Tate & Lyle is a global provider of distinctive, high-quality food stabiliser systems, ingredients and solutions to the food, beverage, and other industries, with operations around the world.
The company’s experts provide specially designed, safe, robust, and highly functional customised food systems. These individual and creative solutions help customers bring new and exciting food products to market. They are made with decades of technical expertise in manufacturing processes and a wide knowledge of countless raw materials.
Suitable for use in industry sectors such as dairy, convenience, bakery, fruit, ready meals, meat, and fish, Tate & Lyle Food Systems’ solutions are individually tailored to each application’s specific requirements for an individual approach and help provide a competitive edge.
Customised stabiliser systems
Tate & Lyle Food Systems has decades of expertise and is a specialist in food and beverage stabilisation, texturising, and organoleptic profiling.
By drawing on its extensive range of tested and documented raw materials from a host of suppliers, the company combines ingredients to achieve customised, state-of-the-art stabiliser systems with the precise functionality customers require.
Tate & Lyle Food Systems’ customers value the company’s reliability in finding a solution, no matter how complex the issue.
Stabiliser systems for consumer foods
Increasingly, Tate & Lyle Food Systems’ customers experience the company’s inspirational ideas, creative approach, and technical problem solving.
The company puts its knowledge to practical use, employing expertise and know-how to its customised stabiliser systems to open up a whole new world of possibilities across a wide range of applications and market segments.
Tate & Lyle Food Systems helps customers create new consumer foods in application areas such as:
- Dairy products
- Bakery products
- Delicatessen
- Soups and sauces
- Ready meals
- Meat products
- Fruit preparations
- Fish products
- Beverages
- Ice creams
- Filling aids
- Snacks
- Confectionery
Comprehensive technology expertise in product trials and prototyping
At the modern pilot plants, exciting new food and beverage concepts are demonstrated in technical processes via product trials and prototyping.
Customers use the innovation, application, and technical service centres to develop ideas and test new products from concept through to factory trials and commercial production. This means customers will have an understanding of how their products might perform under industrial conditions before committing to launch.
The company’s ten worldwide service centres offer conceptual thinking. Its Centre of Excellence for Innovation, Applications, and Technical Support is located in Lübeck, Germany, while the application and technical centres are based in the US, China, and Brazil. In addition, the company’s technical service centres are located in the UK, Russia, Australia, Singapore, Republic of South Africa (RSA), and China.
Hydrocolloids, proteins, emulsifiers, and flavoured systems production
As food industry suppliers, Tate & Lyle is aware of its responsibility to meet the highest standards of safety and quality at every stage of production. Its production centres deliver food stabiliser systems based on a combination of hydrocolloids, proteins, emulsifiers, and flavored or sweetened systems.
Tate & Lyle provides a global network of eight production sites located in the UK, Italy, Australia, Republic of South Africa, Brazil, China, and two sites in the USA.
Customised product service, food market trends and food innovations
With Tate & Lyle Food Systems, customers can discuss market trends, see the latest food and technical innovations, and be inspired by own developed product concepts. The company helps develop a product by thinking about the target market, suggesting new product ideas, testing prototypes in simulated industrial conditions, discovering the potential for expansion into new categories, and making these ideas happen.
New food applications and innovative food product development
Although we live in an increasingly connected world, people’s tastes vary hugely from country to country. For products to be successful they have to be embedded in the needs of the market and that requires local knowledge.
Tate & Lyle Food Systems has built up decades of knowledge of a whole range of diverse markets through its presence in 36 countries. The company develops its professional and technical services to best reflect the market, meaning clients can access solutions that are tailored to local market demands worldwide.