You create quality, we just help improve it
Every day, food manufacturers face the same challenge: keeping products safe, fresh, tasty and trustworthy, from the production line to the consumer's table.
Galactic is a specialist in bio-based antimicrobials. We work side by side with manufacturers of perishable goods across the globe, combining deep scientific expertise with genuine local proximity, to solve real formulation challenges, in a simple and effective way.
Behind every effective solution is a team that understands your reality
Our Research and Development department excels with a strategic structure encompassing four core areas of expertise: Fermentation, Analytical Sciences, Application, and New Product Development; all working together to deliver solutions that meet your real production challenges.
From our labs in Belgium, China, and the United States, our experts don't just develop solutions, they validate them in conditions that reflect yours.
The right protection for every challenge
From pathogen control to shelf-life extension and clean-label reformulation, Galactic is on its way to cover a major part of the challenges that tomorrow's world will have to face in the food industry.
The right expertise for every application
Meat, plant-based foods, ready meals, dairy, bakery, beverages, every product category brings its own microbial challenges, regulatory pressures, and consumer expectations. Our food application experts bring hands-on knowledge of your formulation constraints, your production environment, and the performance standards to help you find the antimicrobial solution that truly fits.
Additionally, Galactic develops and produces specialty solutions for cosmetic applications, animal nutrition, mineral fortification and more, based on fermentation-derived lactic acid.
Careers
At Galactic, passion and diversity are the watchwords. With our ambition to improve consumers’ lives by developing safe, healthy, sustainable, and quality food products, we're looking for self-motivated individuals with a particular sensitivity to sustainability and innovation.
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Galactic is one of the world’s leading producers of lactic acid and its derivatives.