On 28 February, Lesaffre celebrated the grand opening of its new yeast plant, built on a 9.8 hectare land in Malang, East Java, as part of its goal to be closer to its customers in the Asia Pacific region.
The new plant is dedicated towards the production of compressed and dry yeast, and will supply baking yeast to its Indonesian and ASEAN customers.
A new entity, PT Lesaffre Sari Nusa will operate the plant and is formed via partnership between Lesaffre and its long-term partner, PT Citra Bonang.
Lesaffre has been commercially active in Indonesia for over 40 years. PT Saf Indonusa, Lesaffre’s first Indonesian subsidiary was incorporated in 2000 and operated its baking ingredients blending plant in Surabaya, Jakarta head office and 4 Baking CenterTM and sales offices in Jakarta, Medan, Semarang, Surabaya. The new plant complements the already active blending plant for baking ingredients in the Surabaya region.
In line with Lesaffre’s pro-active support of the environment, the new plant integrates a complete post-production workshop to valorise the residual part of the substrates: once production of yeast has been completed, the fermentation wort is further processed into a range of co-products used as fertilizers and for animal feed.
Timothé Dupont, General Manager of Lesaffre Breadmaking Asia Pacific Region said, “By combining state-of the art technologies and Lesaffre industrial know-how of excellence on this new site, we are able to provide best quality yeast to our markets in Indonesia and throughout the Asia Pacific region where demand is growing. This new factory allows Lesaffre to better than ever accompany its clients in their growth, with an enhanced proximity.”
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