For Bakery Ingredients, CSM has innovation centers in Bingen and Lenexa.
The Innovation Center Bakery Ingredients, based in Bingen (near Frankfurt, Germany) is a center of expertise for bread and fine pastry ingredients. Our multinational team here handles European and global innovation projects. The experts at Bingen strive for raw materials leadership; a detailed understanding of how the different ingredients interact throughout the process. They gain this understanding by combining results from chemical and physical analyses of raw materials, intermediates and final products, with observations from controlled baking tests. They are always on the lookout for new natural ingredient sources, the latest processing technology and state-of-the art analyses to innovate for tomorrow. Research results and knowledge from this innovation center are used for product development worldwide.
The headquarters of Caravan Ingredients in Lenexa (Kansas, USA), houses a state of the art research facility that includes a CSM Innovation Center Bakery Ingredients. The facility is staffed with scientists and developers including bakers, food scientists, and chemists. In addition to these capabilities, the facility has on-going relationships with academic and research organizations and regularly carries out joint projects with customers. This innovation center develops new technologies in the strategic areas of health and wellness, indulgence, and convenience. Current bakery ingredients research conducted here focuses on utilizing enzyme technology to extend the freshness and shelf life of baked goods, developing more healthy products and more efficient ways to manufacture traditional products.