Functional Technologies is a bioindustrial company focused on providing innovative and proprietary solutions to high-impact problems in the global food, beverage and healthcare industries, by capitalizing on its core competencies in microorganism-based technologies and platforms.

Through extensive fundamental and applied research programs, Functional Technologies has developed several proprietary yeast-based technology platforms that enable a yeast strain's natural and innate functions to prevent the formation of common contaminants.

Functional Technologies' lead products are a suite of wine yeasts that prevent the formation of hydrogen sulphide (H2S), colourless volatile gas and a natural by-product of wine fermentation that causes a distinctive, unpleasant noxious odour in wine, beer and other yeast-fermented beverages. It is one of the most common occurring sensory defects in winemaking worldwide, and is a widespread and costly quality-control problem in commercial wine production.