ARTICLE 56 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE September 2022 while exploring new capacities will bring about change with the most impact. A MODEL FOR ORGANISATIONAL AMBIDEXTERITY The essence of organisational ambidexterity is dedicating equal attention to the exploitation of existing themes, ideas and businesses, alongside the exploration and discovery of completely new ones. The longer-term objective is to create new organisational capabilities. We have embedded this principle within Nutreco in the shape of a new, dedicated business unit known as Nutreco Exploration (NutEx), which was launched in June this year. The focus of NutEx is to develop novel and proprietary ultra-specialities, which provide solutions to the unmet needs of needs in animal nutrition and feeding. The initial scope of the scientific discovery on which we’re focused encompasses three important and complementary programmes: phytotechnology, biotechnology and physical chemistry. There is so much that can be done in these spaces. Indeed, during the last 15 years, accelerated technological development sparked a biological sciences big bang - with major impact on the animal nutrition industry. On one hand, the recent progress in animal physiology can be leveraged to enter a new era for phytotechnology in animal nutrition and health. In the last 20 years, these phytochemicals have been exploited to meet the challenges of evolving regulatory requirements. In this context, these compounds were successfully used for their antimicrobial properties. However, there is much more to do with phytochemicals in animal nutrition and health. Beyond the now classical use of essential oils because of their intrinsic antimicrobial properties, the field of medicinal plants is vast. In human medicine today, there is a major movement towards a (re)appreciation of these plants, integration with conventional medicine, and the modernization of traditional medicines. In our field of animal and aqua nutrition, this work is essential: to explore medicinal plants with a new
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