Commercial Partners
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2021 Commercial Partners
ATS Global
Profile coming soon!
Centric Software
Gain transparency & product lifecycle efficiency with Centric PLM
Food and beverage companies face the same challenges encountered by consumer goods, fashion and retail businesses: getting more products to more markets, faster. But how can you achieve that without compromising on quality?
If you want to achieve better visibility at every stage of product development, connect teams seamlessly in real time and streamline quality control, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions can support your digital transformation. PLM is the backbone technology that drives all product-related activities from concept to retail, providing an up-to-date 'single source of truth' for product data.
Centric Software's modern and mobile PLM solutions enable food brands and retailers to juggle licensed and own-brand product development, handle complex supply chain arrangements and product co-creation with suppliers, satisfy tight retail deadlines, localize labeling to comply with regulations such as INCO (Information to Consumers) and digitize testing and quality data. Say goodbye to error-filled spreadsheets and thousands of emails!
Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to retail, consumer goods, fashion, footwear, outdoor and luxury companies to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Meet us to discover why 300+ companies trust Centric PLM to support 850+ brands, including Modern Gourmet Foods, Auchan, E.Leclerc and Big Lots.
Lloyd's Register
Who we are
We started out in 1760 as a marine classification society. Today, we’re one of the world’s leading providers of professional services for engineering and technology – improving safety and increasing the performance of critical infrastructures for clients in over 75 countries worldwide.
The profits we generate fund the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a charity which supports engineering-related research, education and public engagement around everything we do. All of this helps us stand by the purpose that drives us every single day: Working together for a safer world.
Our approach
In a world of increasing complexity – overloaded with data and opinion – we know that our clients need more than technology to succeed. They need an experienced hand. A partner to listen, cut through the noise and focus on what really matters to them and their customers. Our engineers and technical experts are dedicated to assurance. That means a commitment to embracing new technology and a deep rooted desire to drive better performance. So we consider our customer’s needs with diligence and empathy, then use our expertise and over 250 years’ experience to deliver the smart solution for everyone.
After all, there are some things technology can’t replace.
What makes us unique
Deep technical and industry knowledge
We’re expert in not only understanding the potential in cutting-edge ideas, but applying this pragmatically in ways which guarantee impact today and in the long-term.
Dedication to assurance
We explore every problem thoroughly with exact, analytical precision. We leave no stone unturned and no questions unanswered, to draw accurate conclusions.
Independence
We’re committed to doing things the right way to reach the highest standards and best outcomes for all, giving our clients confidence in our decisions every time.
Understanding and empathy
We take time to understand the needs and unique circumstances of our clients and their businesses, to act with judgement, sensitivity and care.
Social business
We have evolved into the 21st century model for social business – not only funding the Foundation through our profits, but also discharging some of the Foundation’s charitable objectives through our work in assuring the safety of critical infrastructure worldwide.
Veeva Systems
Founded in 2007, Veeva NYSE (VEEV), is a global provider of cloud-based software solutions. We help quality, regulatory and commercial teams in the cosmetics, consumer goods, and chemical industries unify disconnected processes, documents and data. In doing so, we help our customers eliminate inefficiencies so they can bring innovative, high quality products to market faster without compromising compliance. Veeva is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
2020 Commercial Partners
Bio-Rad
Bio-Rad Laboratories has played a leading role in the advancement of scientific discovery for over 60 years. We manufacture tests for food safety with a complete line of solutions for food pathogen testing. We offer a full menu of validated real-time PCR test kits for the detection of key pathogens, culture media for nutritive enrichment and RAPID chromogenic media with easy colony identification for detection of pathogens and enumeration of quality indicators. As an instrument manufacturer, Bio-Rad also provides instrument options for both low- and high-volume users, including our iQ-Check Prep automation system. On the forefront of food safety testing, Bio-Rad has utilized the advanced technology of Droplet Digital PCR for detection of co-localized genetic markers of STEC bacteria. We recently developed as well a real harmonized, sensitive and cost effective method for simultaneous detection of Salmonella and Cronobacter in infant formula and ingredients including milk powders. Our solutions are developed with solid science built on strong partnerships with our customers.
Copan
NewLab, established in 2012, is one of the newest Copan business units, with the mission to provide technologically advanced automated solutions for industrial microbiology. The NewLab innovative approach enables companies and laboratories to benefit from an efficient sample processing that guarantees solid quality performance.
Specifically designed in compliance with ISO standards for microbiological quality control in food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries, Cyclone™ is our automated walk-away system which increases results accuracy and reproducibility while decreasing time and operational costs. PharmaLab™, our new platform capable of digital plate incubation and reading for environmental monitoring, offers reliable results though any audit trail.
We possess the broad-minded professionalism common to all the branches of Copan’s group, to deal with new requests and to tailor our products to your specific needs in today’s fast-paced technological scene. Considered as a strategic technological partner, Copan NewLab supports any of your complex projects.
GE Digital
GE Digital’s mission is to bring simplicity, speed and scale to our customers’ digital transformation with software that helps them to better operate, analyze and optimize their business.
We help today’s digital plant and its mobile, connected workforce accelerate and sustain continuous improvement to drive greater productivity and efficiency, lower total cost of ownership, and increase profitability.
With 30 years delivering software for industry and 21,000 customers worldwide across manufacturing, food & beverage, consumer packaged goods, automotive, water/wastewater, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and beyond, GE Digital can help you solve your industrial challenges.
Hygiena
Hygiena delivers rapid microbial detection, monitoring, and identification solutions to a wide range of industries, including food and beverage, health care, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, and personal care. Utilizing advanced technologies and patented designs, Hygiena provides industry-leading ATP monitoring systems, PCR-based foodborne pathogen detection, DNA fingerprint molecular characterization systems, allergen tests, environmental collection devices, and more. Hygiena is committed to providing customers with high-quality innovative technologies that are easy-to-use and reliable, backed by excellent customer service and support. Headquartered in Camarillo, California, with offices in Wilmington, Delaware, the United Kingdom, and China, and over 80 distributors in more than 100 countries worldwide, Hygiena products span the globe.
Lloyd's Register
Who we are
We started out in 1760 as a marine classification society. Today, we’re one of the world’s leading providers of professional services for engineering and technology – improving safety and increasing the performance of critical infrastructures for clients in over 75 countries worldwide.
The profits we generate fund the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a charity which supports engineering-related research, education and public engagement around everything we do. All of this helps us stand by the purpose that drives us every single day: Working together for a safer world.
Our approach
In a world of increasing complexity – overloaded with data and opinion – we know that our clients need more than technology to succeed. They need an experienced hand. A partner to listen, cut through the noise and focus on what really matters to them and their customers. Our engineers and technical experts are dedicated to assurance. That means a commitment to embracing new technology and a deep rooted desire to drive better performance. So we consider our customer’s needs with diligence and empathy, then use our expertise and over 250 years’ experience to deliver the smart solution for everyone.
After all, there are some things technology can’t replace.
What makes us unique
Deep technical and industry knowledge
We’re expert in not only understanding the potential in cutting-edge ideas, but applying this pragmatically in ways which guarantee impact today and in the long-term.
Dedication to assurance
We explore every problem thoroughly with exact, analytical precision. We leave no stone unturned and no questions unanswered, to draw accurate conclusions.
Independence
We’re committed to doing things the right way to reach the highest standards and best outcomes for all, giving our clients confidence in our decisions every time.
Understanding and empathy
We take time to understand the needs and unique circumstances of our clients and their businesses, to act with judgement, sensitivity and care.
Social business
We have evolved into the 21st century model for social business – not only funding the Foundation through our profits, but also discharging some of the Foundation’s charitable objectives through our work in assuring the safety of critical infrastructure worldwide.
Merck
Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany is a leading company for innovative and top-quality high-tech products for analytical lab work in food. Around 50,000 employees work in 66 countries to foster the success of customers and to help meet global challenges. We have joined forced with BioControl Systems to offer a Full-Service Microbiology Portfolio, e.g. with MVP ICON® for Hygiene Monitoring and with Assurance® GDS for rapid pathogens detection.
Our food microbiology testing products and kits comply with international standards for the food industry. Our granulated media, as well as our ready-to-use agar plates and liquid media, set the trend for regulatory compliance documentation in accordance with the latest standards to support any audits and lab inspections.
Merck offers a complete range of high quality chemical and microbiological testing solutions with a comprehensive approach providing regulatory expertise, substantial service, and trust. Together, we make your work flow.
Merieux NutriSciences
Profile coming soon!
Neogen
NEOGEN
Founded in 1982 in Lansing, Michigan, NEOGEN’s solutions can be found at every step of the food system, around the world.
NEOGEN provides the most comprehensive range of solutions for the food processing, animal protein and agriculture industries, not only protecting the world’s food supply, but also allowing our customers to produce more efficiently and effectively than they could before.
Food Safety
NEOGEN reaches all segments of the food, beverage and feed industries with solutions that include: rapid diagnostics for the detection of unintended substances, hygiene verification tools, innovative pathogen tests, next generation genome sequencing and more.
Animal Safety
NEOGEN develops solutions for the animal protein market, as well as the performance and companion animal segments. We offer veterinary instruments and supplies, cleaners and disinfectants for farm and veterinary settings, insecticides and rodenticides to limit the spread of disease and more.
Genomics
NEOGEN offers genomics solutions that allow animal protein producers to make educated breeding decisions that improve the efficiencies of their herds, breed associations to verify parentage, and for food safety professionals to identify bacterial strains associated with particular disease outbreaks.
Realco
Realco’s main mission is to guarantee the well-being of people. Wherever hygiene is important, we are there to protect and improve their everyday health conditions:
- Ensuring the quality of the food they eat, whether home-cooked or prepared and eaten on site.
- Ensuring perfect hygiene in healthcare facilities, and in particular reducing the risk of hospital-acquired infection.
- Ensuring ideal hygiene in the home
And because we also care about future generations, Realco participates in sustainable development.
We at Realco are able to keep these promises because our technology is centred on enzymes. The enzymatic solutions developed by Realco far outstrip the hygiene levels currently obtained by traditional chemical means. They optimise cleaning efficiency, for controlled, targeted, and—above all—more efficient disinfection. In addition, Realco’s latest exclusive innovations guarantee that all players in the food chain and in the healthcare sector can benefit from the detection and radical treatment of sources of contamination and infection.
Realco is also a dynamic contributor to sustainable development, promoting the well-being of future generations. In fact:
- Enzymes are 100% biodegradable.
- The surfactants used are of vegetable origin (renewable raw materials).
- Enzymatic solutions work efficiently while consuming less energy and water.
- The use of enzymes in cleaning solutions accelerates the water treatment process.
SightCall
SightCall is the world’s leading augmented-reality powered video cloud platform, delivering live, remote interactions between business and customers on every continent around the globe. In a connected, mobile-first world, businesses leveraging SightCall have the ability to see what their customers see and guide them remotely. With over 10 years of experience in remote video assistance, SightCall helps businesses transform their customer service and field service with the power of augmented reality and live video.
Veeva Systems
Founded in 2007, Veeva NYSE (VEEV), is a global provider of cloud-based software solutions. We help quality, regulatory and commercial teams in the cosmetics, consumer goods, and chemical industries unify disconnected processes, documents and data. In doing so, we help our customers eliminate inefficiencies so they can bring innovative, high quality products to market faster without compromising compliance. Veeva is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
2022 Commercial Partners
Biometic
Biometic is founded in 2012 with the idea of employing digital image processing and proprietary X-ray technology in the food industry.
As the food spin-off of the Italian company Microtec, the global market leader in measuring systems and development of automated processes for the wood industry, Biometic has benefited from Microtec's 40 years long experience and know-how in innovative high-speed in-line product scanning and process optimization.
Biometic offers customized solutions made with cutting-edge technologies that involve in-line computed tomography and artificial intelligence. Using these technologies, the company has developed solutions to problems in the food industry that would otherwise be difficult to solve. One of these is Mito, the first and only inline 3D X-ray inspection solution that enables real-time control of each product and optimization of the whole production and process stream.
By integrating computed tomography and the latest image processing algorithms, Biometic is helping food companies guarantee consumer safety and assure a constant quality of the products they distribute as well as the efficiency of their production lines.
BSI
We believe the world should be supplied quality food that is both safe and sustainable. We support the industry with challenges including food safety, food security, sustainability, energy, water, business risk and corporate social responsibility issues across the entire food and beverage supply chain. We provide this support with our expertise in auditing, certification, training, assessment and supply chain solutions, providing assurance against ISO and Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) recognized standards. We help assure your customers confidence and trust, and enable you to manage the risks and opportunities associated with your products, processes, people and respective supply chains.
Christeyns
Christeyns is a prominent B2B player active in the international chemicals and detergents market. The company was established in 1946 in Ghent, where its headquarters are still located. With its extensive product range, Christeyns serves customers in the industrial, laundry, lodging, food retail, food processing and health care sectors. Partly thanks to its sustained focus on service and partnership, the company developed into a leading group, with offices in over 30 countries. In total, Christeyns employs more than 900 people worldwide. Over the past decade, the turnover has increased by an average of 17 percent annually, reaching a consolidated total of 320 million Euros.
Nemis Technologies
NEMIS Technologies’ vision is to minimize microbiological risks. Therefore, we aspire to create a safe value chain by making diagnostics available and affordable to everyone in various applications, like the fields of food safety, clinical diagnostics, water safety, and animal health.
Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information, makes its customers more productive and the world more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., Rockwell Automation employs approximately 22,000 people serving customers in more than 80 countries.
Unison Process Solutions
At Unison, we are experts in liquid processing. We manufacture and supply state-of-the-art systems specialising in pasteurizers, homogenizers, separators, heat exchangers, pumps, and valves.
We also specialise in non-destructive heat exchanger integrity and holding time testing. Our patented HEIST™ and Pastest+™ systems are the most advanced integrity testing methods on the market. These solutions will allow your company to test key heat exchangers quickly and effectively, by utilising cutting-edge technology to reduce the risk of product contamination and costly recalls.
Our aim is simple: we want to reduce your downtime, and save on your costs, by offering innovative, cost-effective solutions to your everyday problems. We don’t rely on outdated integrity and holding tube testing methods. Unison empowers companies to take control, enabling automatic, quick and effective testing before going into production every day.
HEIST™ is setting a new standard for integrity testing and holding time verification.
Veeva Systems
Founded in 2007, Veeva NYSE (VEEV), is a global provider of cloud-based software solutions. We help quality, regulatory and commercial teams in the cosmetics, consumer goods, and chemical industries unify disconnected processes, documents and data. In doing so, we help our customers eliminate inefficiencies so they can bring innovative, high quality products to market faster without compromising compliance. Veeva is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Virobuster
Virobuster have been established in 2002 and initially developed successfully the medical market before entering the food production industry in 2008
The food industry is extremely creative, but new trends are shaping its future by means of consumers demanding an absolute transparency, safe & healthy products and development of clean labels
The importance of air quality in the food industry is often underestimated. A Virobuster Steritube purifies the air in(to) a production facility, freeing it from moulds, spores and bacteria. The air can no longer contaminate the products.
The fact that consumers want more and more light-, bio- and less salted products, means a steady decline in natural preservatives like fats, sugars, salt and chemical preservatives. Of course, this has far-reaching implications for production, logistics and shelf life of a product.
An improvement in air quality can affect shelf life, product safety, flavour , colour, and thus the profitability of the products.
For the food industry, clean air is very important because it is used for cooling down, drying, flushing and packaging. Especially when the products get clean out of an oven, boiling vessel or a fryer, it is unnecessary to post-contaminate the product by contaminated factory air.
2023 Commercial Partners
Beko
iComplai
iComplai is an early warning system for early identification and prediction of risks in the food supply chain. Using AI-powered capabilities, the system informs users on potential risks regarding their raw materials and suppliers, helping them realize significant time and cost benefits as well as avoid recalls.
Through special AI modules like pesticide prediction and food fraud risk alarm, iComplai machine learning system recognizes patterns in the data and makes risk predictions once new data arrives. These predictions enable food manufacturers to take preventive measures and reduce risk of recalls.
With a special view on food fraud risks, organizations can generate the risk portfolio for their raw materials within seconds and utilize it for various certification audits.
Through the iComplai platform users can check the quality of their suppliers, monitor their volumes and the associated product warnings. The early warning platform allows you to rank the different suppliers according to their delivery quality and be alerted if any issue is detected with your suppliers.
The iComplai early warning system data can be integrated with any internal IT applications of customers utilizing various technologies like API connection.
Parsable
Parsable connects workers with the information and systems they need to optimize the frontline. Through our mobile application, we capture data from frontline workers as they complete routine activities on smartphones & tablets. Just one insight can translate into millions of dollars in productivity gains. Leaders of industrial operations use the tools we provide in our Connected Worker platform to boost workforce engagement while digitizing, analyzing, and optimizing frontline workflows and processes.
Safefood 360°
Safefood 360° is the food safety, quality and compliance management software for the forward thinking company. Designed by food safety experts, Safefood 360° offers a comprehensive suite of software solutions specifically designed to help food companies maintain compliance and drive oversight of operations.
With over 35 purpose-built modules, eliminate non-value added time and save resources by ensuring there is one environment for all compliance activity, data, and history that is easily searchable, retrievable and actionable.
The Food Safety Management Solution, created from the requirements of SQFI, BRCGS, ISO, FSSC, FSMA, the Safe Food for Canadians Act and other global standards to allow quality and technical managers to focus on their day-to-day tasks, includes modules for HAACP, PCP and Food Safety Plans as well as a PRP Centre.
The Supplier Quality Management Solution allows for complete global oversight so you can collaborate and communicate directly with all suppliers in one central hub. Signature features include: supplier audits, a supplier portal, supplier chain intelligence and a performance review.
Additionally, Safefood 360° offers RISK, our new standalone solution, which provides entry level, line-of-sight risk analysis using big data sources to gain a clear measure of risk in the supply chain, scan for potential risk trends, and provide valuable input into the development of local HACCP and PCP plans.
Safefood 360° - putting intelligence in your hands.
2023 Commercial Partners
Dassault Systemes
Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, is a catalyst for human progress. We provide business and people with collaborative virtual environments to imagine sustainable innovations. By creating 'virtual twin experiences’ of the real world with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, our customers push the boundaries of innovation, learning and production.