NEWS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE January 2023 7 The Adisseo Group announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire NorFeed and its subsidiaries, a French group that designs, manufactures, and markets plant-based specialty ingredients and plant extracts for animal nutrition. This acquisition is part of the Adisseo Group’s global leadership strategy for specialty feed ingredients. This investment is a key step for Adisseo in its strategy of developing specialty ingredients, and its ambition to make Nor-Feed a French leader in functional plant extracts for animal nutrition. By offering natural and sustainable solutions to its customers, Adisseo is positioning itself on a market with an annual growth of almost 10%. Adisseo and Nor-Feed have already identified some synergies, in particular, to strengthen and develop the penetration and adoption of these products in very high growth markets where Adisseo is already well-established and has real legitimacy. Nor-Feed will continue to autonomously manage its R&D, production and sales network. Olivier Clech and Pierre Chicoteau will continue to lead the company. ADISSEO will give Nor-Feed the benefit of all its expertise and network to help it achieve its objectives and implement the synergies identified. “We are pleased to have signed an agreement to acquire the NorFeed Group, which is consistent with the Adisseo mission to offer its customers sustainable, affordable, qualitative, and safe solutions. This operation is part of our strategy to accelerate the growth of our Specialty products on unique and differentiating technologies,” said Jean-Marc Dublanc, CEO of Adisseo. Read more>> Adisseo acquires French plant-based ingredient producer Nor-Feed we need to make to achieve our mission,” the representatives said. "Our Innovation teams work to help farmers optimise their practices with data-driven decision making through precision farming and nutrition; customised to an animal’s specific requirements. This helps farmers produce more, strengthen animals’ health and resilience and reduces the need to use external additions such as antibiotics in a sustainable way. So, while we remain fully committed to supporting animal and fish farmers, we know that to feed a growing population, our industry must maximise all sources of food protein." For Nutreco this means adhering to its core principle of “and/and” rather than “either/or” and continuing to investigate different ways to optimise all protein sources, including plant-based proteins, cultured proteins and fungal fermentation. Through its NuFrontiers team, for example, the company has developed innovative partnerships with the likes of Mosa Meat, BlueNalu, Enough and Roslin Technologies. The company's newest team NutEx (short for Nutreco Exploration) was set up to explore new science that unlocks novel nutritional solutions for animals. The company's representatives said that they have especially focused on exploring the potential of phytotechnology and biotechnology, to capitalise on the tech-accelerated “big bang” in biological sciences over the last 15 years. Read more>>
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