Chr Hansen has developed a new culture for sausages and cooked, cured or fermented meats, which is said to provide improved taste and colour and to work faster.
Chr Hansen is launching a new natural violet colour derived from purple carrot, which is said to bring cost and stability benefits for a broad range of beverages, fruit preparations and confectionery.
Chr. Hansen has launched a new range of cultures to capture the market for a popular Eastern European cheese, encouraging producers to switch to the Direct Vat Set (DVS) system rather than the traditional bulk starter method.
Shifting production closer to the customer and developing products to reduce resource consumption are among the measures introduced by Chr Hansen which it says has improved its environmental record, whilst adding value to the business.
As Chr Hansen marks ten years of activity in Russia, regional director Jacob Paulsen explains how the market has changed and offers some advice for anyone exploring opportunities there today.
The manufacturer of a new range of starter cultures designed to offer white brined soft cheeses such as feta with consistent texture that can meet the needs of both traditional and industrialised producers.
Chr Hansen has introduced a new yoghurt culture specifically designed to meet taste and texture preferences of Middle Eastern consumers, and help producers make cost savings.
Chr Hansen is set to extend a US culture system across Europe to balance demand for bulk production of more complex continental cheeses, which it says can ensure both product consistency and cost efficiency.
Appointments over the last month include a new sales director at Land O’Lakes to grow its national accounts and an award-winning French pastry chef has joined Barry Callebaut’s chocolate academy. Diamond Foods has created a new sales position and Chr...
While many Danish multinationals such as Carlsberg and Lego have opted to shift production abroad to drive their global success, Chr Hansen believes a domestic approach holds the building blocks for world dairy culture domination.
The cottage cheese industry is turning back to direct vat cultures
rather than the cheaper bulk starter method which replaced it as
costs are reduced, according to Chr Hansen.
Chr Hansen is introducing a new natural hibiscus extract to give a
bright red colour to beverages that also comes with a standardised
anthocyanin content.
Symrise has finalized its acquisition of Chr Hansen's flavorings
business in a move that will bring the company broader market
coverage in the US as well as a more diverse ingredients portfolio.
Denmark's Chr. Hansen is to sell of its US-based flavor activities
to Germany's Symrise group in order to focus more on its higher
added-value operations.
Chr Hansen has signed a conditional agreement to buy Swedish Arla
Foods' subsidiary Medipharm, a deal which will strengthen the
Danish firm's probiotic activities.
A probiotic concept for whey drinks from Chr Hansen will help meet
consumer demand for healthy foods and is also claimed by the firm
to be the first of a kind aimed at drinkable whey shots.
A new dairy culture can reduce the fermentation time needed for
milk processing, while meeting demand for lower fat, clean label
dairy products in emerging markets like Eastern Europe, its
manufacturer claims.
Ingredients developer Chr Hansen and Swedish dairy company
Norrmejerier have joined forces to improve and increase the
production of healthy polyphenols for food and drink applications
as well for dietary supplements.
Following the Southampton study that cast safety suspicions over
certain artificial colourings, ingredients firms are redoubling
their development and communication efforts to highlight
alternatives from other sources.
Chr Hansen is expanding its flavour production centre in Denmark to
enhance its product range, efficiency and service to customers and
strengthen its position in the dairy flavourings market in Europe.
Chr Hansen is adding a new culture to its SafePro range aimed at
countering the threat of listeria in foods, this time targeted at
killing listeria in ready-to-eat products.
Chr Hansen has announced the sale of its excipients and coating
division in the US, in a move designed to further focus its
business on its core food ingredients activities.
Chr Hansen regards nutrigenomics as technology to underlie the food
industry's future away from one-size-fits-all nutrition, and has
placed exploration of this area high-up on its R&D agenda.
Chr Hansen has launched a new line of spray-dried dairy flavors in
the US, which the firm claims provide some of its most successful
flavors in a more convenient application form.
Chr Hansen is introducing two new starter cultures for dry and
semi-dry fermented sausages, intended to deliver good flavour even
when products are produced with an eye on health and
sustainability.
Chr Hansen has sold its paprika business activities and production
facilities in Spain and India to allow it to focus on value-added
activities, the company announced on Thursday.
Chr Hansen has announced plans to divest its coatings and
excipients business in order to focus on core activities in
cultures, enzymes, natural colours and flavours.
Chr Hansen's expansion of its existing lactic acid cultures
facility in Pohlheim, Germany is designed to tap the rapidly
growing market for meat cultures.
Chr Hansen chairman of the board of directors Jens Bigum has
announced his intention to step down once the group's annual report
and accounts are formally approved in December.
Chr Hansen has developed a natural cure for meats that can be used
in place of added nitrite, helping food makers to develop
clean-label meat products.
Chr Hansen will get a chance to underline its increasing
involvement in the dairy sector at the upcoming 2006 International
Cheese Technology Exposition.
Chr Hansen's aim of increasing its 50 per cent share in the Italian
meat cultures market depends on constantly improving communication
with customers, according to the firm's Italian meat sector
manager.
Chr Hansen's latest Magical Sensory Tour is designed to bring
innovative products to customers and underline the company's ethos
that ingredients can be fun and imaginative.
A next-generation enzyme solution that increases mozzarella yields
for dairy firms is the first major launch to emerge from
ground-breaking collaboration between top ingredients firms Chr
Hansen and Novozymes.
The firm will focus on new technologies for dairy, beverages and
prepared food at the WWFE expo next month, showing exactly where
the industry is targeting its resources.
Cheese and low-lactose are where it's at in dairy enzyme
development, says a new report, with Chr Hansen and DSM stealing an
early lead in the race to add value to the sector.
New yeast blends to help vintners enhance flavour as they make
wines with ever higher alcohol content have been developed by
international ingredients firm Chr Hansen.
Danish company Chr Hansen has shored up its lead in the dairy
cultures business after doubling capacity at its plant in France,
now said to be the world's largest.
PAI's acquisition of Chr Hansen's ingredients business was finally
closed last week, establishing Chr Hansen Holding - and thus the
Chr. Hansen Group - as a purely pharmaceutical company.
Low growth and higher production costs in the US knock first half
profit for Chr Hansen's ingredients business, that posted a 9 per
cent fall in profit for the first six months of the year.
Russia's dairy, bread and juice sectors are driving a raft of
novelty product innovations aimed at inspiring Russia's functional
food sector, offering opportunities for companies looking for more
value-added products, reports...
Danish ingredients giant Chr Hansen, currently on its 'magical
sensory tour' across Eastern Europe, has unveiled new products in
Russia to inspire local manufacturers, Angela Drujinina
reports.
