Roquette Group celebrates 75th birthday
The Roquette Group, a leader in the polyol sector and processor of starch is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.
The Roquette Group, a leader in the polyol sector and processor of starch is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.
The family owned firm has 18 production sites worldwide, employing more than 6,000 people, of which more than half are located in France.
Group turnover in 2007 was in excess of Euro 2.5bn, showing growth of 50% in the past 10 years.
The firm processes six million tonnes of renewable raw materials, such as maize, wheat, potatoes and peas into more than 650 products derived from starch for the human and animal nutrition, paper and board, pharmacy and biochemistry industries.
Keen to assert its independence while at the same time innovating and diversifying, the Roquette Group has developed along two strategic axes: vegetal-based chemistry and nutrition-health, and two programmes have already received subsidies from Oseo Innovation.
The group invests more than €40m each year in r&d and more than 10% of turnover in production facilities and equipment.