Cargill Opens New Product Innovation Center

MINNEAPOLIS—Cargill (Cargill.com) is expanding its capabilities to serve the baking industry with the opening of a new ProductInnovationCenter in Minneapolis, Minn. The new center opened in March and allows bakery customers to collaborate directly with Cargill technology experts, working side-by-side on a wide range of new product initiatives. It is part of a network of Cargill bakery applications facilities located in North America and Europe. “The center focuses on new product development and R&D to provide solutions to complex technical challenges,” said Bill Atwell, bakery category technical leader, Cargill. According to Atwell, the launch of Cargill’s ProductInnovationCenter reflects the company’s continuing investment in building its bakery category capabilities. "Cargill helps customers grow their business by seamlessly delivering marketplace knowledge, ingredient technology, bakery formulation and application capabilities to bakery customers,” said Sheryl Stennett, Cargill bakery category vice president. “Our new ProductInnovationCenter, along with the other facilities in our bakery application network, enhance Cargill’s ability to help customers create unique bakery products to fill product pipelines and reduce time to market.”