The Agro-Industry Innovation Network Competence Centre has offices in the San Daniele Industrial Zone (Foodstuffs), AREA’s partner in the development of this activity, and in the Town Hall of the Municipality of Ruda (Udine), whose administrators support the initiative in collaboration with the Association for Development and Innovation in the Lower Eastern Part of the Friuli area.

The Centre provides assistance and services to all businesses in the agro-industrial sector in:
 
-     developing new products and processes
-     prolonging the shelf-life of foodstuffs
-     optimizing existing production processes
-     improving the quality of foodstuffs
 
The Centre can count on the scientific support provided by the Department of Food Science of the University of Udine and by SSICA – the Food Preserving Industry Experimentation Centre in Parma.
 
Some of the topics dealt with:
 
-     Purification systems for corks
-     Systems for extracting grape-juice in the vineyard
-     Innovative systems for the heating and cooking of food products
-     Recycling and use of waste and by-products from the food industry
-     Effects of electrostatic charges in the containers used for wine production
-     Prolonging the shelf-life of bakery products
-     Treatment of fruit juice to make it safer for consumption and improve its organoleptic attributes
 
For more details on innovations
 

For further information contact:

CENTRO DI COMPETENZA AGRO-INDUSTRIA

Ms Elena Elisa Castellarin
Ms Alessandra Fenaroli

c/o Distretto Industriale dell’Alimentare
via Garibaldi 23 – 33038 San Daniele (UD) Italy
tel. +39 0432 943756

c/o Comune di Ruda
via Mosettig 10 – 33.50 Ruda (UD) Italy
tel. +39 0431 973870