FULL PRODUCTION SERVICE
50 years experience of fermentation and downstream processes
Full responsibility of the operation
Extensive on-line monitoring
Waste management
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Our industrial fermentation services
You have engineered a perfect microorganism and developed a breakthrough fermentation process that will serve a new business that will enhance the sustainability of the activities of your prospected partners. You have obtained the desirable results in your laboratory, and probably even made the demonstration that you can reproduce these results at pilot size. But are you willing to go to the industrial size on your own ?
Investing in industrial fermentation facility can request very high funds. Even if you succeed to raise such, building a team to operate a commercial stable manufacturing will prove to a much bigger challenge than you expected.
Ajinomoto Foods Europe Nesle plant has demonstrated over the past 20 years its expertise of fermentation scale-up, reliable manufacturing and process improvement. Our facility, located in north of France in an environment that ensures sustainable activity, includes cultures of more than 100 m³ and their associated equipment. We have served the food industry, but also some niche applications in cleaning agents, cosmetics or pharmaceutical. We have acquired the mastery of quality, safety, and environmental risks.
The good news is : we are proposing this asset and this experience as a service.
Our services
Process scale up
TRANSPOSITION OF YOUR PROCESS IN OUR LABORATORY
Possible adaptation to local substrates
Fine-tuning of the inoculation train
Vulnerability to parameters fluctuation
ANALYTICAL TRANSFER OR DEVELOPMENT
OPTIONAL USE OF INTERMEDIATE SIZE CULTURE
Smoother scale-up
Generation of large volume of samples
TRANSPOSITION TO INDUSTRIAL SIZE CULTURE
Commercial operation
SUPPLY CHAIN
Procurement scheduling
Storage of raw materials and final product
Shipment as you request
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Experienced system to manage control plans, release…
Benefit of our risks control and regulatory survey
Continuous improvement to optimize costs
Technologies
160 M³ INDUSTRIAL CULTURES
Continuous sterilization systems
Intermediate cultures for biomass growth
DOWNSTREAM PROCESS
Cell separation
Evaporation
Solid/Liquid separation
Crystallization
Drying
Our values
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CUSTOMER COMMITMENT
We are committed to meet customer’s specific expectations in a collaborative approach.
We are committed to meet customer’s specific expectations in a collaborative approach.
SUSTAINABILITY
What we do and decide always integrates the intention to be able to do it perennially, drawing upon resources that can be renewed, and not harming any life or activity on Earth.
What we do and decide always integrates the intention to be able to do it perennially, drawing upon resources that can be renewed, and not harming any life or activity on Earth.
Constant innovation
We aim to be recognized for our ability to address the challenges our customers face, while striving to navigate unexplored areas of food science.
We aim to be recognized for our ability to address the challenges our customers face, while striving to navigate unexplored areas of food science.
VALUE PEOPLE
We consider each employee to be a unique individual, and we consider the development of skills, career growth and well-being at work to be key responsibilities of our management team.
We consider each employee to be a unique individual, and we consider the development of skills, career growth and well-being at work to be key responsibilities of our management team.
SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION
All our decisions and projects are designed to generate value that will be shared between our company and our stakeholders, e.i. our customers or other communities.
All our decisions and projects are designed to generate value that will be shared between our company and our stakeholders, e.i. our customers or other communities.
HIGH STANDARD
We always aim for the highest level of product reliability, the lowest possible risk to our employees and the environment, and maximum performance in every activity.
We always aim for the highest level of product reliability, the lowest possible risk to our employees and the environment, and maximum performance in every activity.
More on sustainability
Our vision is deeply rooted in the fact that everything we do for any stakeholder has only value if it can be done in a perennial way. This means that we only use resources that we do not contribute to deplete, that we preserve the nature around us, that we maintain the skills of our employees and cultivate those of tomorrow, and that we strengthen our economic strength. To achieve all these ambitions, we use a comprehensive management system that ensures that we consider all the possible impacts of a project or change, that we analyze any deviations and eliminate their causes, and that we continuously measure and improve our performance.
Environment
Like any plant, our industrial activity has interactions with our environment : we use and reject water and air and generate some noise.
energy
As every fermentation site, our plant is using a lot of energy such as steam, electricity and cooling power.
Integration
We are proud to be completely integrated in the agricultural and industrial activity of our area. Our fermentation substrates come from local sugar or glucose factories, and our energy comes from sustainably managed forests of close regions.
Key figures of the Ajinomoto group
SINCE 1909
Our company was founded 106 years ago with the discovery of “umami”. Our founder’s original aspiration, consisting of a “frontier spirit” and the “creation of new values”, is still at the core of Ajinomoto’s activities and preoccupations.
130 COUNTRIES
Ajinomoto® was exported to Taiwan in 1910, which is the next year of the company’s founding. The New York office was established in 1917. The number of countries and areas selling Ajinomoto Group products now exceeds 130.
31 300 PEOPLE
Spread over 26 countries and areas around the world, the various employees of the Ajinomoto Group develop the business stemming from each local culture.
128 PLANTS
We are now developing plants in 21 countries and areas around the world, delivering safe and reliable products to customers throughout the world.
7 BILLIONS USD (SALES AMOUNT)
We offer seasonings, processed foods, beverages, pharmaceutical products, amino acids, specialty chemicals and other various products to the world.
1 700 PEOPLE
The number of R&D workers of the Ajinomoto Group, which was approximately 100 in 1956, has highly increased with the growth of the business. This is why the Ajinomoto Group is said to be an unrivalled food company driven by technology