FrieslandCampina Domo and Glycosyn partner for new infant nutrition ingredients

The parties have signed a technology and partnership agreement.

Jan-Willem ter Avest, FrieslandCampina director corporate media relations, told DairyReporter “Glycosyn has developed a patented technology for the production of oligosaccharides from lactose. FrieslandCampina Domo will produce and introduce these new ingredients onto the global market.”​

The new products, he said, “​which are being developed from the Glycosyn partnership will become part of the range of products of FrieslandCampina Domo.”​

The market for the new ingredients is infant and specialized nutrition, he told DR.

Meeting global demands

John R Garrett, co-CEO at Glycosyn, said, “Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs) are specialized carbohydrates which are naturally prevalent in mother’s milk. Through our expertise and know-how we have developed technologies which will complement FrieslandCampina’s extensive history and knowledge of infant nutrition ingredients, products and markets.”​

ter Avest told DR, “We have entered this partnership because scientifically HMOs look very promising. There is a lot of research going on, but we are limited to talk about the benefits because we need and want to comply with the strict legislation in this area.”​

Tine Snels, executive director of FrieslandCampina Ingredients added, “Glycosyn helps us to take a very exciting step towards developing the next generation of infant nutrition and to strengthen our position as a market leader in infant nutrition ingredients. ​

“We are doing this to meet the growing global demand for high-quality ingredients. Our cooperation is a perfect example of co-creation. The first quantities for trials will be available in the current year.” ​

Range of products

FrieslandCampina Domo, which has offices in the Netherlands, Singapore, China, the US and Brazil, is part of FrieslandCampina Ingredients, a worldwide producer of a wide range of ingredients for the infant-, medical- and cell-nutrition markets.

Its range of products consists of whey protein concentrates, demineralized whey products, galacto-oligosaccharides, lactose, hydrolysates, encapsulated nutritional oils and the emerging products that are being developed from the Glycosyn partnership.