Tate & Lyle Opens New Technical Service Facility in Mexico City, Mexico

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Mexico City, Mexico – (May 23, 2013) – Tate & Lyle, a leading global provider of ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage and other industries, today announces the opening of its Technical Service Centre in Mexico City.

This facility is part of Tate & Lyle’s extensive global network of innovation, application and technical service centres that provide application development, rapid prototyping and complete formulation, process and evaluation expertise to help food and beverage customers’ transition more quickly from product conception to market.

“Consumers’ desire for great-tasting, innovative food and beverages is important for the continued growth of our customers,” said Oreste Fieschi, General Manager, Latin America, Tate & Lyle. “Our new facility enhances new opportunities for our applications and technical service experts to provide food and beverage expertise, while collaborating with customers to develop differentiated and reliable solutions to their challenges.”

The new site is conveniently located close to the World Trade Centre, Mexico DF, and offers expertise in the innovative, versatile application of Tate & Lyle’s ingredients that support new product development and line extensions in beverage, bakery and confectionery, convenience, dairy and snack categories.

The new technical service centre applies the latest technology available for sweeteners, wellness ingredients and texturants, including a multi-functional and scale-up high performance colloid mill, a pilot scale convection oven plus a high precision texture analyser, to test the application and behavior of Tate & Lyle’s wide range of products.

Luis Fernandez, VP Global Applications, Tate & Lyle added, “Our new Technical Service Centre is fully connected with Tate & Lyle’s global innovation network and is prepared to help Mexican and Central America’s food and beverage manufacturers undertake new product development. Working on strategic partnership with our customers we can CREATE™, OPTIMIZE™, REBALANCE™ or ENRICH™ foods and beverages”.

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About Tate & Lyle PLC:  

Supported by our 165-year history of ingredient innovation, we partner with customers to provide consumers with healthier and tastier choices when they eat and drink. We are proud that millions of people around the world consume products containing our ingredients and solutions every day.  

Through our leading expertise in sweetening, mouthfeel and fortification, we develop ingredients and solutions which reduce sugar, calories and fat, add fibre and protein, and provide texture and stability to food and drink in categories including beverages, dairy, bakery, snacks, soups, sauces, and dressings.  

Tate & Lyle recently acquired CP Kelco, a leading provider of pectin, speciality gums and other nature-based ingredients to create a leader in mouthfeel, significantly enhancing our solutions capabilities. Following this combination, we now have more than 5,000 employees working in around 75 locations in 39 countries, serving customers in more than 120 countries. Science, Solutions, Society is our brand promise and how we will achieve our purpose of Transforming Lives through the Science of Food. By living our purpose, we believe we can successfully grow our business and have a positive impact on society. We live our purpose in three ways, by supporting healthy living, building thriving communities and caring for our planet.  

Tate & Lyle is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TATE.L. American Depositary Receipts trade under TATYY. For the year ended 31 March 2024, and on a pro forma basis which assumes for illustrative purposes that the combination with CP Kelco took place on 1 April 2023, revenue for the enlarged Tate & Lyle Group would have been £2.25 billion. For more information, please visit www.tateandlyle.com or follow Tate & Lyle on LinkedIn, X (Twitter), Facebook or YouTube