Welcome to SeAMK Food Labs website!

SeAMK Food Labs is a trailblazer in the food region, serving as a platform for education, research, and pilot projects in food production development. It encompasses laboratory environments for all areas of expertise within the food chain, all under one roof at SeAMK’s Seinäjoki campus. Join us on a journey towards more sustainable food production for tomorrow.

Do you have an idea for an innovation in the food industry?

In collaboration with SeAMK, it is possible to implement your idea into reality into a product. Our expertise covers the entire food chain of the food industry from cultivation to finished product or service concepts. Along the food chain, we can offer services customized to your needs. The assignments are possible to execute with the RDI staff of SeAMK or as a student work. It is possible to include assignments in the comprehensive range of study modules. Our product development and technology expertise is strongly research-based with decades of experience.

Interested in collaboration or you would like to discuss more about possibilities with SeAMK Food Labs?

Here are examples of our services:

• cultivation experiments, soil measurements and tests
• product idea development and conceptualization
• preparation of raw materials and formulation of recipes
• structure measurement and imaging services
• piloting manufacturing processes
• profitability calculations and factory planning
• preservation testing and food safety
• experimental kitchen and usability testing
• customer tastings and sensorial analysis
• product life cycle assessment

Contact us by email: foodlabs(a)seamk.fi or fill contact form here.

Potential benefits for food industry companies

From an idea of an innovation to developing a new product for the food industry demands expensive in pilot scale equipment. In collaboration with SeAMK Food Labs piloting a new idea to reality on a small scale with industry-equivalent equipment without own major investments

Qualitative analytics services – understand the current state of your product or raw material under development. By researching measurement values and comparing them to information found in literature, you can determine how to reach the next level in product development. Our experts can assist in interpreting these measurement values to support your design work or in other development-related problem-solving according to your needs.

We are a reliable and enabling partner. We offer support and complementary skills according to your needs, so that your company’s risks are minimized when investing in the new for growth. Feel free to contact our experts and let’s start the journey towards success together!

This website has been produced as part of the Future Frami Food Lab development project.

Future Frami Food Lab is an ERDF-funded project. The main objective of the project is to increase the role of South Ostrobothnia as a food region and as a leading expert in food technology and processes in Finland and as an internationally significant actor. The project also strengthens SeAMK Food Labs’ role as a testing platform for food technologies and processes and as an identified competence cluster in the field.