To strengthen the innovation power Cosun decided to build the Cosun innovation center. The Cosun innovation center is part of ... Royal Cosun. Royal Cosun is an agro-industrial cooperative with five business groups in the agro-and food sector. They manufacture ingredients for food, non-food applications and the chemical industry. The Cosun innovation center has been designed to provide researchers and developers all the necessary facilities and stimulate researchers to collaborate and exchange knowledge. This way they can meet in person and work side by side. By using each other’s knowledge and experience we can expand the innovative effort and make a valuable contribution to the mission of Royal Cosun ‘ Creating value from crops’. Cosun innovation center is situated in Nieuw Prinsenland, agrofood cluster near Dinteloord in the West-Brabant region (between Rotterdam and Breda). The Cosun innovation center offers flexible workstations for over one hundred R&D professionals and hospitality to colleagues from all the business groups of Royal Cosun. It houses the activities of Cosun R&D, Cosun Innovation, Cosun Biobased Products and the IRS (knowledge institute for optimization of beet cultivation in the Netherlands). The innovation center has various laboratories, (analysis, microbiology, product development and non-food) a fully equipped room for sensory research, 12 meeting rooms and in-house pilot plant. This pilot plant enables testing and production at a larger scale. read more