Flavourtech
- Type
- Technology Company
- Location
- Griffith, Australia
- Industries
- New food processing techniques, Food ingredients & products, Food reformulation, Food safety & quality
- Domains
- Ingredients, Aromas, Flavours, Processed food products, Coffee & tea, Dairy products, Fruits & vegetable products, Beverages
- Technologies
- Extraction, Process automation, Processing, Robotics & Automation, Platform technology, Platform & Service technologies
About Flavourtech
Flavourtech is an Australian-headquartered global technology manufacturer established in 1987. It specialises in aroma recovery, extraction and evaporation solutions for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries, serving customers in more than 60 countries through a network of offices, distributors and agents.
The company began with a goal of solving a winemaking problem, and its technologies have since been applied across coffee, tea, dairy, fruit and vegetables, alcoholic beverages, nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals. Flavourtech positions itself as a provider of gentle, high-quality processing solutions that help manufacturers preserve natural aroma, flavour, colour and active ingredients while improving efficiency and product differentiation.
Core Values
- Innovation: Flavourtech emphasises continuous development of new technologies and customer-specific solutions, supported by R&D collaboration with universities and research organisations.
- Quality: The company focuses on preserving natural product characteristics and delivering consistent, high-quality outputs with minimal thermal damage.
- Client service: Flavourtech highlights strong technical support, pilot plant trials, after-sales service and global customer assistance as part of its offering.
- Efficiency: Its systems are designed to improve throughput, reduce labour, lower downtime and support continuous processing with compact footprints.
- Sustainability and gentle processing: By using low temperatures, short residence times and continuous systems, Flavourtech aims to reduce waste, protect product integrity and improve processing efficiency.
Unique Aspects
- Origin in winemaking innovation: The company’s SCC was originally developed to remove sulphur from grape juice and later proved effective for alcohol removal and aroma recovery, forming the basis of its broader technology platform.
- Global pilot plant network: Flavourtech operates pilot plant facilities in Griffith (Australia), Wageningen (Netherlands) and Kansas (USA), allowing customers to validate and optimise processes under real-world conditions.
- International reach: The company exports to more than 60 countries and supports customers through a global network of offices, distributors and agents.
- European expansion in Foodvalley NL: Flavourtech established a presence at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands and has been relocating into a new pilot plant facility there to support closer collaboration with European customers.
- Long-standing customer deployments: The dossier notes more than 120 SCC units in the global coffee industry, and KNOWN NEWS indicates the technology has also been adopted in multiple regions for RTD beverages and wine applications.