Infant Nutrition – built on quality and trust Infant Nutrition, AAK’s fastest growing business segment, is built on quality and trust. We have earned the trust of our customers all over the world by meeting their demands, constantly supplying the right products with the right quality and with a strong focus on food safety. Our prime strength is to develop customised solutions with special compositions for different applications. Getting as close as possible to the composition of mother´s milk fat is our ultimate goal and we are close. Throughout our product and application development we maintain a strong focus on our Corporate Social Responsibility. In a proactive way, we work on sustainable solutions. This proactive approach has brought us to the leading position in this segment. Today, we continue to enhance our position as the natural choice for vegetable oils and fats for specialised applications. Our increased capability to build special fat structures that are essential components in the creation of the necessary fat combinations for different formulas has brought us even closer to our customers than before. Our new technological developments have shown the market that we are able to bring value-added solutions Renald Mackintosh President Infant Nutrition and Food Service Continental Europe Product development – supporting sustainable growth 8 | AAK Responsible Growth For more than 100 years, AAK has refined and developed functionality based on natural and sustainable raw materials and processes. In today’s market conditions, we continue to build on this experience, meeting global consumers’ current and future needs for healthy, natural and affordable food that is produced in a sustainable manner. In 2012, we focused our development activities on healthier products with improved nutritional value. We have seen this trend being driven by consumer awareness in all regions, but increasingly also by national and regional regulation. It is a fact that specialised vegetable oils and fats are in many cases excellent alternatives to some of the raw materials that are becoming increasingly scarce and costly, in terms of both health and economics. At the in all aspects. This, combined with the strong continuous sustainability focus, has earned us our customers’ trust. We are convinced that this approach will keep us on the right track for continued strong growth in the future. Karsten Nielsen Chief Technology Officer same time, specific needs in emerging markets are becoming drivers for improvements in shelf life and sensory qualities. At AAK, we invest significant resources in understanding the nature of our raw materials and the capabilities of our present and potential technologies. This effort enables us to develop products close to our customers to meet the specific needs of each market and each customer. In our product development processes, assessing and documenting environmental, health and safety aspects is an integrated part of each project. In this way, we ensure that AAK will continue to stand for functionality based on natural and sustainable raw materials and processes.
AAK Responsible Growth 2012-2013 - UK
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