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 100 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 142 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 highquality
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.
For more information: www.chr-hansen.com
Chr. Hansen in a nutshell:
• leading global biotechnology company
• key business: Development and manufacturing of enzymes,
food cultures and probiotic bacterial strains for food, pharma
and agricultural industry
• listed in C20-Index at NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen
• global turnover: 1,189 billion Euro in fiscal year 2019/20
• more than 3,600 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
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