Comax Flavors announced the completion of the Dr. Peter J. Calabretta Center for Innovation in Marlton, N.J., which soft opened July 25, 2018. The new Center for Innovation comprises 3,600 square feet and features state-of-the-art application and flavor labs as well as customer conference and tasting rooms.

“Our new center is an area for creative inspiration designed to assist our customers with the proactive development of innovative ideas, flavors and products and help grow their success in an ever-changing and competitive market,” said Michael E. Crain, senior flavor chemist for Comax Flavors, in a statement. The new facility will allow Comax to work more closely with the company’s customer base to provide new and innovative product concepts and flavors, enable ideation, creation and rapid prototyping, aid in customer problem-solving and proactively support Comax’s creative flavor and application capabilities with the R&D teams, it says.