Ohly

05/11/2007 : ABF Ingredients to build new Yeast Extracts Plant in China

ABF Ingredients have today announced a further expansion of their Ohly Yeast Extracts business with the building of a new Yeast Extracts plant in Acheng, Harbin, China.

The plant will produce a full range of Yeast Extract Specialties and will be part of a joint expansion with its sister company, AB Mauri, who will further expand in Bakers Yeast at the existing Acheng, Harbin site in the Heilong Jiang province in North Eastern China.

The plant will produce in excess of 15,000 tonnes of Yeast Extracts for the food and fermentation markets. It will be on stream in 2009 with an investment of approximately $50million.

ABF Ingredients CEO, Stephen Catling said “this is a logical expansion to our Ohly Yeast Specialties business which further compliments our ability to service the market globally with our existing plants in Europe and the USA.”

During 2006 and 2007, the company spent in excess of $15million on selective capacity expansions in their plants in Boyceville, Wisconsin and Hamburg, Germany.

CEO Ohly and Yeast Specialty Proteins, Robert Rouwenhorst said “the Yeast Extract market continues to grow, especially in the Asian region, we will be well placed to meet this demand”.

13/09/2007 : Ohly expands yeast extract operations in Boyceville

Ohly Americas (former Provesta Flavor Ingredients), a subsidiary of ABF Ingredients, celebrates with a Grand Opening on September 18^th the new yeast extract operations at their plant in Boyceville, Wisconsin. A series of investments to expand the Boyceville facility to become a dual flavor ingredients and yeast extracts manufacturing facility have now been concluded.

A major step for Ohly Americas is the expansion of its product portfolio. Previously only torula extracts were manufactured at the Hutchinson, MN facility. The new yeast extract operations at Boyceville allows the manufacture of products based on brewer´s, baker´s and torula yeast. These products are primarily used as ingredients for the flavor and savory food markets.

The expansions include indoor processing equipment, external raw material and product storage silos, a new warehouse as well as a new state of the art factory linked pilot plant. The research and development facilities will also be used for protein based food products and will be operated in co-operation with its sister company Protient, another subsidiary of ABF Ingredients.

Robert Rouwenhorst, Head of Proteins Division of ABF Ingredients says, “These investments will strengthen our abilities to develop and manufacture protein and yeast based derivatives designed for the food and nutrition markets.”

10/08/2007 : ProDry Specialty Powders on the European market

We are pleased to introduce our new product brand ProDry, formerly known as Provesta Specialty Powders, to the European market. The ProDry products are made of dry powders which are made from products found in today’s home kitchen such as honey, molasses, vinegars, mustards, various sauces and purees. The full product line encompasses sweeteners, vinegar powders, fruit powders, condiments, sauces, trans free high fat powder, nutritional bases and cheese powders.

Ohlys’ ProDry products are unique dry flavourings retaining the volatile flavour components of our original form. The dry powders deliver the same flavour, colour, and functional benefits as the liquid ingredient, but because of the dry, free flowing form, the dry ingredient can be used in dry technology applications.

The decades of history in drying ingredients in our Boyceville plant in Wisconsin, US, enables us to offer first class technical support on these products.

29/05/2007 : DHW/Ohly and Provesta merge to "Ohly" - An ABF Ingredients Company

Effective July 1st, 2007, the Provesta Flavor Ingredients business units located in Hutchinson, Minnesota and Boyceville, Wisconsin will merge with the business of Deutsche Hefewerke GmbH located in Hamburg, Germany and will trade under the name of:

Ohly

The strategic realignment of these complementary business units within ABF Ingredients will benefit customers by providing an enhanced focus on production, development and distribution of specialty ingredients for the savoury food and nutrition markets.

Operations will remain as previous with products continuing to be manufactured under the same specifications and at the same location.

ABF Ingredients is a division of Associated British Foods focusing on high value ingredients for food and non-food areas. Comprising of a range of ingredient companies including; AB Enzymes, ABITEC, Ohly, PGP International, Proteol and Protient.

The group have established strong market positions in cereal specialties, emulsifiers, enzymes, esters, extruded ingredients, lactose, specialty lipids, specialty powders, specialty flours, yeast extracts, whey protein concentrates and isolates and milk protein concentrates and isolates with locations worldwide.