Innovation & Trends

At CQC, we create innovative ingredients for your success. If you can dream it, we will try it!

Innovation Team

The Innovation Team is made up of Food Scientists and Lab Technicians who offer more than 80 years of experience. This highly trained team can be found fine tuning new formulations in our spacious Innovation Center or cooking up new product ideas in our Applications Kitchen.

Clasen R&D team members in the test lab

The Innovation Team is made up of Food Scientists and Lab Technicians who offer more than 80 years of experience. This highly trained team can be found fine tuning new formulations in our spacious Innovation Center or cooking up new product ideas in our Applications Kitchen.

Innovation Center

In our CQC Innovation Center we’ll partner with you on product development, including:

  • Customized formulations
  • Product matching
  • Nutritional enhancements
  • Lab scale samples representative of full scale actual production runs
  • Sensory panel testing
  • Samples shipped to you as: bars, drops, chunks, ribbons, or liquid

Trends

We are trend-aware and get our inspiration about what is new and interesting from all around us. In fact, you could call us foodies who gather the latest information from our suppliers, industry trade shows, popular food blogs, and by leaning on our own culinary backgrounds.

Armed with the latest info, our R&D team reviews new trends and experiments with our coatings to see how we can best meet those trends.

Application Kitchen

The beautiful CQC gourmet kitchen allows our food scientists to experiment and innovate with finished products. It also offers you the opportunity to work along side our own scientists to increase your success rate and speed to market.