Tecnnology and Innovation

Technical Development, knowledge and creativity is the fuel that powers our company. Our business is about providing customised solutions for our customer's applications.

Kerry Aptunion has a technical centre with 4 core areas of technical expertise based at Apt. Each of our application laboratories is equipped with state of the art equipment for the technologies we develop. Our technical centres for candied fruit, fruit preparations, fillings and nuggets each have a specialised team of technologists to develop innovative ingredients for our key partners.

Kerry Aptunion also has technical centres for application specific fruit ingredients in Tenbury Wells, UK and Kielce, Poland.

In addition to our technologists, we have a team of marketers that track new flavours and consumer product development to help the application team keep apace with the changing demands of customers and markets. We are always actively on the look out for new trends and ideas, which we combine with experiences from the past. Innovations are not just as the result of a creative brainstorm, but also the result of a structure innovation process, market trend tracking, understanding of consumer applications and development work.

Kerry Aptunion also has a team of experienced process technicians on hand for our customers. These process technicians will help adapt our process line standards and equipment to ensure we satisfy high product quality standards and complex product solutions

Along with our core competence in candying, fruit preparations and processed dried fruit, Kerry Aptunion benefits from the global network of food ingredient expertise coming from the Kerry Group.