College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) Loughry Campus

Loughry offers key expertise in food manufacture, safety, packaging, innovation and waste minimisation and aims to enable food businesses to build their capacity to innovate and exploit appropriate technology.

Technology Services Include:

  • Technology Information and Advice
  • Food Safety and Quality Systems
  • Product Innovation
  • Technical Problem Solving
  • Factory Layout/Design
  • Competence Development
  • Process Development
  • Customer Workshops Regional Food Development
  • Process Optimisation
  • Packaging Technology
  • Benchmarking/Auditing
  • Food Business Incubation
  • Process Optimisation

Facilities:

  • The Food Technology Centre offers a comprehensive range of food processing equipment and a product innovation unit to assist businesses develop new concepts and test new processes for today's global market place.

  • The Food Business Incubation Centre (www.loughrycollege.info/fbic) aims to nuture entrepreneurship and promote enterprise in food. It provides eight small factories and a supportive environment in which new and existing businesses can commercialise their business ideas.

  • The Packaging Centre is an ISO 9002 accredited facility providing a state of the art resource for evaluating packaging materials and distribution packaging systems. The Packaging Centre is equipped with advanced, high tech testing equipment, allowing the evaluation of a wide range of material properties important to technologists in the food and packaging industries.