Orafti, Palatinit and Remy become BENEO
Since 2007, three companies: Orafti, Palatinit and Remy have been working together as one. Known simply as BENEO, the company produces functional ingredients derived from chicory roots, beet sugar, rice and wheat and focuses on catering to the latest trends in food, feed and pharma. The basis for the success was laid long before.
- BENEO
- Palatinit
- Orafti
- Remy
The site in Germany processes local pulses into high-quality food and feed ingredients.
BENEO represents an important sustainability milestone by reducing CO2 Emissions at Wijgmaal Plant.
BENEO’s new product is a natural and clean label wholegrain barley flour.
BENEO is investing six million Euro in new starch drying capacity at its Wijgmaal factory.
Acquisition of the Dutch company Meatless specialized in plant-based texturizer
Opening of new production plant for vegetal protein in
Wanze, Belgium
Opening of regional application centre in Sao Paulo, Brazil
BENEO’s chicory root fibres are listed as “approved dietary fibres” by the U.S Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
BENEO opens North American application center in Parsippany, USA to showcase advances in nutrition and technical food applications.
EU health claims for BENEO’s chicory root fibres ”inducing a lower blood glucose response” to be added as 2016 milestone.
Opening of regional application centre in Tienen, Belgium
Foundation of regional sales office in Guargon, India
Launch of new biomass boiler in Pemuco, Chile as a major step in sustainability.
Foundation of the BENEO-Technology Center to support with expertise relating to application technology.
EU health claims for ISOMALT and Palatinose™ for being toothfriendly and low glycaemic.
Foundation of the BENEO-Institute facilitating access to the latest scientific research and knowledge across all nutritional and regulatory topics related to BENEO ingredients.
Palatinose™ received toothfriendly US health claim.
Foundation of BENEO and merger of three business units with sales into food, feed and pharmaceutical industries.
Launch of galenIQ, the pharmaceutical grade of ISOMALT, and inclusion into U.S Pharmacopoeia (USP) and National Formulary (NF).
Start of production of chicory root fibre in Pemuco, Chile.
Remy – opening of new production plant for rice flour in Confienza, Italy.
Launch of Palatinose™, the next generation carbohydrate.
The BENEO™ Label Programme initiative promoted BENEO and the benefits of Synergy1 a Prebiotic Fibre on end products.
Large scale capacity expansion at the production site in Offstein, Germany.
Inclusion of a pharmaceutical grade of ISOMALT into Pharmacopoeia Europeae (Ph.Eur).
Acquisition of Remy Industries by Orafti and shortly after by the Südzucker Group.
Patent and launch of the first combined oligofructose enriched inulin, Orafti®Synergy1.
ISOMALT portfolio diversified into different grades and launch of the ISOMALT family.
Opening of the first production plant for ISOMALT in Offstein, Germany.
Acquisition by the Südzucker Group and business renamed Orafti.
Business focus is mainly on rice starches, rice flours, and rice proteins for food and feed applications.
Foundation of Palatinit Sweetener GmbH, as part of the Südzucker Group, to market ISOMALT.
1921 Portfolio extended to include applications such as glue, pasta, baby food and feed.
The company Palatinit got its name because the sugar beets as raw material are grown and processed in a region in South-West Germany called Palatinate.
Edouard Remy founded the company Remy in 1855 (which later became BENEO-Remy) and launched rice starch for laundry applications.
Founding of the Oreye plant in 1889, Belgium, as a sugar beet refinery.