CalStarch is Caldic's starch solutions platform, designed to help food manufacturers overcome today's formulation challenges while preparing for tomorrow's opportunities. More than an ingredient, CalStarch combines market insight, technical expertise, and application knowledge to deliver reliable performance from development through to production.
Why " More than starches"?
Food innovation rarely begins with an ingredient. It begins with understanding how consumer expectations are evolving, which market trends are reshaping the food industry, and what challenges manufacturers face every day. As formulations become increasingly complex, manufacturers are challenged to deliver consistent quality, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation while responding to changing consumer demands.
At Caldic, we believe starch should do more than fulfill a technical function. It should contribute to product success by helping manufacturers achieve the performance, consistency, and reliability required throughout the entire production process.
That belief became the foundation of CalStarch.
Understanding customer needs
Every successful solution starts with understanding the challenge behind it.
Before developing a recommendation, we work closely with customers to understand their products, processes, objectives, and market requirements.
We continuously monitor evolving market trends, changing consumer preferences, and emerging formulation needs to ensure our solutions address both today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.
By combining market intelligence with technical expertise, we help food manufacturers identify the right solution for their specific application.
Turning insights into solution
CalStarch was created to bridge the gap between market needs and technical performance.
Our teams work alongside customers throughout the development journey, providing technical guidance and application expertise to help overcome formulation challenges and create successful products.
Our support includes:
- Technical Consultation: Identifying formulation challenges and recommending the most suitable starch solutions.
- Application Development: Supporting recipe development, laboratory testing, performance optimization, and product validation.
- Process Optimization: Helping manufacturers improve process stability, enhance efficiency, and achieve batch-to-batch consistency.
- Ongoing Partnership: Providing continuous support to adapt formulations to changing market needs and customer expectations.
Innovation powered by iHub
Behind CalStarch is Caldic's iHub in Nieuwegein, our innovation and application center where market insights are transformed into practical food solutions.
By combining technical expertise, application development, and close customer collaboration, iHub helps accelerate product development and supports manufacturers in overcoming formulation challenges with confidence.
This innovation-driven approach is an important part of how CalStarch delivers reliable performance from concept through production and throughout the product life, including improved shelf-life stability in demanding conditions such as the cold chain and freeze-thaw cycles.
From market trends to customer value
Consumer expectations continue to reshape the food industry. From healthier formulations and sugar reduction to plant-based innovation and clean label solutions, manufacturers must continuously adapt while maintaining product quality and consumer appeal. CalStarch helps bridge these requirements by translating market trends into functional solutions that create value throughout the product lifecycle.
Key focus areas include:
- Better-for-you formulations
- Sugar reduction
- Clean label opportunities
- Natural ingredient solutions
- Plant-based innovation
- Alternative dairy applications
- Cost optimization
- Sustainable sourcing
- Premium sensory experiences
Where CalStarch creates value
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Bakery
Delivering texture, stability, creaminess, and freeze-thaw performance across a variety of bakery applications. -
Soups, Sauces & Dressings
Supporting viscosity control, process stability, smooth texture, and consistent product performance. -
Dairy
Providing texture enhancement, stability, process resistance, and sensory performance across dairy applications. -
Food Manufacturing
Supporting process efficiency, product consistency, and reliable performance at scale.
Reliable performance starts with knowledge
For more than twenty-five years, Caldic has worked alongside food manufacturers across Europe to solve formulation challenges and improve product performance.
This experience has shaped CalStarch into more than a starch portfolio.
It has become a platform that combines market understanding, technical expertise, and customer collaboration to deliver solutions that perform consistently, batch after batch.
Because successful innovation is never defined by an ingredient alone.
It is defined by the knowledge behind it.
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