Avebe Solanic potato protein factory officially opened

In her opening speech, Secretary of State Verburg set out her vision of biorefinery and the important role played by AVEBE in that area. The Secretary of State praised AVEBE for the innovative course it set some years ago and which is gaining increasingly clear results. "Solanic fits perfectly within the image of a biobased economy. An image of a green economy in which national and international companies use green raw products to manufacture non-food as well as food applications".

The versatile nature of AVEBE’s proteins makes an innovative contribution to a wide range of food products. Years of intensive research enabled AVEBE to develop a patented technology for isolating high-quality proteins from potatoes.

The factory offers AVEBE and Solanic the opportunity to obtain the vegetable proteins from the residual flows with an economically viable and high-quality method. The different protein fractions, each with their unique functional and nutritional property, will be available to food manufacturers as of today and to the pharmaceutical industry at a later stage.

The unique protein properties afforded AVEBE and Solanic a nomination for the “Fi Most Innovative Food Ingredients Awards 2007”, a much-respected award for innovative projects in the area of food ingredients. The strong interest expressed by food manufacturers in the Solanic proteins confirms AVEBE’s choice to focus on the development of nutrition ingredients of the starch potato that meet the market’s needs - “health &wellness, texture &taste, natural &safe and fun”.