Dairy in META
Tailor-made ingredient blends for innovative Dairy products
As every region has its own unique taste, texture and pricing needs, INFUSE by Cargill™ is expanding its footprint into the Middle East, Turkey, Africa and India.
Thanks to Cargill’s more than 40 years of texturizing ingredient blends expertise, INFUSE by Cargill™ is now ready to offer tailor-made solutions that will help dairy manufacturers speed up development and launch innovative products faster to META market as well.
“Consumers in META and India are looking for dairy products in line with their cultural taste preferences, developed over centuries”, says Çağatay Taşkın, Cargill META and India INFUSE Business Manager. “This region has a dynamic and unique dairy market that differs from any other region. With the opening of our dairy application centre in Turkey, we can support dairy manufacturers in META to speed up their product development by using tailor-made ingredient blends”, he adds.
META R&D Innovation Centre in the Spotlight
With the opening of our multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art Innovation Centre in Turkey, we are perfectly equipped to meet our customers’ needs in META.
Our team of experts specialize in an array of dairy products such as; cheeses, desserts, creams, dairy drinks, fermented products
and plant-based dairy alternatives. Thanks to the advanced laboratory and pilot-scale facilities, even the most challenging dairy recipes can be produced on site.
Manufacturers can use the Centre as an extension of their R&D capabilities, working with their own raw materials, recipes, and processes and developing tailor-made recipes cost-efficiently. With Cargill’s extensive portfolio of more than 300 ingredients, our experts can quickly develop, deliver and optimize prototypes, dramatically shortening bench development time. One single solution can help dairy manufacturers speed up development and launch innovative products faster to market in the region.
Canan Eskikapusuz, Functional Systems and Solutions Development Manager
“A food scientist with more than 15 years of R&D and customer-facing experience, Canan joined Cargill in 2017 as Technical Product Manager in Texturizers and is based in Turkey. Canan focuses primarily on the Dairy category and is tasked to enhance Cargill’s footprint in the META region, in particular around our Texturizers offering.
In 2019, Canan led the feasibility study and subsequent investment project for the INFUSE by Cargill™ Application Centre in Turkey. After 2 years of intensive work, the Dairy Pilot Plant is now ready to serve customers in the META region, with an ambitious team and extensive on-site capabilities.
In her current role, Canan leads the applications team and supports technical sales teams in the region on a variety of customer projects.
She is passionate about customer relations and helping to deliver tailor-made solutions by using her broad knowledge of ingredients, recipes, and processes.”