Aurora Ceres Partnership and Knechtel in strategic alliance

The Aurora Ceres Partnership and Knechtel have announced a collaboration to bring together a range of services and capabilities to drive innovation in the food, confectionery, pharma, and beverage industries.

The Aurora Ceres Partnership (ACP), established in 2015, uses its associate network to fast-track innovation in the food, beverage and associated industries.

ACP employs its bespoke ACTION Technology Scouting process and trendACTION insights to help product developers and food and drink manufacturers enable the trends and solve challenges.

ACP also uses five decades of business process, NPD, project management and innovation management expertise.

“This, combined with front-line consultancy experience across major industry sectors, and significantly food and drink manufacture, means that ACP is uniquely placed to enable incremental through to step-change innovation,” the company said.

Knechtel is one of the largest full-service international consulting firms supporting innovation and product development from ideation through commercialisation since 1957.

Its 27,000 sq² pilot facility and in-house equipment enables Knechtel to support product development initiatives from preliminary bench-top, to scale-up, and full commercial production runs.

Knechtel approaches and reviews each project individually to co-develop a custom approach.

The companies said the partnership aims to bring an “enhanced range of knowledge, experience, capabilities and services” to both the Aurora Ceres Partnership and Knechtel clients’, and strengthen the trans-Atlantic footprints of each organisation.

“Together, the innovation, product development and commercialisation needs of a new product can efficiently and cost effectively be met,” they said.

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