Innovation Tour of Lesaffre

Lesaffre is a key global player in fermentation whose history began in Lille over a century ago. Nowadays, Lesaffre, as a company established on all continents with a 2,2 billion euro turnover, counts 10,700 employees and more than 85 nationalities. On the strength of this experience and diversity, we work with customers, partners and researchers to find ever more relevant answers to the needs of food, health, naturalness and respect for our environment.

As a science and technology company, Lesaffre is continually looking for new opportunities for innovation that will help our customers. To accelerate the development of innovative projects, we are able to draw on 570 R&D experts and three science-focused research platforms.

During the Innovation Tour, guided by our R&D experts, you will explore the infinite potential of microorganisms and 2 science-focused research platforms to accelerate the development of innovative projects. Lesaffre offers two Innovation Tours located at different facilities:

• A research platform focused on microbial diversity and the interactions of microorganisms (yeasts, bacteria, phages, filamentous fungi, etc.) with a wide variety of substrates. Using this platform, we aim to optimize microorganism cultures, exploit them to the fullest and create an optimal environment. Lesaffre’s expertise in fermentation and bioconversion processes lies at the heart of this platform. Our genetics, microbiology, enzymology, genomics, metabolomics, computational biology and bioinformatics researchers use cutting-edge equipment to ramp up research activities such as fermentation and robotized characterization tools.

Program of the Microbial Diversity Tour (2h):

• Presentation of Lesaffre
• Visit of the Life Science unit
• Visit of the Fermentation unit
• Visit of the In Vitro unit
• Questions and networking

• A research platform focused on promoting the transformation of substrates. With expertise in innovative technologies such as autolysis, separation, purification, drying, freeze-drying and encapsulation, we have developed process engineering that enables us to meet our customers’ needs. These include various ferments (yeasts, bacteria and filamentous fungi), other relevant microorganisms and functional fractions, molecules and metabolites for a wide variety of applications.
  

Program of the Transformation Tour (2h):

• Presentation of Lesaffre
• Visit of the Puri Center
• Questions and networking

Please note that you may choose the Innovation Tour in which you have an interest as the tours are scheduled at the same time. 

The innovation tours will take place on March 15th – Registrations are mandatory!