R&D is also important in developing new products to meet market and customer requirements in the specialty fats vertical. Most of our industrial customers require a certain degree of customization for the specialty fats we supply, we collaborate closely with our customers to produce the fats according to their formulations, which we believe is one of the reasons that we have long-lasting relationships with our industrial consumers. We also use advanced technology and processes to perform a number of tests on our new products to ensure usability, including the use of nuclear magnetic resonance analyzer to estimate the solid fat content at different temperatures of our products and gas chromatography to estimate the composition of fatty acid in the edible oil or fats. Our R&D team that is involved in the spices and convenience foods business focuses on new product development across masalas, spice mixes, seasonings, base gravies and other food solutions, including customer-centric solutions, along with continuous product improvement, cost optimisation, process enhancement and evaluation of new raw materials.

R&D in our production processes is an integral part of our work culture. We continually focus on R&D in process improvements to help improve our yields and quality, and reduce processing costs. This has been an important part of our strategy over the years.