Services
The vocation of ACTALIA Innovation is to revitalize and increase reliability of innovation in the food sector. ACTALIA Innovation, committed to an open innovation approach, implements a triple expertise: Research and Development, Marketing, and Design, associating product and process technical expertise, consumer vision and value-in-use.
Through INNOpass, we propose customized tools and services, adapted to your economic and industrial situation, to assist you in designing and developing your innovative products.
- Competition monitoring
- Benchmarking
- Market research
- Technical and regulatory monitoring
- Bibliographic reviews
- Coordination of creative workshops: creation of new concepts, name searches
- 2D and 3D illustrations
- Projective groups: Decoding expectations
- Focus groups: Representations – Motivations and hurdles – Use and attitudes
- Concept testing: Evaluation of the product mix
- Identity testing
- Market performance tests
- Observation workshops
- Creation of new applications and value-in-use
- Illustration of use scenarios
- Eco-design
- Concept modelling
- Sourcing
- Formulation
- Product and process development in a pilot plant
- Validation of shelf life and cost price
- Investment recommendations
- Industrial transfer
- Adaptation of recipes for export
- Reduction of cost price and material losses
- Quality control
- Clean label reformulation
- Extension of shelf life
- Product-packaging optimisation
- Improvement of nutritional profile
- Identification of your products’ nutritional qualities
- Optimisation of the manufacturing process
- Claims and communication
- Evaluation of your labels
- Nutrition labelling
- INCO compliance
- Creation of graphic standards
- Packaging overhaul
- Logo design
- A 300 m² technological pilote plant comprising:
- An experimental kitchen
- Multi-sector pilot equipment (preparation, processing, packaging)
- Access to specialist platforms (technology or sector) at national level
- Nutritional and sensory databases
- Worldwide database of innovative products: XTCscan
- National panel of 10 000 consumers (children/teenagers/adults): 3 sites in the provinces, 1 site in Paris
- Software for 2D and 3D design illustrations
- Video recording of consumer workshops
- Accredited microbiological and physico-chemical analysis laboratories
- Sensory evaluation laboratory (hedonic and descriptive approaches)
- Scientific, technical and regulatory monitoring
