Land Use and Circularity
CAFRE can provide the food manufacturing sector with solutions to process new and existing edible crop varieties into innovative and desirable customer goods and products.
As part of the CAFRE College Estate Strategy, Technologists from CAFRE’s food, agriculture and horticulture provision test plants and crops, not traditionally grown in Northern Ireland, which could adapt to this climate and have future market potential. Future plants and crops can be used for ingredients, supplements, and future packaging materials.
CAFRE Technologists are addressing an increasing demand for food manufacturing businesses to be more sustainable, drive down costs, minimise waste and to reduce the overall impact of their business on the environment.
CAFRE aims to provide support and knowledge transfer to businesses to enable them to employ the principles of circularity.
CAFRE will help businesses examine their current processes to manufacture new products from materials once classed as waste or byproducts. Technologists will also assist with opportunities for industrial symbiosis.
Businesses can avail of the Food Innovation and Food Technology Centres for circularity projects including utilising approvals for distillation and co-location (for pet foods).
Start Up and Brew
This programme has been developed to enhance the knowledge of the key stages of craft beer production and have a regard for the associated science used.
Food Facilities
Loughry Campus has a wide range of facilities which are used by students and agri-food businesses.
Key contact:
Claire Heaney
Senior Technologist (Food)
Claire.Heaney@daera-ni.gov.uk