Bio-valorization

Our Bio-valorization segment, which covers Tessenderlo Group’s activities in animal by-product processing, consists of PB Leiner (production, trading and sale of gelatin and collagen peptides) and Akiolis (rendering, production, trading and sale of proteins and fats).

Production locations

PB Leiner: 3 production plants in Europe (Belgium, Germany, UK), 2 in China and 3 in the Americas (US, Argentina, Brazil).

Akiolis: 3 production plants, 28 collection centers (C1/C2 categories), and 8 production plants, 20 collection centers (C3 category & food grade) in France. 1 production plant recently acquired in Spain (C2/C3 category) still to be commissioned.

Core markets

Food, pharma, health & nutrition, pet food, agriculture, aqua feed, animal feed, energy, biodiesel, oleo-chemistry, and sanitary services.

Area of activity

Bio-resources, agriculture

Business drivers

Growing demand for bio-based environmentally friendly offerings in feed, food, health & nutrition, fertilization, energy, and pharmaceutical and technical applications.
Improved standards of living result in increased protein demand.
Increased need for sanitary procedures to protect the food chain and the health of animals dedicated to human food.

Strategic focus

PB Leiner

To focus on customer-driven organization and new product development.
To optimize efficiencies on existing assets.
To vigorously focus on realizing manufacturing excellence and the improved valorization of access to raw materials.
To increase the focus on health & nutrition(collagen peptides) and pharma.
Valorization of side streams (fat, PSR, and DCP).
Further securing raw material supply (via a joint venture involving our teams in South America and China).

Akiolis

To improve the valorization of finished products in pet food, aquaculture, and organic fertilizer markets.
To better valorize our fats.
To strengthen our position in our core business on sourcing markets by pushing long-term and quality-based contracts.
To focus on licensing and obtaining patents for our technologies.
To focus on customer relationships and new product development.
To improve efficiency in existing plants and logistics.
To focus on sanitary services for breeders, and on quality control for slaughterhouses and butchers.