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VKAFF
A pilot plant skid used to bridge bench work and full production
Capabilities

One Building,
No Handovers

Most delay in flavour development is not work. It is waiting: for a sample to ship, for another site to schedule a trial, for a scale-up team who were not in the original conversation. We removed the waiting by keeping every step in one place.

Where Time Goes

The Delay Is in
the Gaps, Not the Work

Count a typical development honestly and the bench work is a small fraction of the calendar. The rest is transit, queueing behind another site's schedule, and re-explaining the brief to whoever picks it up next.

Our creation labs, application kitchens, sensory booths, pilot plant and production floor are in the same Singapore building. A flavourist can adjust a profile, have it made up, taste it in your actual product and put it in front of a panel without any of it leaving the site.

It also means the people who scale it up were in the room when it was created. Nothing has to be reconstructed from a specification written by someone who has moved on.

One site

Creation, application, sensory, pilot and production in one building

Pilot

Pilot-scale trials before committing your production line

Same day

Adjust a profile and taste it back in the finished product

How We Work

Built to Remove
the Waiting

Four things that shorten a project without cutting any of the work that matters.

01

A Brief Taken Once, Properly

We take the target, the process, the pack, the shelf life and the cost envelope at the start, from the people who will actually do the work. Most lost weeks trace back to a constraint that surfaced late because nobody asked at the beginning.

02

Creation and Application in Parallel

The profile is developed against a working prototype of your product from the first iteration, not matched on a blotter and then discovered to fail in the matrix. Problems that would normally appear at week six appear in week one, when they are cheap.

03

Pilot-Scale Before Your Line

Our pilot plant reproduces the thermal and mechanical conditions of full production at a fraction of the volume. Scale-up behaviour is found here, on our equipment and our time, rather than during a trial run on your line.

04

No Handover Between Sites

Creation, application, sensory, pilot and manufacturing are colleagues in one building who can walk a sample to each other. There is no shipping step, no scheduling queue between departments, and no specification handed to a team who were never briefed.

A flavourist and a commercial colleague meeting at the threshold between the lab and office wings
The Path

Brief to First Batch

The same six steps every project runs, with nothing leaving the site between them.

Brief taken with the technical team present
Prototype built in your actual product
Panel assessment against your target
Application trial under your processing conditions
Pilot-scale run before your line commits
First production batch matched to the approved sample
Start a Project

Tell Us the Date
You Need to Hit

Give us the launch window and the constraints, and we will tell you honestly whether it is achievable and what the path looks like. A short answer early is worth more than an optimistic one.