SPG Innovation
- Type
- Professional Service Provider
- Location
- Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Industries
- Food ingredients & products, Alternative proteins, Food reformulation, New food processing techniques
- Domains
- Ingredients, Proteins
- Technologies
- Extrusion, Processing, Platform technology, Platform & Service technologies, Analytical measurement, Measurement & sensing
About SPG Innovation
SPG Innovation is a UK-based independent food science and innovation consultancy. It supports brands, ingredient suppliers, manufacturers and start-ups with food product development, ingredient testing, formulation, regulatory readiness and scale-up support.
The company positions itself as an evidence-led partner for turning early concepts into commercially viable products. Its work spans nutrition, ingredients and food products, with a strong emphasis on technical viability, sustainability and reducing development risk from concept through to market launch.
Core Values
- Evidence-led decision-making: Recommendations are grounded in food science rather than supplier sales targets, with an emphasis on reducing technical risk and improving decision quality.
- Technical viability: The consultancy focuses on making products work in practice, not just in theory, so ideas can move from concept to commercial readiness.
- Sustainability: SPG Innovation highlights sustainable product development and works on projects aimed at more sustainable ingredients and food products.
- Practical collaboration: The team combines consultancy with hands-on development in a real food-grade facility, enabling prototyping, trials and problem-solving in one place.
Unique Aspects
- Independent consultancy model: SPG Innovation says it is not tied to any single ingredient supplier or manufacturer, allowing advice to be driven by food science rather than commercial bias.
- Food-grade development facility in Nottingham: The company operates from a real lab and development facility at Nottingham Science and Technology Park, where it can prototype and trial products.
- End-to-end support: It offers a full development pipeline covering concept, formulation, regulatory work, scale-up and funding support, reducing the need to coordinate multiple suppliers.
- Pilot-scale extrusion capability: Its facility includes compression popping and extrusion technology for snacks, cereals and TVPs, giving it hands-on scale-up and manufacturing support.
- Experience with funded innovation projects: The website cites work backed by Innovate UK funding and collaborations with organisations such as the University of Leeds, Baker Perkins and Grow with Iris.