AVEBE nominated for Food Valley Award 2009

AVEBE is proud to announce that its ETENIA™ product range has been nominated for the Food Valley Award 2009.

Food Valley annually rewards the most distinguishing innovative and sustainable innovation within Dutch food industry. The objective of the Food Valley Award is to enhance the innovativeness of the food and food-related sector by rewarding promising new initiatives that also advance the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in an exemplary manner.

The winner of the Food Valley Award 2009 will be announced during the Food Valley Conference on 8 October 2009.

ETENIA™ is an exciting range of products that has been specifically developed to meet and delight the latest consumer led texturising and functional needs. Based on truly new and innovative technology AVEBE’s portfolio of products has been devised to offer hydrocolloid like functionality with distinct benefits in creaminess, thickening, gelling and processability across a diverse range of market segments, including dairy, emulsified systems and savoury products.

The ETENIA™ range will significantly enhance a manufacturers’ tool box so products can be developed that meet the latest consumer demands. ETENIA™’s broad functional features have a wide range of applicability and benefits to impact consumer led market drivers: Health &Wellness, Premium &Indulgent, Natural &Safe and Versatile &Convenient.

ETENIA™ has been developed together with DSM Food Specialties. AVEBE and DSM Food Specialties entered into a strategic partnership in 2007. The combination of DSM’s enzyme expertise and AVEBE’s starch knowledge creates new opportunities for the development of innovative creaminess-enhancing products for the food industry, with ETENIA™ as the first result of this partnership.