Kuala Lumpur, 8 August 2008 - Cargill opened its new South East Asia Food Application Centre today in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The new facility expands Cargill's capabilities to partner with food and beverage manufacturers in South East Asia to create innovative new products.
“Our new facility unites Cargill’s product formulation expertise for its palm oil refining, texturizing and flavoring businesses under one roof to better serve our customers in this region,” said Paul Conway, Cargill president for Asia Pacific, who officiated the opening of the Application Centre.
Cargill will have the following capabilities at its new application centre:
- Development of flavors for beverage, dairy, sugar and chocolate confectionery
- Formulation testing of fats for baking and chocolate making;
- Fats formulation test frying for chicken and french fries;
- Texturizing test activities related to dairy & non-dairy products, juice beverages, confectionery (gummies, pectin fellies) and processed fruits (jams, baking jams and decorative jams).
“It is not just an Application Centre, but also a development tool for our customers to choose from the nearly 800 flavors that will be housed in our Flavor Library,“ said Kimberly Tan, general manager of Cargill Flavor Systems South East Asia. Robert Basker, the product application manager of Cargill Palm Products, said, “by using the facilities of our Application Centre, we can partner with our customers to enhance their product performance and create a finished product line for our key customers.”
Lawrence Low, general manager of Cargill Texturizing Solutions, said, “we have brought together our global expertise in many fields, including texturizers, sweeteners, flavors and fats, to be housed in the same facility so that we can build synergies for our customers in the region.”