ProdAl’s work is based on specific services for the laboratory analysis, engineering and development of prototype solutions related to all phases of primary production, treatment, conservation and distribution of food products. ProdAl also offers training and consultancy services to businesses on all areas relating to the sector.


ProdAl - Centro Regionale di Competenza Produzioni Agroalimentari
Università degli Studi di Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo
Tel.: +39 089 964028
Fax: +39 089 964168
test tecnologie prodal innova ICT GEAR dfm Bioteknet Benecon Amra
Chose a Tab for the details
The offer is organised in the following Strategic Business Units (SBU):

SBU 1 – Applied research and innovation:
·Enhancement of vegetable raw materials
·Enhancement of animal raw materials
·Process innovation
·Product innovation
·Trademarks and patents
·Recovery and valorisation of waste materials
·Food packaging
·Fingerprinting of typical and regional products

SBU 2 – Technical consulting:
·Traceability and trackability
·Labelling: exploitation of food products by means of correct labelling
·Certification: ISO 22000:2005 and HACCP
·Support on plants and processes
·Laboratory testing
·Packaging testing

SBU 3 – Strategic consulting and marketing:
·Technology auditing
·Technology foresight
·Technology scouting
·Innovation programs

SBU 4 – Training:
·Training for young graduates
·Training for private companies staff
·Training for public administration staff.
ProdAl draws on the contributions of research groups operating within the organisations of all its member-institutions.
ProdAl operates by integrating the multidisciplinary capabilities of human resources to support the agri-food enterprises through the industrial chain. The organisation model is able:

1. to overcome the fragmentation of the research groups acting in the agri-food field in Campania, showing the effectiveness of synergic and of multidisciplinary teams

2. to highlight the applicative potential of research carried out by research institutions

3. to build a stable network of competences acting by an effective system integration

4. to make the research results available for the productive chains to increase the quality and the added value of the products

5. to answer to the explicitly and implicitly demand of transferable researchof the industrial system

6. to make a new institution consistent and able to manage wide innovative actions in the agri-food field

7. to educate professionals for the innovation management of the enterprises in different fields of the agri-food productive chain.
The potential market for the research and consulting activities of ProdAl consists of:

·national and international agri-food companies;
·research institutes;
·Public Administration.
·In terms of training activities, the potential market consists of:
·the staff of national and international agri-food companies;
·direct and indirect employees of the Public Administration;
·young graduates.