APC’s Innovation Kitchen is set up to think like a pet food plant, but with the flexibility of a pilot space. Whether you are working on wet foods, baked recipes, treats or supplements, APC’s Innovation Kitchen offers a place to test ideas, troubleshoot challenges and build confidence before you move toward full scale production. Read more about APC’s North America Innovation Kitchen
Why Work with APC’s Innovation Kitchen (North America)
- Real-world pilot conditions
Test concepts under pet-food–relevant processing conditions to reduce risk before plant trials. - Plasma functional protein expertise
Apply APC’s deep plasma knowledge to improve texture, structure, palatability, and nutritional performance in finished products. - Flexible, collaborative development
Start from your formula or a simple brief and work on-site, remotely, or through a hybrid model using your ingredients, ours, or both. - Actionable R&D outputs
Walk away with clear observations, process insights, and recommendations to support scale-up and commercialization decisions. - Confidential by design
Your formulas, data, and trial results remain yours, with confidentiality and NDAs built into every collaboration.
What You Can Do Here
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Turn plasma science into tested pet food concepts
Explore how plasma based functional proteins perform in real recipes, from early benchtop trials to pilot scale runs, before committing to full production. -
Optimize and validate formulations under real world conditions
Refine ingredient choices, inclusion levels, and processing parameters using equipment and conditions designed to reflect commercial pet food production. -
Pilot pet food formats that matter
Evaluate wet foods such as pâtés, loaf styles, and chunks in gravy or jelly, baked concepts including biscuits, cookies, and crunchy treats, and functional treats, toppers, and supplements.
- Understand texture, structure, and eating experience
Assess how formulation changes impact texture, binding, water holding, structure, handling, filling behavior, and palatability over time. - Compare and replace ingredients with confidence
Test plasma as a binder, texture aid, protein replacement, or flavor support side by side with other ingredients to see clear differences and tradeoffs. - Move from trials to decisions faster
Receive practical documentation, observations, and recommendations to guide reformulation, scale up planning, or next stage plant trials.
Ready to plan your pilot session?
Tell us about your project and we’ll review your request based on pilot-plant availability. Our team will be in touch shortly to discuss feasibility and timing.
Please note: submitting this form does not guarantee a booking. Pilot sessions are scheduled based on scope, fit, and availability.