ABF Ingredients is a division of Associated British Foods focusing on high value ingredients for food and non-food areas. ABFI comprises 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 producing highly customised products into healthy ingredients that include crisp rice, extruded particulates, protein crisps, rice flours and blends, millet and sorghum flour, functional grain-based ingredients, nutritional beverage bases and rice bran.
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 Corp. produces speciality chemicals and blends for the pharmaceutical, clinical nutrition, personal care, flavour and food markets. The specialty products function as bodying agents, dispersants, energy sources, solubilisers, suppository bases, carriers, emollients, lubricants, nutritional supplements, viscosity modifiers, conditioning agents, emulsifiers, moisturisers, specialty bases and wetting agents.
Protient are a leading manufacturer of specialty proteins as well are supplying whey protein concentrates and isolates, lactose and whey crisps
24-Feb-2009 - The sugar and ingredients divisions of Associated British Foods (ABF) are expected to show good growth backed favourable foreign exchange rates when its interim results are announced in April.
06-Feb-2009 - AB Enzymes has become the latest ingredient company to sign an agreement with Barentz which will now become its preferred distributor in Europe for its Baking and Food & Specialties divisions.
15-Jan-2009 - Associated British Foods looks to be dealing well with the economic downturn, especially in its ingredients division which, with the bulk of its business outside the UK, has benefited from the weak pound.
15-Dec-2008 - Associated British Foods (ABF) has announced that it has reached an agreement with Ebro Puleva for the acquisition of its Spanish sugar business, Azucarera Ebro, for €385 million.
21-Nov-2008 - Associated British Foods has reached an agreement in principle to acquire Ebro Puleva’s sugar business for €385m – a deal that would further fortify the world’s second biggest sugar firm.
19-Nov-2008 - US dairy ingredients firm Protient has opened a new research and applications center in Minnesota, which it says will provide key application support to customers.
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 optimism 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.