Carnot AgriFood Transition
Agriculture, aquaculture and food processing producers know that they always have to balance between finding new ways of feeding the world’s population and not damaging the environment.
French and European researchers involved in AgriFood Transition are attempting to deliver real answers to these issues and to address the concerns of producers and their customers, and local communities.
Competences
Core business
Key figures
| Permanent staff (full-time equivalent) | 708 |
| including PhD Students | 144 |
| Global budget | 41 M€ |
| Partnership incomes with industry | 10 M€ |
Contact
AgriFood Transition Associated Carnot
Zoopole Développement
2 Rue Jean Rostand
22440 Ploufragan
Marc DANJON
Director
06 07 39 55 47
Cédric DESSAINT
Communication
06 27 62 04 82
Presentation
Technical and Human Resources :
- Engineers, researchers, technicians, librarians ... In total, more than 700 specialists contribute to innovation within private and public companies.
- Their complementary competences and sharing of information means that they can support technical innovation from the raw material to the end product.
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Advanced technical resources are available to address the following 6 themes:
Key Target Markets
- Agriculture, Livestock, Aquaculture
- Food processing, nutrition
- Chemical
- Raw material producers
- Energy
- Environment
- Consumer goods
- Health, pharmacuticals
Our commitments
Some of the technical centers available:
> Plant production
- 1000 m² of regulated greenhouses and climatic chambers for in vitro culture or plant cultivation
> Animal production
- Experimental animal house for monogastric animals (pig, poultry)
> Aquaculture production
- Multi-product marine aquaculture platform (fish, shellfish, algae) at sea or land based
> Transformation agroalimentaire (prototypes et préséries sous agrément sanitaire)
- Découpe, broyage, affinage, cuisson / saurisserie, mélangeage, séchage, autoclave avec 3 modes de stérilisation (statique, rotatif, balancier)
> Food processing (prototypes and small production under sanitary approval)
- Cutting, grinding, refining, cooking / seafood delicatisance products , mixing, drying, autoclave with 3 sterilization modes (static, rotary, balance)
> Biotechnology and extraction
- Chemical or enzymatic hydrolysis reactors (different volumes)
> Characterization of products
- Granulometers (dry and liquid)
- Viscosimeters, rheometers and texturometers
- Robots and molecular marking equipments
An additional network for new fields of innovation
Based in Europe’s largest agricultural and food processing regions in the heart of Brittany and the Pays de la Loire, AgriFood Transition brings together 7 technical centers and 8 public research units. ACT Food Bretagne, ABEA, Chamber of Agriculture, Triballat Noyal, Triskalia, Prince de Bretagne, etc. form the basis of the industrial and professional representatives on the board of management.
AgriFood Transition supports the food chain for the benefit of animal & public health, and the environment.
