Open Fields’s contribution
to projects
New products, recipes, ingredients, raw materials, nutritional labels
Technology
- Identification of ingredients
- Lab-wide recipe definition and testing
- Nutritional characterization and nutritional label
- Prototyping
- Design and test of production scale-up at industrial production level (identification of technologies, supplier scouting, support for line design …)
- Support for product and process LCA measurement, verification of the possibility of attainment of carbon and sustainability credits
Supply chain
- Scouting of suppliers
- Support for the definition of product specifications for contracts
Marketing e business planning
- Market and feasibility analyses, business plan
- Definition of the concept
- Concept test
- Product test, also with sensory analysis
- Support to value proposition design and communication strategy
Improvement of existing products
Gap analysis
Definition of the objectives to be pursued in terms of: nutritional, organoleptic, recipe, efficiency of the production process (yields, co-products, management of the production cycle), relating to carbon and water footprint…)
Technology
- Identification of ingredients
- Lab-wide recipe definition and testing
- Nutritional characterization and nutritional label
- Prototyping
- Design and test of production scale-up at industrial production level (identification of technologies, supplier scouting, support for line design …)
- Support for product and process LCA measurement, verification of the possibility of attainment of carbon and sustainability credits
Supply chain
- Scouting of suppliers
- Support for the definition of product specifications for contracts
Technology transfer. Support for the identification of new technologies
- Gap analysis: definition of the objectives to be pursued
- Verification and examination (cost-benefit) of existing opportunities
- Feasibility study
- Scouting of suppliers
- Support to implementation and testing
Guide to the selection of the best innovative technologies
Benefit
Carbon negative energy producing technology
Industrialization level
Available immediately
Origin
Italy
Benefit
It is possible to cultivate under photovoltaic panels
Industrialization level
Available immediately
Origin
Italy
Benefit
Poor quality wheat grains can be removed from large commercial batches of wheat
Industrialization level
Available immediately
Origin
Europe
Benefit
The main growth parameters of a tree and of a crop are measured in real time with an estimate of carbon absorption
Industrialization level
Advanced Pilot
Origin
Italy
Benefit
Facilitate the agronomic management of crops
Industrialization level
Available immediately
Origin
Europe
Benefit
They partially replace fertilizers of chemical origin
Industrialization level
Available immediately
Origin
Europe
Benefit
It guarantees the physical traceability of a batch of wheat from the harvest to the arrival at the mill
Industrialization level
Advanced Pilot
Origin
In house
Agronomic experimentation
Purpose
- Improvement of supply chains starting from the agricultural phase
- Pursuit of sustainability objectives
- Varietal selection
- Selection of agronomic techniques suitable for company objectives, in organic and / or conventional agriculture
- Test of new technologies (Agriculture 4.0), use of DSS (Decision Support Systems), with friendly solutions for reading, interpreting and using data
- Efficient and sustainable management of waste biomass
The possible contributions of Open Fields and Azienda Agraria Sperimentale Stuard
- Experimentation both in the context of regional, national, European, international funded projects, and in the context of private projects covered by confidentiality
- Activation of the Open Fields – Azienda Stuard team
- Implementation of the experimental activity, with data collection and analysis and related reporting
- Definition of the objectives of the experimentation, to be developed at the fields of Azienda Stuard or at fields selected by the client
- Definition of the Experimentation Plan jointly with the client’s team