IFF flavors facility opens in Illinois

INTERNATIONAL Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (NYSE:IFF) has chosen Schaumburg, Illinois for a new flavors facility that maintains a culinary center and state-of-the-art application and flavor creation laboratories. This latest investment will serve the food and beverage industry within the greater Chicago area.

“Providing excellent support to our customers that allows for greater collaboration and increased speed-to-market is a priority for us,” said Andreas Fibig, CEO. “As the new office expands our coverage in the region, it simultaneously provides customers with local culinary, applications and flavors expertise along with access to our regional and global resources.”

Matthias Haeni, group president, Flavors, said, “I am pleased that with the opening of this new facility, we can offer our customers a differentiated service model geared towards enhancing collaboration and building greater customer intimacy. This site is centrally located to many key customers in the Midwest region of the United States, and allows us to partner more closely with them to collaboratively build healthier taste solutions that help differentiate their brands.”

The leading creator of flavors and fragrances for consumer products has a manufacturing facility and creative center in Indonesia, and a liquid flavors and fragrances manufacturing facility in Singapore, which are among its most recent large investments.