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ABF Ingredients is a division of Associated British Foods focusing on high value ingredients for food and non-food areas. Comprising of a range of ingredient companies including;
AB Enzymes are one of the world's oldest Enzyme companies and its products include food enzymes for bakery products and beverages through to enzymes for feed and products for textile technology and the pulp/paper industry.
PGP International is a leading specialty ingredient supplier for crisp rice, extruded ingredients, rice flours and blends, soy protein, crisp rice, sweet rice and a line of functional grain-based ingredients.
Ohly offers a wide range of products such as yeast extracts, inactive dry yeast, special vitamin yeast, yeast cell wall derivatives, medical yeast and autolysed yeast, based on bakers and/or Torula yeast, as well as wine yeast, specialty powders and starter cultures.
ABITEC Corporation and ABITEC Limited manufacture distilled emulsifiers, datem esters and medium chain triglycerides, as well as a wide range of Propylene Glycol, Glycerol and Structured Glycerol Esters; specialty alkoxylates, non-ionics, quaternaries and custom blends
Protient is a major player in the US providing whey protein isolates, soy protein isolates, whey crisp and milk protein isolates among others.
26-Sep-2008 - The European Commission cleared the acquisition of the baker’s yeast division of Gilde Bakery Ingredients by Associated British Foods on Tuesday following ABF’s acceptance of conditions to ensure that sufficient market competition is retained.
15-Sep-2008 - AB Enzymes is to pass on some of the increased costs of raw materials, energy and overheads, upping the price of its baking, food and specialty enzymes by up to 10 per cent.
08-Sep-2008 - While there has been more optimisms hovering over the post-reform EU sugar industry this year, ABF cites the new regime as having an on-going effect on the profits of its sugar division.
07-Aug-2008 - Minnesota-based Protient has said it will expand its whey protein isolate (WPI) capacity in order to meet increased customer demand for the ingredient.