Roquette acquires Texpall’s plant-based protein facility

Roquette has acquired Texpall’s plant-based protein facility in the Netherlands.

The acquisition is expected to further enhance Roquette’s capabilities, while reinforcing its position in the plant-based proteins sector in food, nutrition and health markets.

Roquette’s pea and new protein business line vice-president Pascal Leroy said: “This new asset is a great opportunity for Roquette to accelerate the development of its textured pulse proteins.

“It represents an important step forward in the implementation of our strategy in plant-based proteins to better adapt our offer to a booming plant-based food market.

“We are extremely confident in the innovation capabilities of this new facility and we look forward to working with the talented local teams to continue driving plant-based food innovation.”

With the acquisition, Roquette intends to expand its range of textured plant-based ingredients for the global meat alternatives market.

Texpall’s facility is engaged in the extrusion of plant-based proteins, especially pulse proteins.

Roquette global product line manager Marion Garel said: “This extrusion unit will enable to expand different mixtures from plant-based raw materials to form different shapes and high-quality ingredients. This will create new opportunities for our customers.”

In addition, the facility is expected to support Roquette’s offering of textured pea proteins known as Nutralys T65M and Nutralys T70S, which are offered as alternative solutions to soy and wheat-based proteins in the meat substitute market.