Innovation

Our R&D expertise

FrieslandCampina focuses its innovation on producing healthy, nutritious, well-balanced and tasty food, making best use of the nutritional benefits of milk.

So much to do, luckily we have focus

R&D encompasses a number of different fields of research and applications. From immunology to process technology and from oligosaccharides in infant nutrition to the best desserts for cooks. We ensure that consumers have access to the tastiest possible cheese, we improve production through data analysis and minimal processing, enabling the supply of nutrient-rich dairy products, and we allow member dairy farmers to run their dairy farms more sustainably.

With our expertise, we focus on the areas of nutrition, milk components, process technology, products, packaging, sustainability and dairy farming.

  • Nutrition

    FrieslandCampina is making efforts to acquire even better insight into the nutritional needs of people in different countries and cultures.
  • Milk components

    The four hundred components in milk offer tremendous potential for a wide range of products and applications.
  • Process technology

    We are focused on the development of new, and the optimisation of existing, production processes.
  • Products

    Understanding the sensory properties of a product consequently is an important step in developing and improving products.
  • Packaging

    Packaging protects products against external influences. When developing packaging, environmental impact plays a significant role.
  • Dairy farming

    We are conducting research on sustainable and future-proof dairy farming.

Sustainability

We use our innovation power to reduce environmental impact throughout the entire chain, from grass to glass. This includes researching technology to decrease our energy and water consumption and developing more sustainable packaging. We also devise solutions to lower the environmental impact of the dairy sector.