getting started

CREATING AND DEVELOPING A SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT

At Berner, we have the unique ability to take a concept, convert it into a prototype, test it, and ultimately, ramp up to full commercialization and production. Our research and development team has vast experience in the development and management of shelf stable products. Our sales and marketing teams are dedicated to serve your needs, providing reports and marketplace trends to keep you ahead of the curve when developing new products. Our eager-to-solve attitude is focused on customer solutions and rapid turnaround, and not constrained by past practices or a ‘we don’t do it that way’ mentality. We offer the capabilities to help you meet consumers’ ever-growing nutritional choices, including free-from claims and various dietary restrictions.

R&D THAT DELIVERS

We utilize our expertise and capabilities to provide our customers with a full service offering, from idea development to concept to commercialization. With our collaborative and partnership approach, we are at your service. With 100 years of combined experience in the development, manufacturing and commercialization of shelf stable products, we understand the challenges the manufacturing process can present to product development, and we thrive on meeting those challenges.

We have the knowledge and ability to create a product, from idea development to concept to commercialization, for our private label customers and to adapt and commercialize products for our co-man customers, who come to us with their own formula. With our collaborative approach, we are as involved as you would like us to be. Our extensive thermal process development and testing methodology assure the faithful execution of your products.

HOW BERNER DOES RETORT BETTER

Berner is one of the largest producers of retort products in North America. Retort processing is one of the safest and most flexible ways to make low acid/high pH foods commercially sterile and shelf stable, but requires significant expertise and know-how. At Berner, we have decades of experience and have become experts at retort processing.

High heat and pressure on hermetically sealed container

Commercially sterile, shelf-stable product

Ability to stabilize and nuance flavor

Economical way to increase shelf life

All natural emulsification systems that can withstand high-temp processing

Safest, flexible way to make low acid/high pH foods shelf stable

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FORMULATION SUCCESS STORY

One delicious drink leads to a large-scale latte

  • CHALLENGE

    Our customer came to us with a great-tasting, perfectly-flavored latte sample—but with no means to produce it.

  • APPROACH

    With our eager-to-solve, collaborative attitude, we got to work with our customer to determine exactly what was needed to ramp them up to full commercialization and production.

  • SOLUTION

    Our stage-gate process followed the product from beginning to end, through scale-up testing, quick high-volume production runs, and final delivery. We were happy to help bring this tasty idea to life as a viable commercial product, and our customer was pleased to be able to fill their high-volume order on time, as promised.