1/12/2011 --- Solae, the world leader in soy ingredients, is announcing the opening of a new Asia food application center. The “DuPont Solae Asia Food Application Center” is located within the DuPont China Research & Development Center building in Shanghai, China. The new center will focus on food, beverage, bakery, confectionery and meat products. This is Solae’s fourth major research and development facility to support global business growth. The other facilities are located in North America, Europe and South America.

“We are very excited to open this new food application center in Asia as our similar facilities in other regions of the world have proven highly effective at addressing regional food development needs,” said Torkel Rhenman, CEO -- Solae. “This new facility is part of our long-term commitment to Asia Pacific customers that we will continue expanding our capabilities, delivering more nutritional, functional, economical and sustainable ingredient solutions to this emerging market.”

The center is nearly 300 square meters, housing a food and beverage laboratory, a bakery and confectionery laboratory, a meat laboratory, and a product analysis and sensory science laboratory. It is also equipped with state-of-art facilities and meeting rooms to accommodate requests from customers for training and discussion.

“This center will enable Solae food, meat, and nutrition scientists to focus on Asian food systems,” said Tony Andrew, Asia Pacific senior sales director -- Solae. “Solae provides customers with the advantage of expertise in helping formulate and design products to meet their needs and the end consumers’ needs. In addition to expanding our capabilities in the region, this new center provides another resource for customers to utilize when developing products with soy.”

Solae works with many food and meat manufacturers across Asia on a variety of food segments including: ready-to-drink and powdered beverages, emulsified and whole muscle pork, poultry, and beef processed meats, nutritional bars, infant and adult clinical nutritional foods and soymilk among others. The company currently has three manufacturing plants located in China with a total of 11 worldwide.