Nestlé opens centre for culinary research

GERMANY РNestlĩ has opened a new centre for culinary research in Singen, Germany.

The €22 million Product Technology Centre (PTC) employs 150 staff and will focus its research on condiments, soups, sauces and mayonnaise, as well as chilled and frozen products like ready meals.

The Singen site is one of nine similar Nestle PTCs, each of which are dedicated to a particular product group. The key purpose of the plants is to take the basic scientific knowledge developed at Nestle’s research centre and use it to make products for mass manufacture.

The activities of the former Nestle R&D centre in Weiding have bee integrated into the new PTC Singen.