Danish biotech company Asiros has acquired a fruit and berry concentrate and extract processing facility from the Swedish Nordic Food Group.
The production facility in Sorø, west of Copenhagen, has supplied high quality juices and concentrates to the global food industry for a number of year. The operation, to be known as Asiros Nordic, will secure Asiros’ access to top-quality berry concentrates and extracts used in the company’s technically advanced BerryShield berry powders and bioactive finished products for the global market.
Asiros Nordic will continue the production of high-quality products such as organic blueberry concentrate and elderberry flower extract, as well as customised products such as ginger and rhubarb juice for existing and new customers. The high level of technical know-how will create important synergies in the development of new Asiros Nordic products including a series of vegetable concentrates with improved stability, the company said.
Morten Weidner, CEO of Asiros, said: “With this strategically important plant acquisition, we are now able to control the whole production chain and quality from field to final product. This is extremely important since it empowers us to obtain our prime goal: to place Nordic quality in processed fruit and berry products on the global map and become the global leading manufacturer of berry powders and fruit and vegetable concentrates, where taste and colour or bioactivity is shielded against break down.
“By combining our analytical power and deep scientific understanding of the content of berries with the production process, we will place Asiros Nordic in the frontline of high-quality natural product processing, which will benefit not only our own product lines, BerryShield and MitoActive, but all customers using our production services.”
The production facility, Asiros continued, is the only plant of its kind in Denmark able to contract manufacture both large and smaller quantities of conventional as well as organic fruit, berry and vegetable concentrates, elderberry flower extracts and specialised products.
The production and service of contracts will continue unchanged, and existing staff will retain their jobs.
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