Ingredion Inc., Westchester, Ill., a global provider of ingredient solutions to diversified industries, said it partnered with The Hatchery Chicago, a non-profit food business incubator. The partnership is part of the Ingredion for Emerging Business initiative launched to help emerging food and beverage companies turn innovative ideas into on-trend, scalable, food and beverage products.

Ingredion said its partnership with The Hatchery Chicago connects the company with the local food and beverage start-up community, while helping to empower entrepreneurs with Ingredion’s customer-centric ingredient solutions, its food and beverage product development expertise, its market insights and its new Emerging Business e-commerce platform. Ingredion will work with The Hatchery Chicago to offer classes, webinars and a mentorship program to Chicago-area entrepreneurs.

The mission of The Hatchery Chicago is to enable local food and beverage entrepreneurs to build and grow successful businesses through three major areas of need: access to production space, financing and resources. The Hatchery recently broke ground on a 67,000-square-foot facility in the East Garfield Park section of Chicago that will house between 75 and 100 food entrepreneurs.

To learn more, visit www.thehatcherychicago.org. To learn more about Ingredion for Emerging Business, visit www.emergefaster.com.