Food innovation centre company success stories

[Music plays and CSIRO logo and text appears: Teff, Ancient grain, new again]

[Music plays and images move through of an aerial view of farm buildings and vehicles, Fraser McNaul driving a ute, Fraser McNaul walking towards a silo and then spilling grain through his hands]

[Image changes to show Fraser McNaul and another male standing in a field of Teff and then bending down and looking at the stalks]

Fraser McNaul: Farming’s becoming tougher and tougher and the margins are becoming smaller so we really need to diversify and move into other areas. 

[Image changes to show Thu and another male bending down looking at the crop and then the camera zooms in on a Teff stalk being held in the hand]

We have a mixed farming enterprise and rice is our traditional crop. 

[Images move through of a side view of Fraser McNaul, the Teff crop being harvested, a close-up view of the harvester and then Fraser McNaul, Thu and another male looking at the stalks of Teff]

We grow other crops including wheat and barley and oats and a couple of years ago we started looking around and we came across Teff. 

[Image changes to show Fraser McNaul standing in front of a harvester and talking to the camera and text appears: Fraser McNaul, Outback Harvest]

Hi, I’m Fraser McNaul and I’m a farmer from the New South Wales Riverina.

[Music plays and images move through of Fraser McNaul smiling at the camera and then Fraser McNaul, Thu and another male walking towards the camera through the Teff crop]

Teff is an ancient grain that originates from Ethiopia. 

[Camera pans down into the crop they are walking through]

It’s been a staple in their diet for thousands of years and we wanted to trial it and create Teff products designed for the Western palate. 

[Images move through of Fraser McNaul and another male watching Thu holding a sheaf of Teff stalks, all three bending down and looking at the crop and then the crop itself]

Teff is a nutritious, gluten free wholegrain with a nice nutty flavour and no allergies and the scientific data shows that

[Images move through of grain running through a hopper, grain being poured from hand to hand, Fraser McNaul talking to the camera, Thu and Fraser walking into a room]

it’s a good source of iron, calcium, fibre and resistant starch and it’s also got a protein level similar to wheat and a good amino acid balance.

[Image shows Fraser and Thu walking through a door and into the CSIRO facility and then the camera zooms in on a back view of them as they walk]

We worked with the CSIRO developing prototype Teff foods. 

[Image shows Fraser and Thu handling long strands of extruded snacks as they come out of a machine]

We’ve got Teff bread, muffins and also extruded snacks. 

[Images move through of strands of extruded snacks, crunchy extruded snack balls in a container, held in the hands, in the machine, in a container and Thu and Fraser tasting them]
 
The extruded snacks are crunchy, ball size and they can be used either as a crispy snack or they could also be used in cereals depending on the way that you wanted to dry them after they come out of the extruder and they’ve got a potential to be a really healthy snack or cereal.

[Images move through of a male pouring Teff product from a bag into a bucket, Teff product moving through a machine and a close-up view of Thu’s face]

Without CSIRO and FIAL all we would be able to do would be have a grain and a flour product and in the long term that’s not vertically integrating or helping us out as farmers. 

[Images move through of a male operating a touch screen, the male’s face and a computer screen display]

So, we really wanted to do the value added products which FIAL and CSIRO have been able to help us with.

[Image changes to show Fraser McNaul talking to the camera]

We wouldn’t have been able to do anything.  We’re not Scientists. 

[Image changes to show a back, side and then an aerial view of Fraser, Thu and another male walking through the crop and then the image changes to show Thu, Fraser and a female in the lab]
 
We’re good at growing the crop and looking after that side of it and the CSIRO and FIAL have been able to put us in contact with industry leaders and manufacturers which has been a real benefit to our business.

[Camera zooms in on Thu cracking an egg into a bowl and then the camera zooms in on Thu’s face]

One of the main people I worked with at CSIRO was Thu. 

[Images move through of Fraser, Thu and another female looking down, the bowl of ingredients and Thu stirring the bowl of ingredients while the other two look on]

She’s been absolutely fantastic to work with. 

[Image changes to show Thu, Fraser and another male walking through the crop of Teff and then Thu picking up and looking at the stalks and then looking at grains in her hands]

There’s been weekly conversations backwards and forwards on updates on how we’re getting along and it’s been great to bring her out here and show her where the origins of the Teff comes from that she’s been working on in the lab.

[Image changes to show Fraser McNaul talking to the camera and then images move through of a female looking down, the extruded snack strands and Fraser tasting the extruded snack]

FIAL have been great with networks being able to put us in touch with Government officials that can help us with grants and also themselves helping with grants. 

[Images move through of the extruded snack strands being produced and then the camera zooms in on a pile of extruded snack strands and then the extruded snack strands being turned in the hands]

And also helping, putting us in contact with industry leaders who helped progress our prototypes, I guess.

[Images move through of two males at a machine, muffin mix in a bowl, Fraser McNaul looking down and smiling, Thu opening an oven, muffins on the bench and muffins next to packets of Teff products]

The muffin mixes that we developed with the CSIRO taste fantastic and they’re just about ready for commercialisation and release into the retail and wholesale markets and we’ve also been certified by Coeliac Australia and New Zealand. 

[Image changes to show Fraser and Thu looking at packets of Teff products and then the camera zooms in on Fraser talking and then a packet of Teff product Thu is holding]

We’ve started engaging with smaller retailers, independents, greengrocers and also health food stores, distributing our retail products. 

[Image changes to show a back view of a male walking through a Teff crop to the harvester and then the image changes to show the male climbing up inside the harvester]

Our long-term goal would be to export our Australian grown Teff to not only Asia but the rest of the world.

[Images move through of an aerial view of a harvester in the crop and the camera pans in an anticlockwise direction and then image shows an aerial view looking directly down on the harvester]

It’s been a long road but it’s been, you know it’s been really fun. 

[Images move through of Fraser McNaul getting out of a ute, an aerial view of the farm buildings and silos and Thu and Fraser walking towards the silos]

We really enjoy doing this sort of thing and it’s something a bit different to farming.

[Image changes to show Fraser opening a hatch in the silo, Thu catching some grain in her hand and pouring it into Fraser’s hand and then Teff grain running through a hatch]

The goal is to grow the Teff industry in Australia and have this become a major part of our farming operation. 

[Image changes to show Fraser McNaul standing in the foreground of a crop of Teff and talking to the camera]

So, look out for Teff in your local health food store.

[Music plays and the image shows Fraser McNaul walking across the Teff crop towards a harvester in the background and the camera gradually pans up to show an aerial view]

[CSIRO, FIAL, Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation and Science and Industry Growth Centres logos and text appears: The Enterprise Solution Centre, A collaboration between CSIRO and FIAL, csiro.au, fial.com.au]

[CSIRO logo and text appears: Australia’s innovation catalyst]

ProPortion Foods video

[Music plays and CSIRO logo and text appears: ProPortion Foods, Nutrition for active and healthy aging]

[Image changes to show Kevin Beaman walking down a corridor, into a room and sitting down behind a desk and then the camera zooms in on Kevin Beaman’s hands on the laptop keyboard and then the laptop screen]

[Image changes to show Kevin Beaman smiling at the camera]

Kevin Beaman: Hi, my name’s Kevin Beaman and I’m CEO of ProPortion Foods. 

[Image changes to show Kevin Beaman sitting at his desk and talking to the camera and text appears: Kevin Beaman, CEO, ProPortion Foods]

Our company’s mission is to create great tasting foods and nutritional supplements

[Image changes to show a back view of Kevin Beaman looking at a computer screen displaying ProPortion Food products]

to support active and healthy aging.

[Images move through of a side view of Kevin Beaman smiling, a male working at a laptop, the male’s face and the male’s hands on the keyboard]

 For the past 15 years, we’ve worked closely with health care institutions throughout Australia to provide them with snacks and desserts. 

[Image changes to show Kevin Beaman sitting at his desk and talking to the camera]

Now, with the assistance of CSIRO and FIAL, we’re developing exciting new products. 

[Image changes to show Kevin Beaman and Louise Bennett walking towards the camera and then the image shows them turning into a room and then the camera shows a back view of them walking]

We approached CSIRO and FIAL to assist us in identifying a novel protein ingredient

[Image shows Kevin Beaman and Louise Bennett approaching two males in front of a machine and then the image shows all four of them looking at a computer screen and then the camera zooms in on Kevin Beaman and Louise Bennett’s faces]

that could be effective in maintaining muscle mass and muscle strength in older adults. 

[Image shows a male operating a machine to fill a bottle and then the image changes to show Kevin Beaman talking to the camera]

Sarcopenia, the age-related loss of lean muscle mass is a major contributor to falls and fractures that costs Australian health care providers billions of dollars annually. 

[Image changes to show liquid flowing into the bottle via a tube and then the camera zooms in on the top of the bottle and then the image changes to show a hand turning off the tap for the liquid]

Their expertise in food innovation and nutrition made CSIRO an ideal partner for us. 

[Image changes to show Kevin Beaman talking to the camera and then the image changes to show Kevin Beaman and a male and female talking at a table]

We’re very grateful to FIAL for providing funding assistance for this project. 

[Camera zooms in on the male and the female and then the camera zooms in on the female]

Without this funding, we wouldn’t have been able to move forward. 

[Image changes to show Kevin Beaman talking to the camera and nine people symbols appear in the bottom left hand corner of the screen and text appears: 2 billion by 2050]

According to the United Nations two billion people will be over the age of 60 by 2050.  That’s a threefold increase in a single generation. 

[Image changes to show elderly people sitting and eating in a café and then the camera zooms in on three males and then the camera zooms in on one of the male’s faces]

We’re living longer but for many of us the quality of our later years is being affected by poor health and disease. 

[Images move through of people talking and people at the counter]

The right nutrition can play a vital role in maintaining our good health.

[Image changes to show Louise Bennett and Kevin Beaman walking around manufacturing equipment and then the camera zooms in on Kevin Beaman talking to the camera]

Thanks to CSIRO and FIAL we’ve been able to access world class research expertise and leading edge technology which will enable us to develop novel nutritional solutions to support better outcomes for healthy aging. 

[Image changes to show Louise Bennett smiling at the camera]

Louise Bennett: Hi, I’m Louise Bennett. 

[Image changes to show the outside of the CSIRO Food Innovation Centre and then the image shows a back view of Kevin Beaman and Louise Bennett walking along the carpark and entering the building]

I’m a Research Scientist at CSIRO and I develop functional foods.  Kevin came to us seeking a protein ingredient that was different

[Image changes to show a specimen jar with liquid inside]

 to anything in the market place. 

[Image changes to show Louise Bennett pouring the whey product into a sample cup and tasting some and then giving a sample cup to Kevin Beaman to taste]

We’ve developed methods of processing and formulating milk products and we’ve developed a specialised whey product. 

[Camera zooms in on Louise Bennett drinking the liquid and then the image changes to show Kevin Beaman drinking the whey sample product]

Along with ProPortion Foods and FIAL we’ve prototyped some protein rich foods. 

[Image changes to show Kevin Beaman and Louise Bennett talking together and then the image changes to show Louise Bennett talking to the camera and text appears: Dr Louise Bennett, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO]

These foods can be tailored to need depending on stage of life or activity and

[Image changes to show a female walking down a corridor towards the camera and then the image changes to show the female looking at a machine and then sitting down and working on a computer]

we don’t think there’s anything else like them on the market.  By combining our expertise with ProPortion Foods we have the best chance of these advanced protein products reaching consumers in need.

[Camera zooms in on the computer screen the female is looking at and then the camera zooms in on the female’s face]

Kevin Beaman: We’re excited to work with CSIRO on something we feel deeply passionate about

[Image changes to show the female squirting liquid into plastic containers and then putting plastic tubes into a machine]

and in which we all have a vested personal interest. 

[Image changes to show Kevin Beaman talking to the camera]

Keeping active and being healthy is something I’m sure most of us would want in our later years.

[Music plays and CSIRO, FIAL and Department of Industry, Innovation and Science logos and text appears: The Enterprise Solution Centre, A collaboration between CSIRO and FIAL, csiro.au, fial.com.au]

[CSIRO logo and text appears: Australia’s innovation catalyst]

[Music plays and CSIRO logo and text appears: Clextral, New technology; new foods]

[Images flash through of Maxime Collado walking through a factory and then working on a computer and then the camera zooms in on Maxime Collado and text appears: Maxime Collado, Project Engineer, Clextral]

Maxime Collado: Clextral is a French company manufacturing extrusion production lines.

[Images flash through of Maxime Collado and two other employees working in the factory]

With the Australian company Innovo we’ve developed award first technology that could lead to big changes in the food industries.

[Camera zooms in on one of the employees and then images flash through of the employee looking at a screen and then the image changes back to Maxime Collado again.]

 The possible future commercial impact for this technology is estimated in hundreds of millions of dollars. 

[Image changes to show Maxime Collado and another employee operating a machine, looking into a stainless steel pot and then the camera zooms in on the powder in the pot]

Extrusion porosification technology, or EPT, is a technology used to dry high concentrated products. 

[Image shows Maxime Collado taking a sample of the powder from the pot]

EPT can handle much more viscous solids than conventional spray drying.

[Image changes back to Maxime Collado and then images flash through of employees working and then image reverts to Maxime Collado]

Advantageous for EPT compared to conventional spray drying technology are better functionality for the products, the flexibility of the platform, energy savings and finally better flavour retention. 

[Image changes to show an employee inspecting the sample in the pot and then images flash through of machinery]

We’ve searched globally for a partner to set up our first pilot plant. 

[Image changes to show an employee looking at a computer screen then the camera zooms in on the sample again]

We’ve choosen to come here to CSIRO because they were the only one able to provide the technical and analytical supports.

[Image changes to show Maxime Collado and then the camera pans along the machinery in the factory and images flash through of an employee operating a machine, Maxime Collado, Maxime Collado inspecting the samples of coffee and then the camera zooms in on the sample]

In collaboration with CSIRO and FIAL through the SME solution centre we’ve piloted EPT applications for high protein dairy and coffee products and we were able to confirm that coffee made with our technology retained more aroma than conventional spray drying does. 

[Camera zooms out to show Maxime Collado and another employee looking at a sample and then images flash through of Maxime Collado in the factory]

This means we’re able to make a soluble coffee powder which tastes the same as fresh roasted coffee. 

[Image changes to show Maxime Collado again]

The funding through FIAL means that we could develop new commercial prototypes and it gets new potential customers at the door.

[Image changes to show an employee working on a computer then the camera pans up to show the employee at his desk]

Overall the work showed that this technology offers real innovation opportunities for the food industry. 

[Image changes to show an employee walking into the Flavourtech building and then images flash through of employees working in the Flavourtech factory]

Our first commercial partner was Flavourtech based in regional New South Wales.  They’ve decided to license our technology for the coffee industries. 

[Image changes to show an employee pouring coffee beans into a hopper]

Partnering with global major company like Flavourtech gives us an access to the coffee and tea industries. The flexibility of the EPT is what is exciting for customers.

[Image changes back to show Maxime Collado and then images flash through of Maxime Collado with two other employees pouring samples and then the camera zooms in on the samples] 

We are able to imagine new ingredients for products such as probiotics, bioactives or flavour that could not be made on standard and conventional drying technologies. 

[Image changes to show Maxime Collado and then the image changes to show two employees operating a machine]

We wouldn’t have been able to do this without the help from CSIRO and their access to a world range of equipment and expertise in the food industry.

[Image changes to show Maxime Collado]

The food application we’ve explored so far is only the tip of the iceberg and there’s a lot more potential application that could go through this technologies.  Companies are welcome to come knock on our door to see how this technology could help them.

[CSIRO, FIAL and Australian Government logos appear with text: The SME Solution Centre, A collaboration between CSIRO and FIAL]

[Music plays and CSIRO logo appears with text: Big ideas start here www.csiro.au]

[Music plays and text appears: ‘Community Chef: Shaping prepared meals for those in need’]

[Image changes to show the outside of the Community Chef Building and then images flash through of the inside production area of Community Chef]

[Image appears of Joe Ciccarone]

Joe Ciccarone: Hi I’m Joe Ciccarone and I’m proud to be the C.E.O. of Community Chef.

[Image changes to show Joe Ciccarone talking to an employee and then the camera zooms in on the worker weighing food]

[Image changes back to Joe Ciccarone]

Community Chef is a social enterprise that was formed by local government to meet the dietary needs of those that are nutritionally at risk in the community. Typically those that receive Meals on Wheels and now we’ve expanded into hospitals and aged care communities, health and community care and even child and family services.

[Image changes to show meals being prepared on a production line]

Community Chef discovered a need to review the formulation of their meals. The elderly cohort were finding it difficult to eat such a large meal. They’re old, they’re frail and they don’t have big appetites.

[Image changes back to Joe Ciccarone]

So to ask someone who’s 90 years old to consume a meal that weighs almost a kilo is just not feasible. They’re also fearful of wastage.

[Camera zooms in on the reduced size meal package and then zooms out to show a worker packaging the meals]

We realised we needed to do something about that and one of the ways we could see that we could have a positive impact on it was by reducing the size of the meals by increasing the nutritional density of the meals.

[Image changes back to Joe Ciccarone]

We thought about how we could run that project internally, came to the conclusion we just didn’t have the in house capability to do that.

[Image changes to show a woman walking into the CSIRO building and then the camera pans around the inside of the building showing the different work stations]

So we made a connection with the CSIRO and through them FIAL and we were able to secure enough funding to get the project off the ground.

[Camera zooms in on a female CSIRO employee working at the computer and then the camera zooms in on her hands, her face and the dietary books on her desk]

[Image changes back to Joe Ciccarone and then the camera zooms out to show the meals being prepared on the production line again]

Because of the relationship with the CSIRO and FIAL we were able to gain access to the best dietetics minds in Australia combining that with our own in house knowledge and come up with solutions to some of the problems we were facing. Able to increase the nutritional density of our meals using natural ingredients like a milk powder, like beans to boost that nutritional content and get the meal size down.

[Image changes back to Joe Ciccarone and the camera zooms out to show the meals in preparation]

[Images flash through of meals in preparation, a large vat of beans, a worker filling out paperwork, a vat of rice, meals on a conveyer belt and then the camera zooms out to show Joe Ciccarone again]

Without the assistance of a FIAL S.M.E. Centre and the CSIRO we wouldn’t have been able to take these next advances in our menu development to offer a more nutritionally dense meal that clearly benefits our own business but something that we’re going to make available to the wider community.

[Image flash through of meals on a conveyer belt, a female employee and an employee packaging meals]

It also gives us a springboard to approach government and look at a review of the food standards themselves to make sure that they’re relevant in today’s terms.

[Image changes back to Joe Ciccarone]

[Image changes to show the Crown St Stables Community Cafe and the camera pans around the room showing the elderly patrons]

Other ways in which we’re working with local government is in their own social enterprise activities. So Moonee Valley have been really innovative in the way that they’re trying to get good nutrition out into their elderly community.

[Image changes to show an employee serving a customer and then images flash through of the food in preparation]

They recognise that the face of Meals on Wheels is changing and that the whole market’s changing.

[Image changes to show the waiter delivering the meals to the elderly patrons at the table]

People aren’t as sedentary. They’re ageing more healthily which means they’re more mobile and they don’t want to be sitting at home waiting for someone to knock on their door and deliver a meal. We see our role as adding further benefit to the wider community by providing meals into new markets.

[Music plays and text appears: ‘With thanks to Crown Street Stables Community Cafe, a Moonee Valley City Council Initiative. Crown St Stables Community Cafe and City of Moonee Valley’]

[Music plays and CSIRO, FIAL and Australian Government logos appear with text: The SME Solution Centre, A collaboration between CSIRO and FIAL’

[Music plays and CSIRO logo appears with text: Big ideas start here www.csiro.au]

[Music plays and text appears: Preshfood, High pressure innovation]

 [Images show male walking into factory building and through factory. Image changes to show Alastair Mclachlan, CEO, Preshafood]

 Alastair Mclachlan: We produce a range of products including single variety apple juices, vegetable juices and smoothies.

 [Images flash through various factory processes]

Our life began at the CSIRO. The initial production occurred in the CSIRO food sciences labs. We were really looking for a product that nobody had ever experienced before. To provide shelf life, traditional processes have to heat their products or add preservatives which destroys the nutrition, taste, colour and flavour of juices.

[Image shows Alastair Mclachlan, CEO, Preshafood]

We don’t have to do that at all.

[Image shows factory machinery]

HPP is an emerging technology that uses extremely high pressure rather than heat to kill yeasts, mould and bacteria.

[Images flash through various factory processes]

The unique benefits of HPP are that it gives chilled foods an extended shelf life and doesn’t affect the flavour, colour and nutritional value. It’s all about taste and once you taste it you’ll never go back.

[Image shows Alastair Mclachlan, CEO, Preshafood]

The success of Preshafruit juices is great for everyone.

[Images flash through various factory processes]

From growers to bottle suppliers, carton manufacturers, everyone has been able to participate in the success. Recently we’ve worked with one of our major suppliers Montagues. Using our technology we’ve been able to develop a Jazz single variety apple juice that has spectacular taste.

[Image shows Alastair Mclachlan, CEO, Preshafood]

We see working together with Montagues as an excellent opportunity to provide the market with another superior apple juice.

[Images flash through various factory processes]

Over the past six months we’ve doubled the size of the factory, added a second HPP machine and this has resulted in 20 additional employees and significantly more opportunity for growth in the business over the next four to five years.

[Image shows Alastair Mclachlan, CEO, Preshafood]

Over the last few years we’ve been developing the market in Asia because there are very few other products that are of similar quality in their markets.

[Images flash through various factory processes]

So we see over the next five years many opportunities to grow those markets with a super premium juice that they’ve never experienced previously.

[Image shows Alastair Mclachlan, CEO, Preshafood]

Preshafood is living proof that you can work with the CSIRO to develop super premium products that have not been available to the Australian market or world markets in the past.

[Images flash through various factory processes. Image changes back to Alastair Mclachlan, CEO, Preshafood]

One thing that I am sure of is we would never be in the position that we are now if we didn’t start with the collaborative work with CSIRO.

[Image shows Alastair Mclachlan, CEO, Preshafood standing in front of Preshafood factory]

[Music plays and CSIRO logo appears with text: Big ideas start here www.csiro.au]

Goodman Fielder – Safe Innovation

[Music plays, CSIRO logo appears on bottom right hand corner of screen, and text appears:  Goodman Fielder – Safe innovation]

[Image changes to show various images of people working in a laboratory]

[Image changes to show bottles of product]

[Image changes to show the Goodman Fielder logo with text:  goodman fielder our homegrown food company]

[Image changes to show Andre Teixeira]

Andre Teixeira:  I’m Andre Teixeira, Chief R&D and Quality Officer for Goodman Fielder in Sydney.

[Image changes to show Andre Teixeira smiling]

[Image changes to show various images of people working in a laboratory]

[Image changes to show various images of baked breads]

[Image changes to show a man removing bread from an oven]

[Image changes back to Andrew Teixeira]

Goodman Fielder is a food company with a long tradition of supplying consumers in Australia and New Zealand and the Pacific area with a number of food products, among them dressings and mayonnaise and sauces of all kinds.

[Image changes to show a woman carrying a tray of various product bottles]

[Image changes to show various images of people working in a laboratory]

The challenge on this project was that we’re both looking at a taste improvement with the elimination or reduction of vinegar, and at the same time addressing the major health and wellness issue in reducing the amount of sugar and salt in our product, while guaranteeing the perfect food safety.

[Image changes back to Andrew Teixeira]

We came to CSIRO with a problem.

[Image changes to show a man working in a laboratory]

They introduced us to FIAL and the SME Solution Centre, and together we developed a solution for our dressings that was reformulated to our taste, and at the same time with perfect food safety.

[Image changes back to Andrew Teixeira]

[Image changes to show a woman performing an experiment in a laboratory]

We were quite happy to see that CSIRO had already developed a number of solutions that matched exactly what we were looking for potentially in terms of addressing this need for new tastes, while guaranteeing the food safety.

[Image changes back to Andrew Teixeira]

[Image changes to show various images of people working in a laboratory]

Through the SME Solution Centre we’re able to access FIAL’s funding, and CSIRO expertise, which helped us significantly to achieve the goals that we started out with.

[Image changes to show various bottles of product]

[Image changes back to Andrew Teixeira]

We couldn’t have done the work in-house fundamentally because we do not have the scientific capability.

[Image changes to show various images of a food processing plant and products moving on a conveyor belt to be packaged]

[Image changes to show various images of products on shelves]

[Image changes back to Andrew Teixeira]

The difference from where we were before and where we are today as a result of this relationship between FIAL, ourselves, and CSIRO, is the fact that we did not have to invest in scientific capabilities that would take a number of years to materialise and to bear fruit, and we had immediate access to an existing knowledge base that was at arm’s reach for us.

[Image changes to show various images of people working in a laboratory]

And we could immediately see the results by co-operating, by working together in a very collaborative manner.

[Image changes back to Andrew Teixeira]

[Image changes to show various images of people working in a laboratory]

The SME Solution Centre, which is a partnership between FIAL and CSIRO, has provided training via CSIRO to our new product development team in the use of the tool.  That training has a major impact in the way we reformulate products for this project and beyond.

[Image changes back to Andrew Teixeira]

[Image changes to show various images of a food processing plant and products moving on a conveyor belt to be packaged]

The relationship in the future, it can only go further and further and further, because obviously when you have success in one area we immediately become curious about what else we could do.

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[Image changes to show various images of a food processing plant and products moving on a conveyor belt to be packaged]

[Image changes to show a man driving a forklift]

There are a number of other opportunities, not just problems, but opportunities to create new ideas and bring those ideas into concepts that eventually can become projects for the future.

[Image changes back to Andrew Teixeira]

[Text appears on screen:  The SME Solution Centre, a collaboration between CSIRO and FIAL.  Various logos appear at the bottom of the screen:  CSIRO; FIAL Food Innovation Australia Ltd; Supported by Australian Government]

 [CSIRO logo appears with text: Big ideas start here www.csiro.au]

[Music plays CSIRO logo and text appears: We asked CSIRO]

[Image changes to outside Popina Food Services building. Then inside to someone operating a forklift and muesli bars being made]

[Image changes to Arnold May, Popina Foods]

Arnold May: Our core business has always been in food manufacture, primarily muesli based breakfast cereals and more recently over about the last ten years we've been making muesli bars.

[Image of different muesli based food products on shelves appear on screen]

We'd heard about a new grain that CSIRO had developed over many years called BARELYmax through their Food Futures program.

BARLEYmax is a grain that has been developed through non-genetic means by CSIRO, it has got the highest fibre of any grain that's on the market and it has a very particular type of fibre and that's called resistant starch, which CSIRO scientists and other scientists around the world are now discovering has got enormous benefits for our digestive health.

[Image changes to show the factory production line in action and then zooms in on the completed products]

We asked CSIRO to more or less authenticate the type of products that we were making in terms of the health that we were offering our consumers and they've been able to do that.

[Image changes to the camera panning in on different areas of the factory and then back to Arnold]

The relationship has been a good one with CSIRO. [Image changes to show the muesli bars being moved along another part of the production line and then back to Arnold]

Through the CSIRO brand and their name, which is a very recognised brand in Australia, we believe that it's helped us, our brand enormously, we're a stronger business now and I have had a very good overall relationship with CSIRO and very happy to have worked with them and hopefully we'll continue to work very successfully with them into the future.

[Music plays and CSIRO logo appears with the text: Big ideas start here www.csiro.au]

Welcome to CSIRO's food innovation centre

[Music plays and CSIRO logo and text appears: Welcome to CSIRO’s food innovation centre]

[Images flash through of people selecting food from fridges and shelves in a supermarket]

Narrator: Consumer demand for healthy, convenient, new and safe food products is rising and market growth in the Asian region is booming.

More than ever manufacturing innovation is critical for the Australian food industry to capture these opportunities and be globally competitive.

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At our Food Innovation Centre we work with the food and beverage manufacturing industry to meet these opportunities and add value to their business.

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We help companies innovate by creating next generation value added food products and ingredients, improving operating efficiencies, licensing ready to go technologies, making industry connections and adopting and developing new technologies and applications for safer, fresher, healthier and sustainably produced foods and more.

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In the last few years we’ve helped our clients create hundreds of millions of dollars in new food product and ingredient sales locally and in export markets.

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This includes more than 25 new products in the retail market nationally.

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Companies are invited to use our manufacturing equipment to develop and launch new products into the market or collaborate with us strategically on breakthrough technologies.

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Through our facilities in Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney we have the most significant and extensive food innovation expertise available in Australia.

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Our pilot plants are unique facilities with a mix of conventional and emerging technologies supported by world class science.

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Our expertise in sensory, flavour, consumer science and food choices is unique helping companies develop new or redefine their existing products.  We help industry manage their food safety and product shelf life and meet food safety regulations in export markets.

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We’re also helping Australian food companies meet the rapidly growing demand in Asia for high value products.

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Our researchers help companies reformulate to reduce salt, sugar and fat and develop fortified products with functional health benefits while still meeting the taste preferences of consumers.

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We also work with manufacturers to substantiate food and ingredient health claims with expertise in lab scale analysis through to human nutrition trials.

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Whether you’re a small company with a novel idea or a large one looking to outsource key R and D services companies benefit every day from partnering with CSIRO.

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It all starts with a conversation.

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