Asiros acquires key facility for berry and fruit processing

The Danish biotech company Asiros has acquired a fruit and berry concentrate and extract processing facility from the Swedish Nordic Food Group.

For a number of years, this Danish plant has supplied high quality juices and concentrates to the global food industry. The acquisition, now named Asiros Nordic, secures Asiros’ access to top quality berry concentrates and extracts used in the company’s technically advanced BerryShield berry powders and bioactive finished products for the global market.

Asiros Nordic will continue the production of high quality products such as organic blue berry concentrate and elderberry flower extract as well as customised products such as ginger and rhubarb juice to service existing and new customers.

The high level of technical know-how of the mother company will create important synergies in the development of new Asiros Nordic products including a series of vegetable concentrates with improved stability.

Morten Weidner, CEO of Asiros, comments: 'With this strategically important plant acquisition, we are now able to control the whole production chain and quality from field to final product. This is extremely important as it empowers us to obtain our prime goal: to place Nordic Quality in processed fruit and berry products on the global map and become the global leading manufacturer of berry powders and fruit and vegetable concentrates, where taste and colour or bioactivity is shielded against break down.'

'By combining our analytical power and deep scientific understanding of the content of berries with the production process, we will place Asiros Nordic in the frontline of high quality natural product processing, which will benefit not only our own product lines — BerryShield and MitoActive — but all customers using our production services,' he added.

The production facility in Sorø is the only plant of its kind in Denmark able to contract manufacture both large and smaller quantities of conventional as well as organic fruit, berry and vegetable concentrates, elderberry flower extracts and specialised products. The production and service of contracts continue unchanged, and the staff retain their jobs.