Our Fringford Innovation Centre

Fringford Innovation Centre based in heart of the countryside near Bicester, Oxfordshire is the Puratos UK hub for innovation and NPD for both Puratos and Puratos customers.

Dating back to the Domesday book was originally a working Mill. 

Fringford opened its doors in 1984 as a customer innovation centre  and has been a customer favourite ever since.

2016 saw a €1.5 million investment as an important step in demonstrating our commitment for our customers to enhance their business by introducing a new Industrial Bakery Competence Centre (IBCC) in Fringford, focusing on the research of bakery industrial processes, the development of industrial applications and the training of new and existing customers.

The IBCC, which complements Puratos’ existing patisserie & chocolate innovation capabilities, will help customers to reduce product development time thanks to its new industry standard equipment situated in a laboratory environment that enables safe and easy testing of new ingredients and recipes.

Specific capabilities at the Fringford Innovation Centre include:

• Rapid testing and development of bakery solutions tailored to the challenges of large-scale manufacture
• Development of applications and training in patisserie – from concept to finish goods
• Technical, taste and production expertise in chocolate in patisserie
• Sensory analysis - consumer testing to validate new products and applications in bakery, patisserie and chocolate
• Specialist pilot equipment providing a realistic production environment to test new products and trial production