Being on the List for 12 Consecutive Years! H&K Flavor Was Rated as the “Enterprise Technology Center of Jiading District” Again

The list for “Enterprise Technology Center of Jiading District” in 2021 has been announced. H&K Flavor was included in the list again. The company has been awarded the honor for 12 consecutive years. After the review of enterprise application materials, the expert review, the comprehensive evaluation and other links, the Economic Committee of Jiading District  discussed and considered that H&K Flavor had achieved remarkable performance in technological innovation, had strong technological innovation ability and high investment in R&D, possessed strong advantages in innovative talents, and owned independent intellectual property rights and complete intellectual property creation, application, management and protection systems, so that they decided to award this honor to H&K Flavor again.

Shanghai H&K Flavors & Fragrances Co., Ltd. (H&K Flavor) has been committed to technology R&D for many year, and has reached advanced level in the industry in terms of research in bio-enzyme, genetic engineering technology, supercritical liquid extraction technology, natural flavors precise separation and purification technology and more. A number of its high and new technologies have been commercialized, and its products have been widely used in the food and beverage industry. The company has an independent R&D center and a strict R&D management system. The R&D center adopts the general manager responsibility system and focuses on independent R&D to build the company’s technology innovation system. The company integrates design, R&D, trial production, trial operation, trial promotion, and has formed an integrated, multidimensional and fine service model (from macro to micro, from comprehensive to special) to meet various needs of customers.

The company relies on the Group’s “Nationally Recognized Enterprise Technology Center” and “Post-doctoral Scientific Research Workstation” to achieve scientific research resources sharing. The company has a number of world-class scientific research equipment, such as supercritical extraction, automatic Maillard reaction, high-speed refrigerated centrifugation, PCR amplifier, ELIASA, gel imaging system, spray drying, freeze drying, GC-MS, instant sterilization system and other high-end and precise instruments, which provide a strong guarantee for flavor research.

Every year, H&K Flavor would publish a batch of new and high-tech achievements and commercialize a batch of new and high-tech achievements; and the sales of high-tech products account for more than 75% of the company’s total sales. More than 5 patents are applied every year. The company has completed 15 scientific and technological achievements in the past 10 years, and all of them have been commercialized.

H&K Flavor has been rated as the Enterprise Technology Center of Jiading District for 12 consecutive years, which is a further recognition of its R&D investment, technological innovation, intellectual property rights application, achievement transformation, enterprise management, operation benefits and other aspects. In the future, the company will continue to play the leading role of fundamental research in the flavor industry, and strengthen the operation philosophy of “customer first, value creation, shared achievements”, increase sci-tech investment and technological innovation to promote the upgrading of product and technology, consolidate the leading position of products in the domestic market, and further expand the domestic market. It will focus on new market opportunities in the development of new technologies, exploit products and related technologies suitable for multi-level market demand, form a series of products, and provide customers with better and diversified services.