General information about ATO

The Agrotechnological Research Institute ATO was founded in 1989. The institute comprises a staff of approximately 500 research workers, including 250 scientists. ATO is an organisation for fundamental and applied-scientific research for agriculture and horticulture, trade and export and for the industries manufacturing food and non-food products on the basis of agro-raw materials.

The target of the institute's multidisciplinary research is to enhance the added value of agroproducts and to develop new technologies, applications and markets for agro-raw materials. In three key issues the institute covers the whole production and distribution column, from the primary raw material up to and including the half-finished and end-products. ATO's key activities are:

Agro and Industrial Production Chains
 
* Quality of food and non-food raw materials
* Fresh products (storage, shelf life, packaging)
* Measurement systems for in- and extrinsic quality
* Process monitoring and control
* Logistics and marketing 
 
Food and Food Processing

* Development and fine-tuning of raw materials, processes and technologies
* Processing of vegetable and animal raw materials into high quality food products
 
Renewable Resources

* Development of industrial processing procedures and industrial products
* Products based on renewable vegetable and animal raw material 

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The Agrotechnological Research Institute works with tailor-made contract research and the institute's customers include chemical industries, agriculture and horticulture, trade, the car industry, the paper industry and the food processing industry all over the world.