Food Processing & Analytical Services

Launch your innovative food and health products faster, while improving sustainability and quality.

We offer in-house expertise in developing new food products, creating plant-based alternatives and converting food industry by-products into valuable products.

Food Processing Technologies

De-risk your process development and manufacturing operations by working with proven experts. Whether exploring new formulations or expanding production, we have expertise across the entire value chain of innovative food development to support your objectives.

By-product Processing to Recover Value

We help you identify and implement sustainable solutions to convert by-product streams from natural products, into valuable resources, minimising industrial waste and recovering value.

Scale Up of Food & Beverage Tech

Our collaboration with the NZ Food Innovation Network (NZFIN) brings together the expertise you need to develop and optimise your manufacturing processes to carry out food-grade trials at scale. We offer pilot-scale contract manufacturing to bridge the gap between research and full-scale production.

Marine Biomass Processing

Draw upon our expertise in Marine Biomass Processing to improve seafood processing methods and maximise resource utilisation. We apply advanced manufacturing technologies and processes to produce novel bioproducts.

Bee Product Processing

Our collaboration with Process Engineering offers specialised solutions for bee product processing. If you're interested in extracting and processing honey, propolis or other bee-derived products, our expertise ensures you can harness their full potential for various applications.

Food Fraud Detection

Working with our Lipids and Natural Products team, we can assist you in measuring the quantities of various substances in your product, develop customised assays for quality control of batches, and effectively detect fraudulent or adulterated food products.

Meet our experts

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Owen Catchpole Team Leader, Chief Engineer Leader in Industrial Supercritical Extraction

I am the Team Leader and Chief Engineer in the Food Processing and Biotechnologies research group. Here my chemical engineering background gets applied to the development of extraction, separation and fractionation processes for the production of nutraceuticals, functional foods, dietary supplements and cosmeceuticals.

Owen Catchpole Team Leader, Chief Engineer

Campbell Ellison Food Technologist The pie man reinventing food waste

My food technology career has taken me from supermarket product development for chicken sauces, pies and pastries through to commercialising innovations in reducing food waste. At Callaghan Innovation I worked on byproduct utilisation and plant-based beverage development for a startup who creates bread from beer by-products.

Campbell Ellison Food Technologist

Jolin Morel Research Scientist Food Technology, not cooking but chemical engineering

I am a research scientist working in the Food Technology group where we develop processes for innovative companies. My specialism is in high value processes such as Supercritical CO2 extraction. Before joining Callaghan Innovation my doctorate was in the freezing process for ovine milk.

Jolin Morel Research Scientist

Success stories

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Customer story

Citizen: Tackling food waste, one loaf at a time

From bread to beer and back again. Citizen, with the help of Callaghan Innovation, is using food waste and upcycling it into new food and drink products.

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Frenz: The might of mussel creating even healthier eggs

It’s a win-win solution, with egg producer Frenz developing a way to create dry feed for its hens from mussel byproduct. It adds essential nutrients to their diet, and eliminates waste products too.

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Mānuka Health: Pioneering the power of New Zealand propolis

A Kiwi natural health company that helped pinpoint the active compound in Mānuka honey has also, alongside Callaghan Innovation, spent the last decade investigating the protective properties of propolis - and the results are compelling.

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Manuka Bioscience: Developing mānuka oil into a natural antibiotic

With huge growth potential, Mauka Bioscience - alongside Callaghan Innovation - is developing and testing using mānuka oil to more effectively treat skin infections.