Targeting New Opportunities in Infant Nutrition
10 Feb 2017 | EPI Ingredients
Rings at the HA in Frankfurt.
I'm here with Matthieu Lacoe from the lighter division of EPI.
Matthew, can you tell me a bit about some of what you're doing in the infant nutrition space because you're launching both a new ingredient under the EPI brand, but also a new, new branded line of infant formula.
Yeah, exactly.
We will have a new, we are showing this show a new ingredients.
Dedicated to infant formula, the D90, it's the demineralized way 90% dedicated to infant formula because the manufacturers have to control the mineral content into their formulas, so.
When they bring other ingredients, you don't have to bring so much minerals.
So when you have the minerals we, it's perfect to control the mineral content into the final formulas.
Can you explain a little bit about the process, about the ionization process?
It's an ion exchange process.
That we have really new in our tool in our factories and it permits to extract it allows to extract the minerals from the products.
OK.
And what about your move into the kind of the branded sort of B2C space?
Yes, we will have a new tool next year.
Efficient next year, who will produce 20,000 tons of infant formula in powders and from powder to the cans, 400 g cans and 900 g cans as a private label.
So we will have, of course, infant formula, but also.
Can imagine to produce adult formulas, clinical nutrition formulas.
You have some examples here.
This is an example for the liquids, our liquid activity.
So you have a ready to drink baby bottle.
It's a really specific product that we produced since a long time in Lea.
We have.
Beverages, high protein beverages, high protein, high content beverages for weight management, sports nutrition, different kinds of nutritional markets, and we also have meal replacements that could be used.
Of course in weight management, so it's really a wide range of finished products in liquid, in powder that we can offer on every nutritional market.
Busy times, busy going on.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
