INSTITUTE OF DAIRY INDUSTRY INNOVATION
Research and Development Centre
Acting out of concern for increasingly higher quality of its products and adapting them to the growing expectations of consumers, the Institute of Dairy Industry Innovation started its operation in February 2010 in Mragowo. Affiliated to SM MLEKPOL, it is the first facility of this type in the food industry in Poland. In the same year, there was established the Scientific Council of the Institute of Dairy Industry Innovation, consisting of 10 eminent representatives of Polish science and industry. The Council includes, inter alia, 8 professors, whose 2 are the members of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Among the Institute’s employees there are also 5 titular professors and 5 doctors.
In 2015 the Institute was granted the status of the Research and Development Centre awarded by the Minister of Development. It is equipped with the latest research facilities that allow for performing works according to the highest global standards.
The Institute focuses its activities on three areas:
The Institute carries out microbiological, physico-chemical, rheological, biochemical and other analyses in the widest scope in Poland. By having a modern pilot plant, it also offers services for dairy production establishments. The Institute is run by an eminent specialist in the dairy industry – prof. dr hab. Andrzej Babuchowski.
Innovations are necessary. We work keeping in mind the needs and wellbeing of consumers.
We are currently noticing a great interest in healthy and functional food.
This means that even existing products must be changed so that they are healthier, more functional, but just as tasty as always. Current consumer trends open the possibility for the development of new products – says prof. dr hab. Andrzej Babuchowski.
Andrzej Babuchowski – professor, academic lecturer, president of the Institute of Dairy Industry Innovation in Mragowo. From January to November 2016 a member of the task force group on agricultural markets of the European Commission. Former director of FAPA, vice-chairman of ARiMR, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, former Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland in the Special Committee on Agriculture of the EU Council in Brussels, Head of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries in the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the EU in Brussels, former representative of the Republic of Poland in COREPER I at the European Council in Brussels, former member of the FIL/IDF Coordination Committee for Science and Programming. A graduate of the University of Agriculture in Olsztyn.
The Institute of dairy Industry Innovation is a private entity whose founder and owner is Spółdzielnia Mleczarska Mlekpol in Grajewo.
The Institute’s branch in Grajewo started its activity in January 2018.
Its new location in Grajewo houses the Environmental Research Laboratory, which until that time operated in Mragowo. Subsequently, it is planned that the Non-Food Research Laboratory, the Microbiological Research Laboratory and the Packaging Research Laboratory will begin their operations in the future.
