Research and Development

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

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Business plans and feasibility studies

  • Technological, organizational, economic feasibility studies, also relating to the circularity of the supply chains
  • Excel simulation with sensitivity analysis
  • Business plan, marketing plan, communication plan

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