IFP Inc. (Innovative Food Processors)

Whether you’re looking for turnkey concept-to-retail capabilities to develop a new functional food, beverage, or dietary supplement, or simply needing to improve your existing product’s performance, IFP’s history of innovative solutions and customer support delivers the best results in the development and delivery of your powder product.

As a leader in the rapidly growing powder beverage, food, and dietary supplement market, we use cutting edge R&D, processing, and packaging technologies.  Our multi-functional core competencies take you through the product development, pilot plant and scale up stages coupled with needed regulatory support.  We have strong communication through these three phases of commercialization guaranteeing brand impact and functionality of your powder systems.

IFP takes pride in 30+ years of collaboration and partnership with leading global food, dietary supplement, sports nutrition, and medical food companies.  Our two manufacturing plants are located in Faribault and Hayfield, Minnesota and offer a one-stop solution for your powder product needs. With a manufacturing site of more than 150,000 square feet, we're equipped to produce the highest quality powders using the most advanced powder processing technology available. We are recognized for our customized product and process development capability, quality systems, and comprehensive manufacturing capacity. This approach makes it a one-stop shop from innovation through the execution stages of food and nutrition powder products. We strive to deliver the perfect powder product.

Major Markets Served:

·        Functional Beverages

·        Fortified Foods

·        Meal Supplements

·        Sports Nutrition

·        Medical Foods

We offer:

Product Development

·        Formulation | Application Support | Regulatory

·        Finished Product Prototyping

Process Development

·        Bench Top | Process R&D

Manufacturing

·        Agglomeration | Encapsulation

(controlled release, dosing, flow control, ingredient isolation, instantizing)

·        Versatile Packaging Technologies

(jugs, jars, stickpackets, pouches)

PrimeCAP® Encapsulated Ingredients

• ·        Standard Ingredients | Custom Solutions

Instantized Ingredients

Insta-Rice for sweetener and probiotics

Instantized BCAA's

Core Competencies:

Agglomeration:   Simple blends of dry ingredients can’t match the rapid dispersion into solution achieved by the use of batch fluid bed agglomerations.  To achieve powder uniformity, improve product dispersion or flow, arrive at precise dosing or reduce product dusting, look to IFP’s world class agglomeration services. Utilizing its fluid-bed technology IFP also provides coating and granulation services.

PrimeCAP® Encapsulation: IFP’s patented encapsulation technology produces a high performance coating system comprising of multiple coat layers over the core particle’s surface.  Our encapsulates are tailored for use in your specific product.  Whether for flavor masking, enhanced shelf stability, or ingredient isolation , let us know your specific needs and we’ll create an ingredient that consistently performs to the survival and release profile your system demands.

Quality Assurance Systems

IFP employs a quality management system and HACCP.  We have a validated allergen program, are kosher and are QAI organic certified. SQF 2000 level III.  NSF certified cGMP for dietary supplements.

Specialized Services:

Custom formulation and manufacturing of functional beverages, sports/nutrition supplements and medical foods containing high value ingredients such as fibers and prebiotics, anti-oxidants,  probiotics, proteins,  natural high intensity sweeteners, vitamins, minerals and amino acids.

For more information on IFP, please feel free to visit us at:  www.ifpinc.bizor call 800.997.4437.