Royal DSM successfully completed its acquisition of Cargill’s cultures and enzymes business. The acquisition is the eighth in the Nutrition cluster since 2010 and is an integral part of DSM’s strategy for its Nutrition cluster to contribute to the current and future growth of DSM’s portfolio in health, nutrition and materials.
The integration of both businesses will take place in the next couple of months and is expected to be complete by mid-2013. The newly combined business will have a global manufacturing footprint with operations spread over three continents—in the United States with key strengths in manufacturing of bulk starter and direct set cultures, as well as lipases and coagulants; in France where the focus is on surface and ripening cultures, as well as lactic acid cultures and fermented enzymes; and in Australia where direct set cultures are produced.
Combining both businesses is in line with DSM’s ambitious growth plans for its dairy business. The increasing diversity of dairy products now available requires versatile culture offerings enhancing taste and texture as well as health benefits and convenience. With one of the broadest dairy ingredients portfolios including enzymes, PUFAs, vitamins, cultures, probiotics, bioactives, preservation systems and tests, the newly established business is able to service requirements from customers all around the world.
The new business provides a broad choice of fermentation-produced enzymes as well as animal-derived enzymes. The extended range of cultures offers taste, performance and differentiation for traditional and ethnic dairy products around the world. The surface and ripening culture portfolio, for instance, enables specific taste and textures to be created for the different kinds of specialty cheeses that vary greatly from region to region.
Commenting on the acquisition,Hans-Christian Ambjerg, President DSM Food Specialties, said: “We now have critical mass to serve customers worldwide with value creating solutions. With the excellent knowledge of our new colleagues combined with our own strengths in bio-based solutions, we look forward to working even closer with our customers to help them achieve the best in dairy, delivering differentiating products."
