Nutriera and Lesaffre signed a Joint R&D Strategic Cooperation Agreement
On the morning of 10th April, 2020, the Joint R&D Strategic Cooperation Agreement Signing Ceremony between Guangdong Nutriera Group (hereinafter referred to as Nutriera) and Phileo By Lesaffre (hereinafter referred to as Lesaffre) was grandly held at the headquarters of Nutriera. President Dr. Yong Yang and Vice President Dr. Song Zhang of Nutriera and Phileo China Director Mr. Martin Liu and China Aqua Business Manager Kenny Lin led their senior executive team members to attend the signing ceremony respectively.
Vice President of Nutriera Dr. Song Zhang and Phileo China Director Mr. Martin Liu were signing the agreement.
The Joint R&D Strategic Cooperation Agreement Signing Ceremony
Lesaffre has 167 years of professional technical experience in the field of yeast, nutrition and health, which is the largest yeast manufacturer in the world. In addition, Lesaffre has been committed to the continuous R&D innovation for products and technologies, and its R&D network covers the whole world. Nutriera is the global leading enterprise for aquatic premix, its products and services have been distributed to over 20 major aquaculture countries of the world, which enjoy a very good reputation in the aquaculture industry. In Nutriera, there are lots of highly-educated professional R&D talents, who help build up strong R&D and innovative strength. And they have studied and worked in the aquaculture industry for nearly 20 years. Lesaffre and Nutriera are the leading enterprises in their respective field. What’s more, both of their technical and innovative concepts are highly consistent with the global thinking. Therefore, the cooperation of both parties will be a strong alliance and a combination of advantages.
The group photo of partial participants
From left to right: R&D Director of Nutriera Mr. Yaohua Wang, Technical General Manager of Dynaqua (the subsidiary of Nutriera) Mr. Zhonghua He, Vice President of Nutriera Dr. Song Zhang, Phileo China Director Mr. Martin Liu, President of Nutriera Dr. Yong Yang, Phileo China Aqua Business Manager Mr. Kenny Lin and Phileo China Swine Business Manager Mr. Yiquan Chen.
The first phase of the R&D strategic cooperation between the two parties will be conducted in 2020-2022. Lesaffre will be responsible for the R&D expenditure, and Nutriera will implement the work in the aspects of R&D experiments, data analysis and marketing performance tracking through its powerful technical R&D platform and talents of aquaculture industry. At the same time, Nutriera R&D Center will maintain close contact with Lesaffre R&D Center to fully integrate the R&D resources of both sides and make full use of the advantages of each other. Both parties will focus on the pain points of aquaculture and technical innovation trend, including functional feeds, raw materials replacements, functional additives, animal health products to continuously strengthen the communication of R&D innovative projects and to achieve win-win cooperation.
The newly-built Nutriera R&D Center
Aquatic experimental base of Nutriera (Zhuhai, China)
Nutriera attached great importance to the technology R&D and innovation at the early stage of its establishment. It has set up long term scientific research cooperation relationships with over 10 well-known universities both at home and abroad, which including Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, CAFS, Sun Yat-Sen University, Huazhong Agricultural University, South China Agricultural University and Guangdong Ocean University in China as well as Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aquaculture Department of Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, and Asian Institute of Technology. Besides, Nutriera has built its own modernized experimental base in Zhuhai, China and established more than 10 joint R&D bases with customers of both domestic cities and overseas countries, such as Nantong of Jiangsu province, Wuhan of Hubei province, Nanchang of Jiangxi province, Huzhou of Zhejiang province, Taishan of Guangdong province and Nanning of Guangxi province in China, Hyderabad of India, Yangon of Myanmar, Dhaka of Bangladesh and Manila of the Philippines.
The newly-built Nutriera R&D Center in Zhuhai Industrial Park covers an area of 2,400 square meters. It is equipped with several technical centers, including aquaculture nutrition and farming, microecology, aquaculture seedling and aquatic food, which is a sign that Nutriera has set up the first-class R&D platform of aquaculture industry. In the future, Nutriera will increase the investment in the aspects of facilities, funds and researchers in technology and product R&D, and constantly improve the technical R&D system of the whole aquaculture chain involving seedling, farming, feeds and aquatic products processing. Thus, to achieve the mission of leading the healthy development of aquaculture and guarantee food nutrition & safety.
Further details
Introduction of Phileo By Lesaffre
Lesaffre was established in 1853, it is a family business whose headquarters located in the North of France. So far, it has had 167 years of professional technical experience in yeast field. It is a leading enterprise in the global yeast industry, and committed to provide the quality products like baking, nutrition and health, condiment as well as relevant solutions for worldwide customers. There are more than 1 billion people who eat the food produced by Lesaffre every day globally. Just as the saying goes, “For every 3 breads in the world, one will use the yeast of Lesaffre”. At present, Lesaffre has more than 100 subsidiaries and 9,300 employees in over 40 countries around the world. Its annual sales volume is nearly 2 billion euros, and has developed into a multi-national group with multi-culture.
The China headquarters of Lesaffre is located in Shanghai. Currently, it has 5 subsidiaries, 4 baking centers and 2 large-scale modern factories. The 6th subsidiary is under construction.
R&D innovation has been the core of development strategy for Lesaffre all the time. Lesaffre has set up the nutrition and health division in particular, with a total of over 180 R&D researchers. It has outstanding R&D and innovation capacities in biology and application development, which has collaborated with more than 60 worldwide universities and research centers to develop high quality and efficient innovative products, so as to provide a full range of nutritional solutions for customers.
