A product developer judges an ingredient by what it does in their formulation, on their line, under their label.
We build food ingredients and manufacturing websites that connect the portfolio to applications, specifications, allergen and certification status, traceability documentation and the technical people behind it.
Texture, taste, colour, nutrition, shelf life, process stability, cost in use and what the label will have to say all shape the decision. We organise content around applications and formulation challenges, from bakery and dairy to beverages, confectionery, plant-based and savoury, so a developer working on a specific product finds the ingredients and the technical guidance that apply to it, rather than browsing a portfolio arranged around your internal business units.
Before performance is considered, a developer checks whether an ingredient can be used at all: allergen status, the certifications it carries, origin, non-GMO or organic status, kosher and halal certification, and any market-specific restriction. Holding these as structured attributes on the product rather than inside a downloadable PDF means a developer can reduce the range to what is usable in their product before asking a single question.
It is the highest-intent action on the site and frequently the least considered. Capturing the target product and application, the process the ingredient will go through, the claim or declaration being aimed at, the volume in prospect and the market it will be sold in means the sample arrives with technical guidance attached and the follow-up conversation starts from something concrete.
Manufacturing customers work under their own audit regimes and will request specifications, certificates of analysis, allergen declarations, audit certificates and origin statements, often repeatedly and often at short notice. A structured document area, with access matched to the sensitivity of each document type, turns a recurring email burden into something a customer can serve themselves.
We do not issue specifications, certificates or allergen declarations, and we do not verify certification status. We build the platform that presents what your quality and regulatory functions confirm, structured for a formulator to work with.
Code Industrial is the industrial B2B practice of Code Barcelona, an agency building corporate websites and digital platforms since 2015. The same strategy, design and engineering team works on every industrial project, from the first scoping session through to life after launch.
The build priorities for a food ingredients business are set by application breadth, the specification and certification data a developer filters on, and how samples and technical questions reach your team.
What comes up when building for an ingredients or food manufacturing business.
Around applications and formulation challenges as the primary route, with ingredient family, function and specification attributes available as filters underneath. Customers arrive thinking about the product they are developing rather than about your portfolio structure, so the application route usually carries the most traffic and converts best. Both routes should reach the same products, so a developer who knows the ingredient by name is never forced through an application journey.
Yes, provided those attributes are held as governed data rather than only inside specification PDFs. Allergen status, certification schemes, origin, organic and non-GMO status and kosher or halal certification decide whether an ingredient is usable at all, so they belong in the filter rather than in a document a developer has to open one product at a time. The source is normally the system your quality function already maintains.
Through a structured document area attached to the products, with access appropriate to each document type. Manufacturing customers request specifications, certificates of analysis, allergen declarations and audit certificates repeatedly, often under time pressure from their own audits. Giving them a reliable place to retrieve the current version removes a recurring load from your quality team and removes a common delay from the customer schedule.
Yes. Product and technical content is held centrally while availability, regulatory detail, permitted claims and local contacts vary by market, which avoids maintaining parallel country sites that drift apart over time. The important decision is which content is global and which is specific to a market, and getting that boundary right at the start is what keeps a multilingual platform maintainable as the portfolio grows.
It is the point where an anonymous visitor becomes a named development project. A request that captures the target product, the process, the claim or declaration being aimed at, the volume in prospect and the markets in scope lets an application specialist send relevant guidance with the sample. A bare name-and-address form produces a dispatch and a follow-up call that has to start from the beginning.
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Tell us how your ingredients are selected and supported. We will shape the application structure, specification data and sample journey around those formulation decisions.