhagen in 2027. Here, new technologies for areas such as protein processing, resource-efficient production and next-generation foods will be developed and tested.
The Swedish process and technology company Alfa Laval has broken ground on a new global innovation centre in Søborg, near Copenhagen. The forthcoming Food Application & Innovation Center will serve as a development and testing environment for new solutions for the food industry.
The centre will bring together companies, researchers and entrepreneurs to develop new production methods and food solutions, with a focus on both conventional processing technologies and the next generation of food processing.
According to Alfa Laval, the centre is intended to strengthen collaboration between industry and research communities and accelerate the development of new solutions for the food sector.
– Innovation is what we do at Alfa Laval, and the Food Application & Innovation Center will be a world-leading facility in the heart of Copenhagen, says Johan Agrell, Strategic Business Development Manager in Alfa Laval’s Food & Pharma Division, in a press release.
He also emphasises that the centre will provide a space where both established food companies and start-ups can develop and test new solutions together with Alfa Laval.
Focus on protein processing
Initially, the new centre will place particular emphasis on protein processing, which is playing an increasingly important role in the development of future food products.
Technologies and processes will be developed and tested to increase raw-material yields while reducing the consumption of energy and water in production.
According to Alfa Laval, the ambition is also to develop solutions that improve the utilisation of side streams and strengthen the recovery of resources from production processes.
Collaboration between industry and research
The Food Application & Innovation Center will build on Alfa Laval’s existing Innovation House in Copenhagen, where the company already collaborates with start-ups and research environments on the development of new technologies and business concepts.
The new centre will also enable companies to test and optimise processes at pilot and demonstration scale before technologies are implemented in industrial production.
The facility will be built by the Danish construction company IBG and is expected to be completed in spring 2027.
According to Alfa Laval, the centre is intended to serve as an international hub for the development of new solutions for the food industry.
By Maja Løvstrup
Photo: Alfa Laval
