Arla Foods Ingredients (AFI) is a leading whey ingredient supplier for infant nutrition, baking, dairy, medical applications and sports nutrition. AFI is born as a circular economy ingredient business with an ambition to become the true global leader in value-added milk ingredients. Being a circular economy business, aiming at utilising the entire value stream for high value products demand, a strict approach within quality and food safety combined with highly innovative skills is required.

AFI’s business model is based on the ambition to utilise every component of whey in the most profitable manner, turning all side-streams into profitable and unique end products. Consequently, we need to have constant focus on superior quality control and food safety in the complete value chain. Thus, the synergies in up-scaling, only taking in high quality whey or milk streams with low microbial counts, continuous control of the individual processing steps and strict end product control, a diversified commercial organisation, innovation capabilities including application know-how and continued investments are our tools to stay successful. These tools are also the foundation for AFI’s unique ability to add significant value by realising cross-segment synergies from our raw materials.

This presentation will give examples on how cross-segment synergies from our raw material build value based on implementation of new innovative processing steps.

Finally, our most recent innovation in using milk separation as a disruptive technology to produce high value products both more efficiently and more gently will be introduced.