Ingredients in China – ABF Ingredients - AB Mauri-Associated British Foods

ABF Ingredients is a division of Associated British Foods focusing on high value ingredients for food and non-food areas. ABFI comprises a range of ingredient companies including:

AB Enzymes

PGP International

Ohly

ABITEC Corp

Protient

Among those, AB Enzymes and Ohly already have representative offices in China.

AB Enzymes are one of the world's oldest Enzyme companies and its products include food enzymes for bakery products and beverages through to enzymes for feed and products for textile technology and the pulp/paper industry.

AB Enzymes are represented in more than 50 countries worldwide with headquarters in Darmstadt,Germany. In addition there are also offices located in the US, Singapore, China, Poland and Brazil to serve you locally.

AB Enzymes has four business units: Baking ; Food & Specialties; Animal Feed; Technical Enzymes. We provide products in a range of formats to enable you to choose the one that fits your business requirementsOhly is one of the world's leading suppliers of yeast extracts, yeast based flavours and specialty powders for the food, biotechnology, health and animal feed markets globally.

Ohly is one of the world's leading suppliers of yeast extracts, yeast based flavours and specialty powders for the food, biotechnology, health and animal feed markets globally.

Ohly offers a wide range of products such as yeast extracts, inactive dry yeast, special vitamin yeast, yeast cell wall derivatives, medical yeast and autolysed yeast, based on baker's and/or torula yeast, as well as wine yeast, specialty powders and starter cultures.

Using state of the art research and application centers as well as factory linked pilot plants combined with a wealth of expertise, Ohly also develops tailor-made products in close cooperation with customers to provide solutions to the changing market demands.

Ohly Yeast Extracts business is undergoing a further expansion with the building of a new Yeast Extracts plant in Acheng, Harbin, in the Heilong Jiang province in North Eastern China.

The plant will produce a full range of Yeast Extract Specialties and will produce in excess of 15,000 tonnes of Yeast Extracts for the food and fermentation markets. It will be on stream in 2009 with an investment of approximately $50million.

CEO Ohly and Yeast Specialty Proteins, Robert Rouwenhorst said "the Yeast Extract market continues to grow, especially in the Asian region, we will be well placed to meet this demand".