R&D in consumer products

Regulation and sustainability are influencing client and customer outcomes in consumer products alongside product performance and cost expectations. We work on identifying more sustainable ingredients and help our clients reformulate their products by incorporating these.

Consumer facing companies are striving for sustainable packaging amidst complex needs - balancing recyclability, design, and material development, driven by evolving regulations and consumer demands. We help our clients balance these challenges.

The cost, scale, and carbon footprint of manufacturing are under the spotlight. The sector needs to adapt manufacturing processes to foster better agility and environmental sustainability. Using a framework within which to innovate both the core process and the integrated design we enable R&D, engineering and operations to take account of the key external forces.

Sagentia Innovation delivers end-to-end advisory and product development services for the consumer products, food and beverage markets. Sagentia Innovation draws on capabilities across a range of technical and commercial capabilities that see every project viewed through three interconnected lenses – user needs, commercial opportunity, and technical feasibility.

Our work falls into three interlinked categories:

1. Insight and Strategy: R&D strategy deveolopment and organisation; development of techno-commercial roadmaps; horizon scanning and foresighting; value proposition development.

2. Concepting and proof of principle: concept generation and feasibility assessment; consumer and user insight, analytical method development; proof of principle testing.

3. Product and process development: proof of concept development and prototyping; supply chain assessment; value engineering.