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The home of food innovation

Want to experiment with new flavours and textures, refresh your existing recipes, or develop brand new food products for Tetra Recart® packages? Then welcome to our Food Development Centre! Our fully equipped pilot-scale facility is staffed by highly experienced and passionate chefs and food developers who know and love food, and who are dedicated to helping you meet the needs of your consumers. And if you can’t make it to us in Sweden, we can come to you.

The home of food innovation

Want to experiment with new flavours and textures, refresh your existing recipes, or develop brand new food products for Tetra Recart® packages? Then welcome to our Food Development Centre! Our fully equipped pilot-scale facility is staffed by highly experienced and passionate chefs and food developers who know and love food, and who are dedicated to helping you meet the needs of your consumers. And if you can’t make it to us in Sweden, we can come to you.

Food Development Centre at a glance

Trials - at our place or yours

Visit our pilot facility in Lund, Sweden, which is equipped with pre-processing equipment, filling and sealing machines and retorts. Or let us send a mobile test unit so you can conduct trials at your own facilities

Tap into our expertise

Whether you're making ready meals, sauces, soups, pet food, baby food, tomato preparations, beans, fruits and vegetables, our experienced food expers and passionate chefs are on hand to support you.

Supporting you all the way

When you want to develop new products or revitalise existing ones, we support you all the way — providing inspiration, testing new recipes, creating samples and running tasting sessions to validate the results.

FDC process infographic

At our Food Development Centre (FDC) in Lund, Sweden, food producers can come and develop new recipes and produce samples of new products alongside our own chefs and experts. But how exactly does the trial process work? Download our infographic to discover the six steps behind bringing your food ideas to life.

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Food categories

Tomato salsa with nachos

Tomato preparations

Consumer demand for tomato preparations, and a wider range of innovative, value-added products, is growing. Our flexible, efficient solutions help you meet it.

Learn more about our solutions for tomato preparations⁠
Beans in Tetra Recart cartons

Beans

Tetra Recart is an innovative and sustainable food packaging alternative for beans, made mostly of renewable materials and optimised for e-commerce.

Learn more about our solutions for beans⁠
Baby food in bowl

Baby food

When it comes to baby food, we have flexible, efficient, and cost-effective solutions to produce and pack a range of purees, both smooth and with particles.

Learn more about our solutions for baby food⁠
Sweet corn in Tetra Recart carton package

Vegetables

Move over cans and jars – Tetra Recart is an innovative food packaging for packed vegetables with a lower climate impact that’s popular with consumers.

Learn more about our solutions for vegetables⁠
Cat and pet food in Tetra Recart carton package

Pet food

Made mostly from renewable materials, Tetra Recart cartons for wet pet food for cats and dogs meet consumer demand for more sustainable packaging.

Learn more about our solutions for pet food⁠
Lasagna on plate with salad

Ready meals and ready sauces

Tetra Recart is the ideal food packaging alternative for ready meals and ready sauces, with benefits for consumers, retailers and the planet.

Learn more about our solutions for ready meals and ready sauces⁠
Bowl of soup

Soups

Our optimal solutions enable you to produce and pack a wide range of smooth to particulate soups, both clear and thick.

Learn more about our solutions for soups⁠
Orange marmalade

Fruit preparations

Our solutions help unleash your product innovation and efficiently produce a wide range of fruit preparations, jam, marmalade, fruit purées, and more.

Learn more about our solutions for fruit preparations⁠

More about product innovation

Fantasy carton package design

Product innovation

Whatever your current vision, we’re dedicated to innovating both with you and for you to build a more resilient and profitable future.

Learn more about innovation solutions⁠
People in pilot plant, product development

Product Development Centres

Looking to test new recipes for industrial scale production? Or to evaluate different processing technologies? Our pilot plants have everything you need.

Learn more about our Product Development Centres⁠
Woman in customer innovation centre

Co-creation journeys

We have some pieces of the puzzle; you have others. Let’s bring all our knowledge and insights together, to find new solutions and transform them into reality.

Learn more about co-creation journeys⁠

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