The brand new Leipzig facility will concentrate on enzyme and pressure engineering, the corporate stated.
Public meals firm Kerry Group has established a brand new biotechnology centre in Leipzig, Germany, to develop options throughout meals, beverage and pharma purposes. The corporate, identified finest globally for its dairy merchandise, additionally works throughout meals safety, diet, pharma and life sciences.
In 2022, the Group acquired College of Leipzig spin-out C-Lecta, a specialist in enzymes and biotech, for €137m. The brand new Kerry Biotechnology Centre builds on the success it discovered within the area, with its creating biotech analysis cluster, Kerry Group stated.
The Leipzig facility will concentrate on enzyme and pressure identification and engineering, fermentation, and bioprocess growth, scale-up and manufacturing. Enzymes chosen from nature will be tailor-made to carry out particular capabilities with purposes in a broad spectrum of use circumstances, the corporate defined.
Kerry’s biotech analysis and manufacturing infrastructure spans three continents and is led and co-ordinated from Kerry’s International Innovation Centre in Eire.
The brand new biotech centre in Leipzig can be directed by Dr Marc Struhalla, the founding father of C-LEcta, and, based on the Group, will draw on the work of greater than 100 scientists and technical consultants, together with 34 PhDs based mostly within the centre.
In recent times, Kerry Group, which is headquartered in Tralee, has expanded its biotech capabilities, with a rising know-how and manufacturing footprint by means of investments and acquisitions, together with the acquisition of Mexican enzyme producer Enmex in late 2021 for €62m.
“Biotechnology options current a brand new horizon of innovation and alternative for world meals, beverage and pharmaceutical markets,” stated Kerry CEO Edmond Scanlon.
“Kerry’s current portfolio of biotech capabilities, which has been constructed up over the previous 20 years, along with this new biotechnology centre, allows us to play a number one position in bringing the subsequent era of discoveries on this area to market, supporting our clients, as they meet shopper wants for sustainable diet.”
Earlier this 12 months, Kerry Group opened a brand new analysis, growth and purposes facility in Indonesia, in addition to a brand new Digital Centre of Excellence at its International Innovation Centre in Naas, Co Kildare.
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