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GROWING PRESENCE
FlavorSum completes US expansion; grows innova-

tion centre network

FlavorSum, a North American fla- to facilitate collaborative sessions with
vour producer, has completed construc- a technical team that has expertise in
tion and opened a 35,000-square-foot food and beverage flavour solutions.
expansion at its Kalamazoo, Michigan The New Jersey Innovation Centre
(USA), facility. The increased footprint will also house the Beverage Centre of
enhances the site’s emulsion, extrac- Excellence that features pilot capabili-
tion, and warehousing capacity and and resources as the go-to flavour solu- ties for carbonation, canning, tunnel
includes investment in process auto- tions partner for small, mid-sized and pasteurisation, and hot filling.
mation to increase efficiency, quality, emerging food and beverage compa-
and safety, the company informed. nies,” said Mr. Brian Briggs, President “Our Innovation Centres offer
The on-site Innovation Centre’s pilot and CEO of FlavorSum, a portfolio customers the opportunity to partner on-
plant has also added new Ultra-High company of private equity firm, The site with our flavourists and applications
Temperature (UHT) and High-Tempera- Riverside Company. experts and speed the product develop-
ture, Short-Time (HTST) processing ment cycle. Our operational structure
capabilities that support the company’s In addition to Innovation Centres helps customers achieve their growth
Dairy Centre of Excellence. in Kalamazoo, and Mississauga goals with resources like market in-
(Ontario, Canada), FlavorSum is opening sights, regulatory experts, and stream-
“We remain focused on reducing a 10,000-square-foot Innovation Cen- lined commercialisation processes.
the headaches associated with flavour tre in Marlton, New Jersey (USA). The We prioritise continuous improvement
sourcing and new product development. centre has expanded flavour creation to keep pace with their needs,” said
We continue to build our capabilities lab, analytical and application spaces Mr. Dave Franz, FlavorSum’s CCO.
Dow and Air Liquide renew industrial gas supply

agreement in Germany

France’s Air Liquide and Dow have
renewed their industrial gas supply
agreement in Stade, one of the largest
chemical production sites in Lower
Saxony, Germany. “In view of the cli-
mate imperative, the necessary industrial
transformation will require not only
ground-breaking greenfield projects but
also step-by-step modifications and
modernisation of existing plants. This is
why, as part of our long-term renewal
of the supply agreement with Dow, we uide’s Executive Committee and Chief duced, leading to around 15% increase
have decided to invest close to €40-mn Executive Officer of the Europe Indus- in energy efficiency and reducing the
to modernise our assets in Stade. The tries Hub. As part of the agreement, emissions by around 15-ktpa, which
solution implemented will apply CO Air Liquide will modernise its existing represents 80% of direct CO emissions
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recycling to an existing production production assets – two Air Separation of the Air Liquide site. The modernisa-
facility, enabling us to improve energy Units (ASU) as well as one Partial Oxi- tion of these assets will be completed in
efficiency and reduce CO emissions dation plant (POX), to which it will add 2024. Air Liquide has been supplying
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at the same time,” said Ms. Emilie a new CO recycling solution. This will industrial gases to Dow in Stade,
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Mouren-Renouard, member of Air Liq- enable a circular use of the CO pro- Germany, for more than 20 years.
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