Gold Coast Ingredients opens SMART Center
Gold Coast Ingredients has announced the opening of its new SMART Center in Santa Fe Springs, Calif.
Gold Coast Ingredients has announced the opening of its new SMART Center in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. The center places the company’s Sales, Marketing, Applications, Research, and Technology (SMART) together under one roof to maximize its creative efforts.
With more than 10 new laboratories, the SMART Center focuses on developing custom flavors and colors, as well as extracts, flavor modifiers, and ingredient enhancers. It has independent laboratories for sweet and savory flavors, natural colors, flavor modifiers, as well as a separate analytical lab. In addition, the SMART Center has a commercial-style kitchen and a full laboratory dedicated to application development and testing. The commercial kitchen is designed for development work with hot products (baked goods, confectionery, sauces, fillings, etc.) and the lab is set up for cold products (beverages, ice cream, frozen treats, etc.).
Gold Coast will still maintain its corporate offices, manufacturing, customer support, regulatory, quality control, and purchasing departments at its Commerce, Calif. facility.