Transferring Knowledge to the Food & Drink Sector
The Food Technology Centre (FTC) has been established since 1999 and plays a key role in transferring knowledge to the food industry in Wales, across the UK and internationally.
Find out more about us
Training Courses
The Food Technology Centre provides a broad range of training opportunities to support individuals working at all levels within food businesses.
Facilities
The FTC houses three processing halls and test kitchen with each hall averaging a floor space of 85 sqm, dedicated to meat, dairy, fish and horticulture.
Testimonials
Products developed and manufactured at the Food Technology Centre. The centre has carried out numerous projects for local and national companies.
Services
Advice is offered on a wide range of food related subjects including interpreting food legislation, labelling and a host of other regulatory and technical issues
Success Stories
Bwblin
The support from the Food Technology Centre and The HELIX Programme has been brilliant. As a small business owner, without any experience or knowledge in food manufacture, it often feels like I’m figuring everything out on my own.
Smashed Cow Sauces
The HELIX Programme funding was fantastic and allowed me to fast forward my business plans. Their help and advice in setting up HACCP, shelf life analysis and training enabled us to skip the homemade processes and move straight to setting up the business to a standard befitting a small scale modern manufacturing process.
Llanfairpwll Distillery
To supply our co-product as animal feed, we needed to register as a feed business operator and create a HACCP plan. As this regulation was entirely new to me, Susan’s expertise and support in developing the plan and procedures were invaluable in getting us registered.
Halen Môn - Anglesey Sea Salt
We were very pleased with the help and support we received from the Food Technology Centre. There are very rigorous processes to meet to supply the best delicatessens, supermarkets and restaurants not only in the UK but across the world so it is imperative that we have the correct certification.
A Welsh Government funded project that provides technical support to Welsh food and drink manufacturers has delivered over £676 million impact since it launched in 2016.
Fungi Foods founder Gareth Griffith-Swain produced his dried Lion’s Mane mushroom on an industrial scale at the Llangefni centre after winning the C4 show
Gareth Griffith-Swain said the centre had been ‘essential’ to his startup Fungi Foods ahead of his appearance on the Channel 4 Show
Second-year Agriculture students, the food producers of the future, attended dairy and butchery workshops at Grŵp Llandrillo Menai’s Food Technology Centre in Llangefni