AINIA is a technology centre with more than 25 years of experience that works to promote the competitiveness of companies through innovation. We work mainly for companies in the food sector but our technologies can also be applied to other sectors such as:
• Environment and Energy
• Packaging
• Chemical products, cleaning and disinfection
• Cosmetics and body care
• Pharmaceutics and biomedicine

Our priority lines are: Food & Health, Food quality and safety, Design and industrial Production, Sustainability and Consumer.

Technologies and own Know How in:
• Food Technology
• ICT and Electronic Technologies
• Environmental and Energetic Technologies
• Chemical Technologies
• Packaging Technologies
• Biotechnology
• Nanotechnology

With 13,000 m2 of facilities, AINIA has 10 pilot plants, 8 laboratories, 10 classrooms and training rooms, a centre for analysis of consumer behavior through sensory analysis (consumolab) and a high-tech industrial plant to provide a wide range of services based on supercritical CO2 extraction.

With a highly qualified team (over 70% of the staff are university graduates and PhD), multidisciplinarity, confidentiality and flexibility to develop customized solutions tailored to the needs of each client are different elements of AINIA as part of its corporate culture.

AINIA offers solutions covering the entire typology of innovation needs of small, medium and large companies:

R&D&I
• Product formulations: development, improvement, etc.
• Ingredients and raw materials: identification, validation, etc.
• Food, health: functionality of active ingredients, cell lines, bioavailability, nutritional improvement, etc.
• Security, authenticity and control: products, raw materials, processes.
• Hygiene and hygienic design: equipment, facilities, processes.
• Packaging: design, materials, packaging systems, package-product interaction.
• Industrial process automation
• ICT applications to industrial and management processes
• Pre-normative research
• Sustainability: use of by-products and waste, biogas, carbon footprint, water footprint, etc.

Consulting and Management support
• Food legislation
• Food Safety
• Consumer studies
• Food Alerts
• Specialized and In company training
• Energy audits
• ICT solutions:
• R&D&I plans
• Implementation of quality and security systems: BRC, IFS, ISO, Food Alert.

Analysis, laboratories, control
• Ingredients: composition, authenticity, functionality
• Pollutants
• Additives
• Allergens, gluten, etc.
• Pesticide residues, drug residues, etc.
• Microbiological hazard identification
• Microbiological shelf life
• Sensory shelf life
• Materials: migration, package-product interaction
• Water, cleaning and hygiene: processing equipment
• 24-hour alerts’ service
• Highly specific analytical tests
• Development of new analytical methods

Industrial processes
• BIOPROCESS: microorganisms: obtaining, selecting, characterising. Bio-products, industrial-scaled io-production process.
• SCF TOLL MANUFACTURING: Extractive applications for the food industry: fats, oils, natural colouring, flavours, active ingredients, removal of pesticides, impurities, etc. Non-extractive applications: materials processing, decontamination, encapsulation. Obtaining nutraceuticals and dietary supplements.
• SUPPORT FOR INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES: General production processes: design, validation, efficiency. Chemical imaging for product control. Hygienic equipment and installations design. Eco-packaging design. SCF, Biogas, Ozone industrial plants: design, validation and efficiency improvement.
• Industrial-scaled. Studies on cost of implementing new technologies.