About +2,000 strains of bacteria, yeasts and molds are directly managed by Lallemand Specialty Cultures to serve our partners with a full range of meat, dairy, and plant-based solutions for products surface, ripening, acidification and bioprotection."
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GOALS
⦿ Develop new products and applications: anticipate and respond to the marketplace’s needs by developing new products for markets we currently operate in, or developing new applications for products we already produce.
⦿ Improve product quality: continuously improve the quality of our products to better respond to our existing and potential clients’ requirements and improvement needs.
⦿ Develop competencies and networks: monitor new developments in biotechnology, microbiology, and engineering, and provide our staff with effective ongoing education, ultimately promoting successful successful adoption of new technologies.
R&D FACILITIES
Strain selection and product applications (La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, France)
At the dairy, meat & plant-based applications laboratory located at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, France, our goal is to adapt existing solutions or assess new ones to meet customers’ needs.
- Lallemand Specialty Cultures cell bank management
- Strain characterization according to selected targets
- Finished product models
- Application trials
- Client technical support
Process development and scale-up (Blagnac, France)
At the microbial research laboratory located at Blagnac, France (close to Toulouse), our goal is to achieve optimal fermentation and preservation conditions while ensuring the best technological performance of our strains
- Strain fermentation process
- Industrial transfer to production site
- Continuous improvement of strain fermentation process
- Technical watch on production processes
A RESEARCH-FOCUSED PARTNER
The R&D at Lallemand Specialty Cultures is based on two key elements:
- Superior in-house expertise and resources in microbiology, genomics, and process development
- External collaborations with partners and renowned research organizations for validation studies in multiple applications
ADDITIONAL MAJOR R&D RESOURCES FROM THE LALLEMAND COMPANY:
National Research Council (Montréal, QC, Canada)
- Yeast production process optimization
- Molecular biology
Mascoma (Lebanon, NH, USA)
- Molecular biology
- Analytical service centre
Aquapharm Marine Strain collection of yeasts, bacteria and fungi (Oban, Scotland, UK)
- Strain maintenance and screening
Competence Centre for Food and Fermentation Technologies (Tallinn, Estonia)
- Yeast derivative production processes optimization
- Yeast-derived bioactive compounds research
