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Offering
the best of
nature
Food, Nutrition
and Health
Plant-based Chemistry
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F U N D A M E N T A L S
to understand our Group
C O N T E N T S
1. A family-owned
international group
2. Offering
the best of nature
3. Two strategic
sectors
4. Firmly rooted
in the land
5. Research
& Development,
the key to progress
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T H E
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F U N D A M E N T A L S
Illustration
of
ears
of
Wheat
to understand our Group
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A family-owned
international
group
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A family-owned
international group
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Roquette is an international group
whose capital is 100% family-owned.
The stability of the family shareholder-base
and the independence of the group have
contributed to its success.
In 1933, the Roquette brothers, Dominique
and Germain, decided to build a potato
starch plant in Lestrem, France.
In the 1940s, they diversified their activity to
include corn starch.
As of the 1950s, they began investing in the
development of a range of Polyols
(such as sorbitol, mannitol, xylitol, maltitol) and,
in the 1980s, they launched the production
of wheat starch.
In 2005, peas were added to the list
of raw materials, and since 2008
the Roquette Group has been strongly
involved in the microalgae sector.
n°2 in Europe
n°1 in France and in India
n°5 in the global starch
industry
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of revenue per year reinvested
in industrial capital and R&D
Simultaneously, the Group has developed its
international presence.
The expansion began in the 1960s in Europe,
continuing in the 1980s and ‘90s in the USA,
and then as of the year 2000 in Asia.
In 2012, Roquette acquired three starch
plants in India, thus becoming the leader
in this fast-growing market.
Each year, more than 10% of revenue
is reinvested in the Group’s industrial capital
and in the research and development
to develop new products and new processes.
In its 80 years of existence, the Roquette
Group has become a strategic supplier
in markets for Food, Nutrition and Health,
as well as Plant-based Chemistry.
It is ranked No. 2 in Europe, No. 1 in France
and India, and No. 5 in the world-wide
starch industry.
And tomorrow? Thanks to the strong
attachment of its family shareholders and the
professional commitment of the men
and women who make up the company,
the Roquette Group will continue to strengthen
its activity and remain open to industrial
and commercial opportunities that will allow it
to continue its development on a global scale.
Since its creation, the Roquette Group has
benefited from the professional commitment
and attachment of its employees for its
success and development. The company
culture is strongly marked by this human
dimension.
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Values
> Respect: Respect is a human
and social cement that unites us
and promotes cultural enrichment
> Trust: Trust is the basis of all human
progress. It encourages initiative
and drives the Company
> Solidarity: Solidarity is our ability
to work all together
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Principles of action
> Innovation:
Innovation is the driving force behind
the Company’s development and growth
> Passion for the job:
Europe
+4,800 (including +3,600 in France)
Passion for the job is translated
by the strength of the professional
commitment of the staff
> Commitment to achieve:
Since its establishment, Roquette
has demonstrated its outstanding
ability to take up new challenges
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Asia
North
America
1,300
600
Ethics
These values and principles of action
constitutes the basis of the Group’s
Human Resources policy and processes.
These guide the 8,000 employees in their
activities with regard to the challenges of the
company, in the service of a shared mission:
India
1,300
8,000
employees
> Serving men and women
by offering the best of nature.
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F U N D A M E N T A L S
Illustration
of
an
ear
of
Corn
to understand our Group
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Of fering
the best
of nature
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Of fering the best
of nature
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Roquette’s activity consists in generating value from
all the constituents of its plant-based raw materials:
corn, wheat, potatoes, peas and microalgae.
Roquette is ranked among the 5 leaders
in the world-wide starch industry.
Starch, a plant-based energy source made
Roquette offers an extensive range of more
of glucose molecules, is marketed in its initial
than 700 products and solutions to meet
form or in derivative form: modified starches,
the needs of consumers.
glucose syrups, dextrose, maltodextrins,
polyols... In addition to starch, Roquette
generates value from the proteins, lipids
and fibers extracted from the plant-based
raw materials it processes.
Did you know?
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Favored supplier
of its customers
A company well aware of its responsibilities,
Roquette is active in Food, Nutrition and Health
as well as Plant-based Chemistry.
The Group’s development is based on
its industrial know-how, its expertise,
the motivation of its teams, and its knowledge
of customers’ business needs.
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Roquette products
are to be found everywhere
in the daily life of consumers,
in the kitchen, the bathroom
and children’s bedrooms.
Key
ﬁgure:
700
Products and Solutions
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Partner
of the agricultural world
Roquette establishes long-term relations
of trust with the agricultural world and maintains
privileged contacts with its suppliers.
Each year, the Group generates value from
more than 8 million tons of agricultural raw
materials, or the equivalent of 950,000 hectares
cultivated in the world. The Group’s factories
are located at the heart of agricultural production
zones, which helps to optimize transport in order
to combine economic profitability with
environmental objectives.
The approval process for the suppliers
and the goods delivered to the factory is defined
by the partners, with analyses performed prior
to delivery by the suppliers and then again upon
reception of the raw materials at the factory.
Several thousand analyses are performed each
year on physical, chemical and sanitary criteria.
Food, Nutrition and Health
79%
21%
Plant-based Chemistry
5,000 customers
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T H E
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F U N D A M E N T A L S
Illustration
of
a
Potato
to understand our Group
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Two strategic
sectors
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Two strategic
sectors
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The Roquette Group’s strategy of innovation
is based around two main sectors for the design
of new products and solutions derived from plant-based
resources: Food-Nutrition-Health and Plant-based Chemistry.
> Food,
Nutrition and Health
Food, Nutrition and Health have become
a priority for consumers, public authorities
and the industrial sector.
The Roquette Group has integrated them
into its strategy for many years. Roquette
develops and brings to market nutritional,
functional and innovative ingredients
in order to meet the needs of consumers
and anticipate the expectations of markets.
The Group offers ingredients in the
domains of growth and well-being, oral-dental
hygiene, balanced nutrition, satiety and
the prevention of obesity and diabetes.
From infants to senior citizens, from pregnant
women to athletes, everybody can benefit
from these ingredients.
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Beyond food and nutrition, the Roquette Group
has invested in health. It has become a major
supplier of excipients and active ingredients
used in the composition of pharmaceuticals.
The excipients produced by Roquette cover
a large range of pharmaceutical applications,
notably oral solids (pills, tablets, capsules),
oral liquids (syrups) and innovative delivery
systems (time-release pills). Roquette is also
a leader in injectable products. It fully complies
with all European and international
pharmacological regulations.
Beyond simple ingredients and excipients,
the Roquette Group provides complete
solutions that meet the customer needs,
thanks to its Application Development Centers
and its dedicated multi-disciplinary teams.
Did you know?
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Products and solutions
in the service of Food,
Nutrition and Health:
> Meeting the speciﬁc nutritional
needs of populations
> Offering innovative solutions:
carbohydrates, ﬁbers, proteins, lipids
> Results validated by clinical studies
and renowned experts
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Example:
Through 2 clinical studies involving
more than 200 overweight volunteers,
Roquette was able to prove the benefits
of adding NUTRIOSE® soluble fiber to foods
on the sensation of hunger and satiety over
the short term, and on the reduction of weight
and calorie intake over the medium term,
as well as on certain parameters related
to metabolic syndrome.
Low in calories, NUTRIOSE® provides fiber
and reduces fat content in foods, while
respecting texture and unctuousness.
The major pet food brands trust Roquette
to provide concentrated proteins and fibers,
allowing them to design more-balanced pet foods.
Favored supplier and partner of the world’s major
laboratories, Roquette develops excipients and active
principles for pharmaceuticals. It also offers new
services to assist its customers, from the design
of formulas to industrial development.
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Two strategic
sectors
> Plant-based
Chemistry
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The Group has been involved in plant-based
Today, besides specific functions and
chemistry since 1933, offering products and
properties, plant-based chemistry also offers
solutions to industry:
alternatives responding to environmental
for paper, with native and modified
starches for the improvement of
characteristics such as resistance and
printability of papers; more recently,
with specific starches for the partial
substitution of synthetic polymers,
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resources, reduce greenhouse gas emissions
to fight climate change, develop non-toxic
solutions, etc.
While bolstering its presence on traditional
markets, the Roquette Group also seeks
for detergents, with sorbitol and dextrose
to become a major player in new industrial
for the production of tensio-active foams,
markets, including plastics, paints and
for insulation, with sorbitol for the production
coatings, and water treatment.
of rigid polyurethane foam insulation
To this end, Roquette develops innovative
(for refrigerators and buildings) and recently
solutions such as binders, technical resins,
with derivatives starches based solutions
high-performance polymers and plant-based
to replaceformaldehyde-based binders,
plastics.
for textiles, with modified starches for gluing
thread, the finishing of fabrics and bleaching.
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and regulatory challenges: preserve fossil
Did you know?
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Dedicated
research programs
To respond to demand in the markets for
innovation, Roquette has set three objectives
for its dedicated Plant-based Chemistry
research programs:
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The development of biobased chemical
intermediaries with improved technological
functionalities and properties serving to
synthesize new high-performance materials
that can be used as sustainable alternatives
to existing compounds that pose a health risk,
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The development of new production ways
Isosorbide is a new solution for highperformance plastic that is 100% biobased,
non-toxic and can improve the heat-resistance
of certain plastics.
Succinic acid is an example of an innovative
technology based on a biotechnological process
that is more respectful of the environment.
based on biotechnologies or innovative
chemical processes that are more respectful
of the environment,
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The design of functionalized natural
For recycled paper, starch makes it possible
to increase the quantity of recycled fibers
without negatively affecting the quality
of the paper.
polymers and new biobased materials
with a low environmental footprint.
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Illustration
of
Pea
flower
and
Peas
to understand our Group
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Firmly rooted
in the land
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Firmly rooted in the land
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The Roquette Group has 21 production
units in France, Italy, Spain, the UK,
Germany, Romania, the USA, China,
South Korea and India. The site of Lestrem
(France – Nord-Pas de Calais) is the biggest
bioreﬁnery in Europe.
billion euros in revenue
The Group’s strategy takes into account
The implantation of biorefineries at
the challenges of sustainable development,
the heart of agricultural production
notably by integrating the impact of its activity
zones contributes to the development
on the world around it.
of a sustainable economy by favoring
Thus the production units seek to preserve
the creation of jobs in rural areas.
the natural environment by adopting
an approach based on the control and
management of environmental parameters,
the reduction of waste, the optimization
of processes, the search for new
and “cleaner” technologies and the
reduction of impact related to logistics.
In addition, Roquette has adopted
renewable energy solutions to reduce
the need for fossil fuels at its production
sites and thereby reduce greenhouse
gas emissions (these solutions include
cogeneration, biogas, biomass burners,
geothermal systems, etc).
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Optimal quality
The Group doesn’t only focus on efficiency
but also on quality and environmental responsibility.
All raw materials are tracked from their origin
all the way to the delivery of finished products to
the customers. Certification agencies regularly verify
the compliance of actions in relation to the standards
in application (ISO 9001, ISO 22 000, GMP - B2, etc.).
The same applies for official authorities (Good
Manufacturing Practices for Pharmaceutical Products).
For example, ISO 9001 certification for all Roquette
factories in Europe and ISO 22000 recognition
guarantee the Group’scapacity to provide
irreproachable quality at all times throughout
the food-product chain.
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What is
a bioreﬁnery?
A biorefinery is an integrated industrial
unit transforming biomass to produce
a range of products and solutions
for use in food, human and animal
nutrition and industrial sectors.
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Production
units
10 in Europe
2 in the USA
6 in Asia (excluding India)
3 in India
A sales network
(offices, agents and
distributors) providing
a presence in
more than
100 countries
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Global network of Application
Development Centers
in Europe
in the USA
in Asia (excluding India)
in India
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Illustration
of
Microalgae
to understand our Group
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Roquette:
Research and
Development,
the key
to progress
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Roquette: Research and Development,
the key to progress
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Roquette’s Research & Development
accompanies a strategy of sustainable innovation
to design and develop products, solutions and
technologies that are based on plant-based
resources and that reconcile environmental,
economic and societal objectives.
The Roquette Group has adopted an approach
countries in order to share skill and expertise
of permanent innovation to create new
as well as knowledge of markets.
products and solutions that are ever
In developing its industrial biorefinery model,
more adapted to the needs of consumers.
Roquette’s Research & Development has
The Group devotes the human and
extended the Group’s range of traditional
technological means to achieve its ambition
agricultural raw materials to include two
to become the most innovative company in
promising new channels: peas and microalgae.
its sector.
Since 1951, when it created its first Research
and Development center, Roquette has
launched many bold innovations, in products
and solutions as well as technologies.
Since 2006, the Group has been engaged
in an approach of open innovation to
accelerate the development and marketing
of new products and solutions. Roquette has
entered into partnerships with many industrial
and scientific partners in the public
and private sectors from numerous
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A pioneer from
1933, the Roquette
Group relies on
permanent innovation
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Scientiﬁc and Technological
Research:
recognized expertise
Benefiting from state-of-the-art technologies
and equipment, multi-disciplinary teams
design, test and develop innovative solutions,
products and processes.
> People: experts from multiple
scientiﬁc disciplines.
> Technologies: laboratories, pilots
Key
K
ﬁgures:
and pre-industrial units.
> Partners.
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Application research:
a customer-oriented approach
Thanks to its global network of Application
Development Centers, Roquette makes every
effort to satisfy its customers.
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global network
of Application Development Centers
+300 people dedicated
to Research & Development
Nearly
5,000
patents
> An in-depth knowledge of products used
in its customers’ applications.
> A global range of solutions to meet customer
needs (products, formulation, technology,
training, service).
> An approach providing innovative solutions
to markets.
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EURO PE
FRANCE
Roquette Frères
Corporate Headquarters
1 rue de la Haute Loge
62136 Lestrem - France
Telephone: + 33 3 21 63 36 00
Fax: + 33 3 21 63 38 50
TURKEY
Roquette Tarım ve Gıda
San. ve Tic. Ltd. Sti.
Büyükdere Cad. Harman Sok.
Duran I·ş merkezi No:4 K:3
34394 Levent I·stanbul - Turkey
Telephone: + 90 212 234 83 73
Fax: + 90 212 234 83 74
BELGIUM
Roquette Belgium S.A
475 avenue Louise
1050 Bruxelles - Belgium
Telephone: + 32 (0) 2 714 13 00
DENMARK
Roquette ApS
Gydevang 39-41
3450 Allerød - Denmark
Telephone: + 45 69 663 200
Fax: + 45 69 663 209
FINLAND
Roquette Nordica Oy
Ahventie 4A, 20
FI-02170 Espoo – Finland
Telephone: + 358 9 315 85 700
Fax: + 358 9 8632 113
A M E RI C A
USA
Roquette America Inc.
1417 Exchange street
Keokuk, IA52632-6647 - USA
Telephone: + (319) 524-5757
Fax: + (319) 526-2345
MEXICO
Roquette México S.A. de C.V
Blvd. Bernardo Quintana 9750 of 321
Fracc. Centro sur Queretaro Qro.
CP 76090 - México
Telephone: + 52 44 2229 1270
Fax: + 52 44 2229 1270
GERMANY
Roquette GmbH
Darmstädter Landstrasse 182
60598 Frankfurt - Germany
Telephone: + 49 69 60 91 050
Fax: + 49 69 60 91 05 59
ITALY
Roquette Italia S.p.A
Via Serravalle 26
15063 Cassano Spinola
Alessandria - Italy
Telephone: + 39 0 143 7741
Fax: + 39 0 143 477 295
ROMANIA
Roquette Romania S.A.
Platforma Industrialà
Sud-Vest Nr 5
205200 Calafat – Dolj - Romania
Telephone: + 40 251 333 067
Fax: + 40 251 306 262
SPAIN
Roquette Laisa España, S.A
Avenida Jaime I, S/N.
46450 Benifaió - Valencia - Spain
Telephone: + 34 96 178 98 00
Fax: + 34 96 178 98 10
UNITED KINGDOM
Roquette UK Ltd
9-11 Sallow Road
Weldon Industrial Estate
Corby Northants NN17 5JX
United Kingdom
Telephone: + 44 15 36 273000
Fax: + 44 15 36 263873
RUSSIA
OOO Roquette Rus
17, Vorontsovskaya street
Business Center
“Mosenka Capital Plaza”
109147; Moscow - Russia
Telephone: +7 (495) 775-75-87
Fax: +7 (495) 775-75-88
A SI A
CHINA
Roquette Shanghai
K.Wah Centre Ofﬁce,
Room 501 K. Wah Centre, 1010 Huai Hai
Zhong Road, Shanghai 200031, China
Telephone: + 86 21 2422 9696
Fax: + 86 21 2422 9797
INDIA
Roquette Riddhi Siddhi
12A & 14B, Abhishree Corporate Park,
Opp. Madhurya Restaurant,
Ambli Bopal Road, Ambli
Ahmedabad – 380058, Gujarat - India
Telephone: + 91 79 7102 1000
Fax: + 91 79 7102 1011
JAPAN
Roquette Japan K.K.
Tokyo Head Ofﬁce
2F, KDX Kasuga Building
1-15-15 Nishikata - Bunkyo-Ku
Tokyo 113-0024 - Japan
Telephone: + 81 3 3830 1510
Fax: + 81 3 3830 1525
KOREA
Roquette Korea Ltd.
12th FL., Samheung Yeoksam bldg.,
Teheran-ro 14-gil 5,
Gangnam-gu (735-10 Yeoksam dong),
Kangnam Ku,
Seoul 135-923 - Korea
Telephone: + 82 2 2141 3400
Fax: + 82 2 2141 3482
SINGAPORE
Roquette Singapore Pte. Ltd
298 Tiong Bahru Road,
#14-02/03 Central Plaza,
Singapore 168730 - Singapore
Telephone: + 65 6416 3377
www.roquette.com
R O Q UE TT E W ORL D W I D E
ROQUETTE
Offering the best
of nature
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Offices
An international dimension
Factories
ADC (Application Development Centers)
> Portrait of the Roquette Group
Roquette, a French family-owned group with
an international dimension, processes maize,
wheat, potatoes, peas and microalgae, all renewable
raw materials.
One of the world’s five leading starch manufacturing
businesses, it offers its customers a wide range
of products and solutions in the fields of Food,
Nutrition and Health, as well as Plant-based Chemistry.
N°1 in France and in India
N°2 in Europe
Since its foundation over 80 years ago, its development
has been based on innovation, passion for the job and
commitment to achieve.
Roquette operates in over 100 countries, has a turnover
of 3.4 billion euros and currently employs 8000 people.
Its mission: “Serving women and men by offering the
best of nature”.
N°5 in the global starch industry
8,000 employees in the world
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More than 5,000 customers
3.4 billion euros in revenue
1 global network of Application
Development Centers
Food, Nutrition and Health
Plant-based Chemistry
79%
21 industrial units
Plant-based raw materials:
8 million tons of capacity
Over 700 products: starches, sugars,
polyols, proteins, ﬁbres, lipids
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2 strategic sectors:
21%
HUMAN HEALTH:
Offering the best
of nature
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Roquette offers plant-based solutions for pharmaceuticals
and cosmetics that meet European and international
regulatory requirements.
For 40 years, Roquette has extracted glucose,
the molecule of life.
Produced from natural and renewable
resources (corn and wheat), glucose
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Roquette
and the pharmaceuticals industry
also known as dextrose is a natural
sugar and the main source of energy
in the human body.
It plays an essential role in medicine,
Each day, more than 1.5 million patients
in the world receive glucose from Roquette.
The Group has long invested in the pharmaceuticals
because it is one of the components
sector; it has become a major supplier of excipients
used in the preparation of injectable
and active principles used in the composition
pharmaceuticals and dialysis solutions.
Considered a vital molecule, it is used
in first-aid treatments in situations where
dehydration or acute hypoglycemia is a risk.
An ingredient used for drips, it is characterized
of medicinal drugs.
Roquette is the European leader in injectable solutions.
The pharmaceuticals-cosmetology sector represents
12% of the Group’s revenue.
by its extreme purity, one of the reasons
for its use in medicinal drugs.
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ORAL-DENTAL
HEALTH:
Offering the best
of nature
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Concerned for the health and well-being of consumers,
Roquette studies the nutritional properties of its ingredients
in different domains, including oral-dental health.
Thus the non-cariogenic properties of polyols contained
in chewing-gum help prevent cavities.
Dental cavities are the most common
oral-dental affliction and are considered
a major public health issue. According
to the World Health Organization (WHO),
60 to 90% of school children in the world
have cavities.
Dental plaque, a sticky bacteria film,
can form on teeth after each meal.
These micro-organisms feed on fermentable
sugars, producing acids that can attack tooth
enamel. If the pH of the dental plaque drops
below 5.7, the enamel begins to demineralize.
This is the first stage of tooth decay.
Because they are not metabolized by
the bacteria in the mouth, sorbitol, maltitol,
mannitol and xylitol are non-acidogenic and
therefore non-cariogenic.
Polyols are natural carbohydrates. They are
sugars derived from the transformation
of wheat or corn starch.
Polyols have a low caloric value (2.4 kcal/g
in Europe) or 40% less than sugar, and their
glycemic index is also lower.
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Polyols and Roquette:
an historic relation
Roquette benefits from long experience
in polyols. Roquette was a pioneer
in the industrial development of sorbitol.
Sorbitol was the first polyol to be marketed by
the Group, some 60 years ago. Maltitol, maltitol
syrup, mannitol and xylitol were later added to the range.
Roquette’s research on the properties of polyols has
helped in the development and success of sugarless
chewing-gum. Today, two out of three sugarless
chewing-gums consumed in the world are made
with SweetPearl®, a maltitol from Roquette.
This starch derivative improves the flavor, texture,
freshness and appearance of chewing-gum.
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ROQUETTE-TOOTHFRIENDLY
International:
20 years of cooperation
to support oral-dental health
throughout the world
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ANIMAL NUTRITION:
Offering the best
of nature
Roquette invests in the animal nutrition sector.
Certain ingredients developed from plant-based raw materials
are used by manufacturers of feed for livestock and pets.
Offering its customers more than 60 products,
or 2.5 million tons per year, Roquette gets 20%
of its revenue from the animal nutrition sector.
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The applications of animal nutrition:
Aquaculture feed
Pet food
Animal feed
Special feed: feed for nursing.
Wheat is the only cereal whose protein,
gluten, once rehydrated, can bind and form
a visco-elastic network.
This function is particularly appreciated in food
applications, especially for baking. This protein
additive can also be found in other applications,
such as animal nutrition: pets, aquatic species, etc.
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An example:
salmon feed
Aquaculture faces major economic
and environmental challenges: reduced
availability of fish oil and fish meal, desire to
promote sustainable production, pollution from
salmon feed. To respond to these challenges,
Roquette provides a solution with wheat gluten,
a plant-based alternative protein to flours of animal origin.
By extracting the protein fraction from wheat, Roquette
provides aquaculture a plant-based protein derived
from renewable raw materials. This highly digestible
protein source helps in the near-total assimilation
of the protein fraction, thereby reducing wastes
from salmon feed.
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THE PAPER
INDUSTRY:
Offering the best
of nature
Roquette provides its know-how and its biobased products
to the paper and cardboard industry, with the goal of creating
recyclable and sustainable products.
Did you know?
Paper manufacturing is a complex activity
that relies on a wide range of expertise
to achieve results that integrate economic
and ecological objectives.
With the development of innovative solutions
derived from renewable materials,
the Roquette Group helps its industrial
customers, not only to optimize their finished
products, but also to rationalize the use
of energy and the raw materials necessary
for the production of paper. Its extensive range
of starch-based products, used at key
moments of the manufacturing process,
helps reduce the consumption of starch
and energy.
In the paper industry, starch also provides many
other functions, acting as a binder, thickener,
adhesive, plastifier, moistener or stabilizing
agent for humidity and retention, as well
as a filmogenic agent. Starch is used to coat
papers, to glue layers of paper together
750,000 tons of corn iis usedd
each year in the paper industry.
Some 20 to 30 kg of starch
is used per ton of paper.
to improve consistency, to produce glues
for cardboard, etc.
Roquette improves the dry materials used
in the surfacing of paper, which in turn helps
reduce energy expenditures related to
the manufacturing process.
Thanks to corn and wheat starch, paper manufacturers have replaced up to 60% of petroleum-based
latex with a sustainable biosourced alternative.
This latex was traditionally used in the layering
of paper and cardboard.
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Beyond Food, Nutrition and Health, Roquette works every day
to improve domestic life.
The Group provides innovative solutions in order to respond
to the needs of its customers and to environmental challenges.
Roquette offers its customers plant-based
solutions that can be found everywhere
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An example:
plasterboard
in daily life, notably in the home.
From plasterboard, insulation and concrete
to wall glues and wood pellets for heating,
Roquette offers plantbased components
that are used in these home-construction
Plasterboard is produced from renewable
and biodegradable materials.
These include starch, dextrose, sorbitol and dextrins
made from corn, wheat or potatoes.
During the manufacturing of plasterboard, modified
products at various stages of the
starch is used to provide the material with elasticity,
manufacturing process.
plasticity and viscosity. During the molding process,
they are used as a binding agent to facilitate the mixing
process during the manufacturing of the plasterboard.
When drying the plasterboard, dextrose and sorbitol
are used as humidification and anti-browning agents.
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