Danish food ingredients firm Danisco has said it plans to make a large investment in the organic growth of its ingredients business by constructing a new pectin plant in Brazil.
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The new plant, to be located in the centre of Brazil’s largest citrus area in the state of Sao Paulo, will mainly use orange peel as a raw material and will enhance Danisco’s production capacity for pectin by 35%.
Danisco said the construction of the plant is based on a need for more capacity, as its pectin plants in Mexico and the Czech Republic are already running to full capacity. The company plans to invest DKK300m (US$49.6m) in the plant, which should be operational in 2007.
“The market for soft drinks is moving towards new types of beverages, e.g. drinking yoghurts and milk/juice drinks. Pectin is very important for stabilising such beverages, and our new plant supports this trend,” said Hans Henrik Hjorth, president of Danisco Textural Ingredients.
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