Overview
Innovation plays a crucial role at the forefront of our transformation journey to become the world’s leading marine health and nutrition company. Our ambition is to offer innovative solutions embracing product, process, and packaging excellence that enhances the health and well-being of our consumers, our pets, our society, and our planet.
Our Innovation Hub in the Netherlands, working closely with the Group Innovation Center (GIC) in Bangkok, strengthens our ability to deliver consumer-focused, market-ready product and packaging solutions across Thai Union.
How We Drive Meaningful Innovation
We develop future-ready technology solutions rooted from business priorities and innovation strategy. Our work starts from translating consumer/customer needs to scalable technology, deliver R&D works from early-stage research and discovery, proprietary technology development, flawless deployment, and launch to markets. Our R&D team have a diversified background with strong competency both technical knowledge and soft skills.
Highly capable experts with rich and broad experience that provide all key expertise supports in sensory, regulatory & scientific affairs, IP, nutrition, and innovation management.
Because great ideas can come from anywhere, we leverage internal and external ideas, knowledge and technologies to bring new innovations to market faster. Leveraging open innovation collaboration not only brings expertise not available within our organization but also access to new business opportunities. Partners, including universities, corporates and startups, are selected through a strategic approach to leverage the strengths of each party to drive a successful collaboration.
Group Innovation leads two programs under SeaChange® 2030: Sustainable Packaging and Health & Wellness. In addition, we strongly embrace and integrate sustainability in every project we do to foster the generation of sustainable health and well-being as well as better quality of life in every possible life stage for both humans and pets.
Leveraging Thai Union's Global R&D Network
Thai Union's growth is supported by a vast R&D network, providing unmatched innovation capabilities across many different sectors.
Group Innovation Center (GIC)
GIC, as a strategic engine for advanced scientific research within the group, spearheads Thai Union's innovation strategy with cutting-edge science and technology capabilities through an unmatched internal and external global R&D network. We enhance innovation speed and our competitive edge through a consumer-centric, end-to-end category approach with seamless collaboration among cross-functional teams. We work closely with our business and operation partners to ensure strategic alignment and flawless execution from ocean to plate.
- R&D Center Douarnenez, France
- Group Innovation Center (GIC), Bangkok, Thailand
- Innovation Hub, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Category-Focused Innovation
Human Food
We create the future of seafood by uniting food science, process innovation, and deep consumer insight. Our teams collaborate across species, formats, and global markets to deliver innovative products that excel in taste, texture, and nutritional superiority. Every innovation is crafted with unwavering commitment to food safety, quality, and environmental stewardship, helping build a healthier, more resilient food system for generations to come.
Pet Food
By combining advanced nutrition and functional-ingredient science, we create food pets love and pet parents can trust. Our teams focus on great taste, balanced nutrition, and consistent performance, so every meal supports your pet’s well-being at every life stage. Every recipe is made to rigorous safety and quality standards, because pets are part of the family.
Packaging
By combining smart materials science, innovative design, and real consumer insight, we develop packaging solutions that are easy to use and better for the environment. Our teams focus on sustainability and performance, so every pack helps reduce environmental impact while protecting product quality, safety, and shelf life. We believe great packaging should make life simpler, keep food fresher, and support a more sustainable future.
Process
Through advanced engineering, applied research, and next-generation technologies, we build smarter, more agile, and more sustainable manufacturing systems. Our teams design end-to-end processing innovations that accelerate product and packaging development, with product quality, safety, and consistency at the core. This work is laying the foundation for manufacturing transformation that is more efficient and reliable, and more resource-aware and future-ready.
Ingredients
We develop functional ingredients through applied science and advanced processing of marine raw materials and co-products. Our teams focus on quality, efficacy, and consistency, transforming responsibly sourced inputs into high-value ingredients for food, pet nutrition, and health applications.