SinnovaTek is primarily an equipment purveyor, but it has also spun out successful contract development and production businesses serving some of the nation’s largest consumer corporations, while still making it possible for small entrepreneurial North Carolina food startups to affordably test their ideas. the company’s FirstWave Innovations manufacturing subsidiary opened a small-scale facility in Raleigh in 2020, an 8,300 sq. ft. site for pilot manufacturing and for helping companies and entrepreneurs launch and test new products.In September FirstWave Innovations began full-scale contract processing and packaging at a new $20 million, 62,500 sq. ft. plant in Nash County’s Middlesex Corporate Centre, about 35 miles east of Raleigh. the company says the newly upfitted industrial shell building is now one of the most advanced food-processing factories in the world. the company expects to double its staff, with some 25 new employees by the end of this year and as many as 75 employees there by the end of 2025.SinnovaTek also markets the highly specialized food processing equipment it develops and uses, which primarily incorporates a technology called continuous-flow microwave thermal processing.It’s a platform that enables long shelf life and flavor and quality preservation of fruit- and vegetable-based fluid food products.

Construction of 62,500 sq. ft. expansion facility and equipping that facility to meet production demand for co-packing contracts.SinnovaTek is a leading developerand integrator of advanced foodprocessing equipment andtechnology through its family ofcompanies including SinnoVitaand FirstWave.As a certified Bcorporation, SinnovaTek’s missionis to promote worldwide healthand wellness by fostering thedelivery of high quality, healthyfoods through sustainablemethods.This NMTC transaction willfinance the SinnovaTek subsidiaryFirstWave, which produces highquality, shelf stable food productswith low minimum orderquantities.They launch, rapidprototype, and test market newaseptic food products, allowing forhigh quality, nutrient-rich shelfstable foods. the company is in the process ofexpanding, by developing a 62,500square foot facility in Middlesex,NC that will be immediatelyaccessible from Interstate 95.Construction is already 90%complete on the building.