The new site in Beijing represents DuPont Nutrition & Health’s first step in packaging probiotics into ready-to-market formats that allow the company to offer its customers improved speed to market, quality and flexibility.
Investment and capacity were not disclosed.
“Probiotics is a fast-growing segment of our business and the industry is experiencing double-digit growth rates annually around the world and in China,” said Fabienne Saadane-Oaks, vice president health and protection, DuPont Nutrition & Health. “As we continue to support the world’s growing population, this expansion allows us to custom blend and package high-quality probiotic products for our customers in the fast-growing dietary supplement and food and beverage industries close to our customers, where we want to be.”
DuPont has eight sites in China that provide a range of food ingredients, from emulsifiers, hydrocolloids (blended ingredients), enzymes and sweetener ingredients to food protection ingredients, soy protein, lecithin and fibre, and molecular diagnostic solutions.
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