Teagasc sees Cork as food hub

Teagasc plans to establish a ‘Food Innovation Hub’, built on the concept of the Wageningen Food Valley in the Netherlands, but applied to the food industry in and around Cork.

The Food Hub would encompass pilot plant facilities (in the form of a futuristic Moorepark Technology Ltd), together with 20 newly-built customer application units which would be private “carded spaces” to be occupied by industry.

Each of these units would contain office and laboratory space, so that each industry client could conduct new product development within their own “Embassy”.