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We have a dynamic global network of Nestlé R&D centres working on scientific research and product development. Its scope and reach are global. We have the world's largest food and nutrition research organization, with about 5000 people working in R&D, as well as corporate venture funds and research partnerships with business partners and universities. Nestlé's global R&D is applied locally to meet different consumer needs and preferences through our 320 Application Groups worldwide.
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Centre name
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Opened in 2007
Focus: The Beverage Centre is an Innovation Management Centre made of a cross-functional team fully dedicated to Nestlé Professional. It develops, drives and delivers global beverages solutions.
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Opened in 1972
Focus: PTC Beauvais is Nestlé’s centre of excellence for ice cream. Centralised technology and science platforms together enable fast deployment of developments and allow direct support to markets.
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Opened in 1964
Focus: Delivering healthy feeding solutions for infant and toddlers through science-based products. Nutrition education, promoting healthy eating habits to ensure infants and toddlers maintain optimal health.
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Opened in 1974
Focus: PTC Konolfingen is Nestlé’s centre of excellence for shelf stable milk based products, infant and Healthcare nutritional products and dietetic specialities.
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Opened in 1990
Focus: Lisieux is the centre of excellence for chilled dairy products and healthy drinks. At the heart of the location is a pilot plant fully replicating the complete factory process.
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Opened in 1948
Focus: Marysville is Nestlé’s Product Technology Centre for ready-to-drink beverage development. It also has major programmes in coffee, instant beverages, ice cream coatings, confectionery, non-dairy creamers and milk modifiers
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Opened in 1959
Focus: PTC Orbe is Nestlé’s reference centre for products and technologies in coffee, powdered beverages and cereals, consumed in and out of the home.
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Opened in 2004
Focus: Within Nestlé R&D, PTC Singen is the home of food, bringing culinary art to a level that can be practised at home or used in a professional kitchen. Singen transforms science into technologies that deliver tasty and balanced meals with the highest freshness perception and convenience.
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Opened in 1926
Focus: R&D St Joseph is one of Nestlé’s two centres of excellence for Petcare.
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Opened in 1990
Focus: PTC St Louis is one of Nestlé’s two centres of excellence for PetCare
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Opened in 2003
Focus: PTC Vittel is home for the Nestlé Waters R&D programme. It is a centre of excellence for innovation and renovation including product, packaging, process engineering, packaging materials and sustainability.
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Opened in 1991
Focus: PTC York is Nestlé’s centre of excellence for chocolate, sugar confectionery and biscuits focusing on lighter eating, luxury gifting and popularly positioned products (PPP)
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Opened in 2009
Focus: R&D Abidjan focuses on agriculture, raw materials and traditional African ingredients
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Opened in 1986
Focus: Dedicated to our pet's health and well-being. Undertakes the innovation/renovation of Petcare products. Has pilot plants for both wet and dry products; a Petcare facility and an applied sciences laboratory.
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Opened in 2008
Focus: Safety, quality, nutrition and life sciences research, including work on traditional Chinese medicines, food technology and packaging. The research focus in Nutrition and Life Sciences addresses three key health benefits – growth and development, healthy ageing and weight management. R&D Beijing will strengthen existing research collaborations with scientists in the Greater China region.
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Opened in 1974
Focus: Innovating superior nutrition solutions recognised to serve the needs of patients and care-givers.
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Opened in 1990
Focus: Delivering healthy feeding solutions for infants and toddlers through science-based products. Nutrition education and promoting healthy eating habits to ensure infants and toddlers maintain optimal health.
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Opened in 1992
Focus: Casa Buitoni, in the small Italian town of Sansepolcro, combines Italian culinary skill with nutritional excellence for products full of mediterranean goodness.
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Opened in 2002
Focus: R&D Sderot is a small location but a centre of excellence for cereal snacks. It has strong links with, and provides close support for, the Israeli market.
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Opened in 2001
Focus: R&D Shanghai supports all markets in Asia and Oceania, in particular the Greater China Region. It is a turntable for all Nestlé R&D with regard to Chinese nutrition, research and sourcing.
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Opened in 1982
Focus: R&D Singapore is a vital component in delivering local taste and balance to products which support the rapidly growing Asian markets.
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Opened in 2001
Focus: Solon is a centre of excellence for frozen and chilled culinary products and convenience baking.
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Opened in 1991
Focus: Tours is Nestlé’s centre of excellence for innovation around strategically important plant raw materials; especially coffee, cocoa and chicory. Its focus is on increasing quality and the sustainability of supply
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Opened in 2010
Focus: Nestlé's global research and development in biscuits and cereal-based snacks, focusing both on innovation and renovation of products.
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Focus: ice cream
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The Nestlé Research Centre, at its four locations in Lausanne, St Louis, Beijing and Tokyo, specialises in food, nutrition, safety, quality and life sciences. The Nestlé Research Centre plays a crucial role in providing the scientific and technological basis for renovation and innovation across the whole of Nestlé’s product portfolio.
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Opened in 2010
A specialised biomedical research institute based on the campus of the world-renowned Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. The institute aims to better understand chronic human diseases and ageing as influenced by metabolism, genetics and environment.
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Opened in 2009
Focus: The Chocolate Centre of Excellence, located at Nestlé's chocolate factory in Broc, is the company's first R&D facility entirely dedicated to the development of premium and luxury chocolate.
