Production takes place at state-of-the-art facilities on four continents,
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which all share ambitious goals to continuously improve
our performance on environment, climate and occupational
health and safety.
Chr. Hansen Germany – Technology center
in Pohlheim and Nienburg
Chr. Hansen has been active in Germany for more than 90 years, an
important market for the company. Pohlheim is our global center
of excellence for meat cultures, bioprotection as well as cultures
for non-alcoholic beer and fermented beverages. Since the site
has become part of Chr. Hansen in 1991, it has been extended
continuously with the latest significant expansion including new
logistic (2018) and QC facilities (2020). More than 80 passionated
employees work in innovation, production, logistics and support
functions by dedicated teamwork along the value chain, to secure
first class supply of our customers worldwide and day by day.
In September 1997 Chr. Hansen acquired fermentation facilities
for the production of enzymes in Nienburg/Weser. Since then,
chymosin, an enzyme for cheese production, has been produced
in a modern biotechnological fermentation process. Chr. Hansen
sells this enzyme to the cheese industry worldwide, from Nienburg
via a branch network of the group. The research department,
which was set up on site, in the meantime worked on
continuous further development of the production process and
the environmental friendliness of processes. The course is set:
Chr. Hansen focuses on novel agricultural solutions, reduction of
food waste as well as improved health care. The factory, which
by then also comprised a distribution and service center, today
employees 145 staff.
Pioneering science
Backed by more than 145 years of innovation and our curiosity
to pioneer, we constantly strive to anticipate global trends. We
put this into action at our major research facilities in Denmark
and 19 application and development center worldwide where we
work closely with our customers to bring new exciting products
to the market. We have a broad and relevant culture collection
with access to close to 40,000 microbial strains. This allows for
extensive screening and selection of the best available combinations
of strains. We have the know-how to solve customer needs
and help them deliver unique, safe and high-quality products.
Sustainability in focus
Chr. Hansen has been supplying natural ingredients to the food
industry for more than 145 years. Understanding of and respect
for nature’s scarce resources have always been an integral part
of our DNA, and we published our first sustainability commitment
as early as 1949. Today, sustainability remains at the core of our
overall strategy. In fact more than 80% of our revenue directly
supports UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. In 2019, our efforts
within sustainability were acknowledged when Chr. Hansen was
ranked as the world’s most sustainable company by Corporate
Knights. In 2020, Chr. Hansen confirmed its top position by being
appointed as no. 2 in the global ranking by Corporate Knights.
However, the journey is far from over.
Chr. Hansen in a nutshell:
• leading global biotechnology company
• key business: Development and manufacturing of enzymes,
food cultures, probiotic bacterial strains up to natural color
solutions for food, pharma and agricultural industry
• listed in C20-Index at NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen
• global turnover: 1,161 billion Euro in fiscal year 2018/19
• more than 3,700 employees in more than 30 countries
worldwide
• more than 30 subsidiaries worldwide
• research facilities in Denmark and USA
• development centers in Denmark, USA, France and Germany
• application centers in more than 20 countries
• modern production facilities on three continents
• awarded on the world’s most sustainable company
in January 2019
• ranking to the second most sustainable company in the
world 2020