- 1986founded
- 40experts
- $10M+in equipment
- 2sites: Cintech and Centre HUMAMI
How we work
Cintech’s experts and specialists work as a team to think through, deliver and accelerate innovation projects, and so improve their chances of success: product creation, process improvement, techno-economic analysis, thermal process validation, scale-up, regulatory affairs, quality assurance, production and co-manufacturing, market opportunity validation and co-creation workshops.
Our story
- 1986
Cintech is founded, affiliated with the Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe.
- 2020
Acceleration: Campus V, a protein expertise centre and pooled R&D with well-established Quebec food companies.
- 2022
$3.8M in support from Canada Economic Development; Campus V, Quebec’s first incubator dedicated to plant proteins.
- 2023
Centre HUMAMI moves to the Château Fontaine vineyard; Cintech becomes a global R&D centre for Clextral.
- 2025
Launch of the Ingredients and Powders Centre with Palamatic Process; training partnership with ITAQ.
Our initiatives
Campus V — Quebec’s first incubator dedicated to plant proteins, born from a collaboration between AG-Bio Centre and Cintech.
District Lupel — an ecosystem to increase Quebec’s food autonomy, set up by Groupe Inspire with IDÉ Trois-Rivières and Cintech.
Atlas Project — concrete solutions to curb the effects of climate change in agriculture and food processing.