Products

Our offerings are characterized by an extensive product range, many years of experience, and the highest standards.

Our Business Segments

Our core expertise lies in producing high-quality whey derivatives, primarily lactose and WPC80, which are used globally in baby food and sports nutrition.

Additionally, we offer a wide range of other powdered ingredients used in various food industry applications.

Whether as a basic ingredient or a refined specialty solution, our products stand for quality, safety, and superior functionality, developed for the individual requirements of our industrial customers.

Our strength is diversity: A second important business segment includes selected cheese varieties such as hard and semi-hard cheeses, as well as mozzarella. These are sold under the Paladin brand or as private label products, primarily in European food retail, or specifically used for particular applications in the food sector.

Production takes place at modernly equipped sites, certified according to internationally recognized standards such as FSSC 22.000 for our ingredients plants in Jessen, Zapfendorf, Peiting, and Winzer. Our cheese dairies in Jessen and Windsbach meet the highest product safety requirements with the IFS (International Featured Standard).

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Ingredients

Solutions for the highest customer demands:
Our cooperative is the world’s leading provider of organic whey derivatives and one of Germany’s largest processors of liquid whey.

Cheese

Around 60,000 tons of cheese leave our cheese production facilities every year – and this trend is increasing.

Innovation

Our mission: innovation and quality for leading brand manufacturers. We are an innovation-driven specialist and producer of high-quality functional ingredients for many leading brand manufacturers, especially in the baby food industry. Research and development form the heart of our success. Since 2024, we have been consolidating our activities in the areas of quality and innovation to specifically further expand our expertise.

As part of our innovation agenda, we’re focused on the future-oriented development and refinement of our cheese and whey products, along with their derivatives. Our core focus is on functional improvements and creating first-class products that meet the highest standards. With our ambitious construction project in Zapfendorf (Masterplan Ingredients), we’re creating the necessary conditions to bring innovative products to market readiness using cutting-edge technology and highly developed process engineering.

We’ve also made significant progress in developing potato-based ingredients, working closely with our customers to bring them to market. Additionally, we’re opening up new business areas with technology development in precision fermentation. In these forward-looking areas, we rely on trusting partnerships with specialized experts – a crucial key to our success. Together, we are shaping the future of functional ingredients – with innovation, quality, and foresight.

Significant

Progress

in Potato-Based Ingredients

We strive daily to give our best for our customers. That is why we are grateful for the open and constructive exchange. Through their adaptation and customization requests for our products, we continuously learn and develop. Whether it is optimizing the pH value of the dry matter or reducing the salt content – together we examine the possibilities and implement them consistently where possible. To live this form of collaboration with our customers, we rely on the principle of lifelong learning with our employees. It is important to us to challenge and promote our employees: in their development, motivation, as well as in their commitment and thirst for knowledge.

Best Raw Materials

Our producers are primarily responsible for the high quality of our raw materials. These are around 250 dairy farms, mainly from Saxony-Anhalt, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Brandenburg, Saxony, and Bavaria. Among them are family-run businesses and very large agricultural enterprises, conventionally managed farms and organic farmers, specialists and generalists.

All of our dairy producers operate according to the VLOG standard (Verband Lebensmittel ohne Gentechnik – Association Food without Genetic Engineering), meaning they produce milk without the use of genetically modified feed. The raw material is processed in our BMi plants, which are also certified according to the VLOG standard.