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Arla Innovation Centre
Arla Innovation Centre is the dairy cooperative's global hub for developing new products, a roughly 10,000 m² building in Agro Food Park on the northern edge of Aarhus, in the middle of Denmark's food cluster. It brought Arla's research teams from Brabrand together with product development and marketing colleagues, about 150 specialists from around the world working on 30 to 50 innovation projects at any one time. The building is two volumes that meet. A concrete block holds the pilot dairy, a modular plant of small-scale versions of the equipment used in Arla's dairies, where the team can make prototypes of anything from cheese and fresh milk to yoghurt and fermented products, and swap in new equipment when a project needs it. Wrapped around it is a larger copper-clad building with laboratories, sensory panels, the Consumer House for testing ideas with shoppers, a Customer Collaboration Lab where retailers and food service customers develop products alongside Arla, and offices. Inside there are no fixed desks: a bright atrium with stepped seating, project rooms, focus rooms, quiet zones, work lounges and a library are laid out for activity-based working, with a public zone, a staff zone and a clean hygiene zone for the labs. Built to Denmark's Building Class 2020 low-energy standard, the centre is designed as carbon neutral outside the process areas, with 525 m² of solar cells on the roof, water-saving fittings throughout and external zip screens on the largest east, west and south windows to keep cooling loads down. Arla's board approved the DKK 270 million investment in 2013, ground was broken in October 2014, and Crown Princess Mary officially opened the centre on 16 May 2017.
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