Tate & Lyle are celebrating the opening of its expanded oat ingredients manufacturing facility in Kimstad, Sweden.
The company have made a $100 million investment in additional capacity for the company’s speciality food ingredients division. With the expansion Tate & Lyle have said it now has increased capacity at the plant more than tenfold since acquiring it as part of its acquisition of Biovelop in May 2013.
Tate & Lyle’s operations at the Kimstad plant involve a chemical-free patented manufacturing process that the company uses to transform locally sourced Swedish oats into high value ingredients such as PromOat beta glucan and PrOatein oat protein.
The ingredients then are used in a wide variety of foods and beverages, including breakfast cereals, bars and sports shakes.
Joan Braca president of speciality food ingredients at Tate & Lyle said: “We continue to see growing demand for oat ingredients across the world as consumers look for healthier and tastier foods.
“Through the expansion of our facility in Sweden, and our deep formulation expertise, we will be able to help our customers develop more products with health-benefit claims and functional benefits.”
Henrik Schmidt vice-president and general manager of oat ingredients at Tate & Lyle added: “The number of employees at the facility has more than doubled since 2013 and many local companies have been used to deliver the expansion and provide supplies and services.
“We would like to thank the local authorities for their support of this project and we look forward to our continued relationship with them.”
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