Advanced Biofermentation & Industrial Scale-Up for Next-Generation Food Ingredients

At Grupo Carinsa, we continue to strengthen our open innovation strategy to transform the way we conceive and manufacture ingredients for the food industry. Our main challenge focuses on biofermentation and industrial scale-up, with the objective of developing new proprietary raw materials that enhance efficiency, sustainability and technological competitiveness.

We are looking for technologies, platforms or methodologies that can support us in the following areas:

1. Development of novel raw materials through biofermentation

• Production of functional, aromatic or nutritional compounds using traditional fermentation or precision fermentation.

• GRAS microorganisms or optimized strains capable of generating metabolites of interest (natural flavors, flavor enhancers, bioactive compounds, functional ingredients…).

• Approaches based on metabolic engineering, synthetic biology or advanced microbiology to boost productivity and yields.

2. Robust and efficient industrial scale-up

• Solutions that ensure stable and cost-effective transition from lab-scale to pilot and industrial-scale production.

• Bioreactors, control systems, improved cultivation strategies, media optimization, downstream processing, separation and purification technologies.

• Scalable models that minimize energy consumption while maximizing industrial viability.

3. Sustainability & circularity

• Use of by-products, alternative feedstocks or circular processes to reduce environmental impact.

• Technologies that reduce waste, emissions and carbon footprint throughout the process.

4. Primary application in food

Although the challenge is cross-disciplinary, our main focus is the development of ingredients for:

• Snacks, confectionery, beverages, meat products and plant-based alternatives.

• Reduced-salt, reduced-sugar or reduced-fat matrices.

• More natural, sustainable and sensorially enhanced solutions.

Secondarily, we will also consider proposals with potential application to our aroma & fragrance portfolio.