Enabler of the food industry

Research Environments

SEAMK Food Labs is a food technology development environment built to serve industrial renewal and practical development work. Our infrastructure is designed to bridge the gap between laboratory-scale research and industrial-scale production.

We offer companies, students, and researchers a unified platform where raw material properties, processing technologies, and final product quality can be examined as a whole.

Strengths in technology and comprehensive food chain expertise

The core of our research environment is strong process technology expertise. We have targeted investments in technologies that are critical for future food production and the utilization of side streams. The operational backbone of SEAMK Food Labs consists of versatile process equipment in both laboratory and pilot scales.

Our infrastructure covers the food chain comprehensively, ranging from primary production test fields and the Agrolab laboratory to industrial processing, and further through chemical and microbiological analysis to sensory evaluation and end-user experience in our teaching restaurant.

Explore the SEAMK Food Labs research environment with a Matterport virtual tour.

SEAMK also holds a nationally exceptional position as an expert in meat technology. We combine traditional knowledge of meat raw materials with the development of new plant proteins and hybrid products . This serves the transformation of the food industry and directly answers the industry’s current competence needs by training future professionals in genuine environments.

A skilled partner for RDI and minimizing investment risks

SEAMK Food Labs is profiled specifically for applied research and agile piloting. When modern facilities and equipment are combined with extensive expertise understanding the entire food chain and a solution-oriented approach, the result is an entity that serves as a reliable and high-impact partner for companies’ development activities.

A key benefit of the environment is reducing investment risk. When a working prototype is produced from a product idea using equipment that corresponds to industry standards, realistic data on the manufacturing process and its scalability is obtained. This gives the company a solid knowledge base for planning industrial-scale investments and helps target resources correctly.

Read more about our laboratories and available equipment through the links below.

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.