STORIES IN THE MAKING
Let’s explore how partnering with our team of experts can revolutionize your journey from concept to market—without interrupting your daily workflow.
Testing Without Disruption
Innovation is essential, but experimenting with new formulations or processes can create bottlenecks in your current operations. SPX FLOW solves this challenge by offering cutting-edge Innovation Centers around the world, where you can test and refine your recipes and manufacturing processes without disrupting your existing production lines.
By partnering with SPX FLOW, manufacturers can:
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Experiment risk-free: Test new ingredients and technologies with expert guidance—without the risk of affecting your ongoing operations. The trials are custom-tailored to your needs and subject to the strictest confidentiality.
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Optimize production efficiency: Fine-tune processes from research and development to final production, ensuring seamless upscaling integration into your existing systems.
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Accelerate time to market: Leverage our end-to-end process development to speed up the transition from concept to shelf-ready product.
With facilities strategically located across key global markets—including Silkeborg and Soborg, Denmark; Dubai, UAE (in partnership with SIG Combibloc); Shanghai, China; Mamirolle, France (in partnership with ENIL University); and Getzville, USA—SPX FLOW provides localized support while ensuring that best practices from around the world are at your disposal.
Standing Out from the Competition
Our Innovation Centers deliver comprehensive solutions—from initial recipe development to industrial added-value and sustainable solutions, minimizing waste and energy requirements. We help customers refine their entire manufacturing strategy, ensuring that products can be produced efficiently, consistently and at scale. This holistic approach ensures speed to market without compromising on quality.
Global Innovation Centers: Where Solutions Are Born
Our six global Innovation Centers are designed to meet the diverse needs of food and beverage manufacturers worldwide:
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Silkeborg, Denmark:
Run full-scale trials of your food and beverage processes at our Silkeborg facility. With advanced mixing and blending — membrane filtration— thermal treatment technologies, we ensure that products are perfected before reaching consumers. A complete line is designed to extract nutritional components from grains and make new plant-based beverages.
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Dubai, UAE:
In partnership with SIG Combibloc, this center allows manufacturers to test aseptic technologies and packaging—critical for regions where long shelf-life products are essential.
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Shanghai, China:
Serving one of the world’s fastest-growing food markets, our Shanghai center focuses on creating scalable solutions that meet local consumer preferences while optimizing production efficiency.
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Mamirolle, France:
Partnering with ENIL University, our Mamirolle center specializes in fresh dairy innovation, offering resources to fine-tune everything from recipes development to fermentation solutions including plant-based dairy alternatives.
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Søborg, Denmark:
Our Søborg center is the go-to facility for evaporation and spray drying solutions, perfect for manufacturers looking to optimize ingredients processes. A compete fats and oils crystallization line also offers cutting-edge margarine development.
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Getzville, USA:
The SPX FLOW Innovation Center in Getzville, New York, specializes in fluid dynamics and heat transfer technologies, offering advanced evaporation and spray drying technologies for testing and process development solutions for the food, beverage and industrial sectors.
Faster to Market, Ready for Trends
As consumer preferences evolve at breakneck speed, food and beverage manufacturers need a partner that not only helps them innovate but also brings their products to market quickly. With SPX FLOW, you can:
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Test new recipes efficiently in our world-class facilities with in-house laboratory assistance without disrupting your current operations.
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Optimize your end-to-end processes, ensuring new products are high quality and produced in the most efficient way possible.
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Stay ahead of trends, utilizing insights and advanced technologies from our global Innovation Centers or rental pilot plants to run tests at your own premises and to outpace the competition.
Why Choose SPX FLOW?
Partnering with SPX FLOW means gaining access to more than just equipment or technology—it means having a full-scale innovation partner at your side. We offer a holistic approach, from recipe development to full-scale production trials to test high-risk projects prior to order and ensure your products meet industry trends and consumer demands.
In an industry where timing is everything, SPX FLOW is your competitive edge to getting to market faster and more efficiently—all while keeping your day-to-day operations running smoothly and guaranteeing yield optimization of your process.
Ready to bring your next breakthrough product to market? Contact SPX FLOW today to unlock the power of our Innovation Centers and accelerate your product development process.
Post Author
Global Innovation Centers Leader
Thomas Leroy is the Global Innovation Centers Leader at SPX FLOW. He works to ensure the most accurate trials are conducted at the test centers worldwide, collaborating with teams to gather valuable data that can be scaled up for industrial production lines.
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