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Danish ingredient manufacturer Ferm Food has acquired a former manufacturing facility from Orkla in Skovlund, Denmark.
The move aims to significantly increase production of fermented plant-based ingredients for the global food industry.
The acquisition, which takes effect on Wednesday, 1 April 2026, will provide the company with additional production infrastructure to scale up its fermentation technology amid rising international demand.
The newly acquired site will produce fermented ingredients derived from a range of plant-based raw materials, including legumes, rapeseed press cake, kernels, oats, buckwheat and wheat, targeting manufacturers looking for more natural functional ingredients in food formulations.
Once fully operational, the site is expected to support an annual capacity of up to 20,000 tonnes of fermented ingredients, depending on product mix, supplementing Ferm Food’s existing production capacity in Vejen, Denmark.
Jens Legarth, Ferm Foods CEO, said: “We have outgrown our current facilities. With the Skovlund site, we can supply many more food manufacturers in Denmark and abroad. Global interest has developed faster than we expected, and that is why we are scaling up now.”
The new facility will support Ferm Food’s strategy to supply functional fermented ingredients to a wider range of manufacturers across Europe and other export markets.
Ferm Food develops ingredients designed to help manufacturers improve functionality in food formulations while maintaining simpler ingredient lists. The ingredients are produced using solid-state fermentation with selected lactic acid bacteria, a process that breaks down unwanted compounds in raw materials while generating bioactive compounds that support functionality.
Ferm Food operates under the parent company Fermentationexperts, which has developed and patented the fermentation technology used by the business. The group operates production facilities in the US, Malaysia, Denmark and Ukraine, focused on producing plant protein and fermentation-based ingredients at industrial scale.
