Commercial Partners
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2023 Commercial Partners
AGROLAB GROUP
AGROLAB GROUP is a laboratory group operating throughout Europe, with roughly 2100 employees at more than 25 branch offices. In terms of value for money, AGROLAB is proud to be one of the European market leaders in the areas of agricultural, environmental, water, food and feed analysis.
Our values - your gain
Our aim to deliver timely and dependable results is unparalleled.
Driven by quality
We are proud of the professional quality of our analytical processes - we strive for continuous improvement.
Cost consciousness
Our modesty means we always keep a watchful eye on costs - another reason why in Europe we are the market leader in delivering value for money.
Fairness
We work with customers on equal terms: openly, fairly and honestly.
AGROLAB facts and figures
Five divisions, offering agricultural, environmental, water, food and feed analysis.
2,100 employees as of 2022
More than 25 European affiliates, serving the whole of Europe.
Founded in 1986, AGROLAB started with just three members of staff.
AGROLAB GROUP headquarters: Landshut, Lower Bavaria
Paul Wimmer as Managing Director of the AGROLAB GROUP
250,000: the number of results generated every day (individual parameters)
Ashbury
Ashbury is a leading-edge regulatory consultancy. We make global food compliance easy.
Since 2011, we’ve partnered with renowned brands and retailers to manage their product and labelling compliance for over 100,000 products and tackle complex regulatory challenges across more than 90 global markets.
Our powerful team of experts is dedicated to keeping your brand and consumers safe. Working as extension of your technical team, we support with the burden of food labelling compliance, providing flexible support to eliminate bottlenecks and accelerate your speed to market.
Biometic
Biometic is founded in 2012 with the idea of employing digital image processing and proprietary X-ray technology in the food industry.
As the food spin-off of the Italian company Microtec, the global market leader in measuring systems and development of automated processes for the wood industry, Biometic has benefited from Microtec's 40 years long experience and know-how in innovative high-speed in-line product scanning and process optimization.
Biometic offers customized solutions made with cutting-edge technologies that involve in-line computed tomography and artificial intelligence. Using these technologies, the company has developed solutions to problems in the food industry that would otherwise be difficult to solve. One of these is Mito, the first and only inline 3D X-ray inspection solution that enables real-time control of each product and optimization of the whole production and process stream.
By integrating computed tomography and the latest image processing algorithms, Biometic is helping food companies guarantee consumer safety and assure a constant quality of the products they distribute as well as the efficiency of their production lines.
BSI
We believe the world should be supplied quality food that is both safe and sustainable. We support the industry with challenges including food safety, food security, sustainability, energy, water, business risk and corporate social responsibility issues across the entire food and beverage supply chain. We provide this support with our expertise in auditing, certification, training, assessment and supply chain solutions, providing assurance against ISO and Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) recognized standards. We help assure your customers confidence and trust, and enable you to manage the risks and opportunities associated with your products, processes, people and respective supply chains.
CER Groupe
CER Groupe is a Belgian Based Research Centre supporting human and veterinary health by providing products, research and analytical services to companies active in the biotech, medtech, pharma, food and agrotech fields. Our integrated discovery and development platform is focused on non-clinical development, biomanufacturing and food & feed testing services.
CER Groupe strength relies on its long experience accumulated over the 45+ past years of services to the scientific community. Our 200 collaborators, 15000sqm of facilities and our comprehensive analytical platforms (including immunomonitoring, proteomic, metabolomic, in vitro & in vivo real-time imaging, …) are dedicated to offer flexible, tailored and integrated solutions, from hit discovery to lead toxicity evaluation and routine services.
As National Reference Laboratory for allergens, veterinary drug residues and plants, marine and mycotoxins, we are recognized experts in food safety analytics. This asset combined with our quality systems (ISO9001, ISO17025 and GLP) ensure the highest standards are applied when characterizing biological effects of novel and functional foods.
Christeyns
Christeyns is a prominent B2B player active in the international chemicals and detergents market. The company was established in 1946 in Ghent, where its headquarters are still located. With its extensive product range, Christeyns serves customers in the industrial, laundry, lodging, food retail, food processing and health care sectors. Partly thanks to its sustained focus on service and partnership, the company developed into a leading group, with offices in over 30 countries. In total, Christeyns employs more than 900 people worldwide. Over the past decade, the turnover has increased by an average of 17 percent annually, reaching a consolidated total of 320 million Euros.
Dassault Systemes
Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, is a catalyst for human progress. We provide business and people with collaborative virtual environments to imagine sustainable innovations. By creating 'virtual twin experiences’ of the real world with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, our customers push the boundaries of innovation, learning and production.
iComplai
iComplai is an early warning system for early identification and prediction of risks in the food supply chain. Using AI-powered capabilities, the system informs users on potential risks regarding their raw materials and suppliers, helping them realize significant time and cost benefits as well as avoid recalls.
Through special AI modules like pesticide prediction and food fraud risk alarm, iComplai machine learning system recognizes patterns in the data and makes risk predictions once new data arrives. These predictions enable food manufacturers to take preventive measures and reduce risk of recalls.
With a special view on food fraud risks, organizations can generate the risk portfolio for their raw materials within seconds and utilize it for various certification audits.
Through the iComplai platform users can check the quality of their suppliers, monitor their volumes and the associated product warnings. The early warning platform allows you to rank the different suppliers according to their delivery quality and be alerted if any issue is detected with your suppliers.
The iComplai early warning system data can be integrated with any internal IT applications of customers utilizing various technologies like API connection.
Ilsi Europe
Kiwa
We are Kiwa. We test, inspect and certify to create trust around the world. Kiwa employs over 10,000 people in over 35 countries, in Europe, Asia, the Americas and Oceania. We have a wide portfolio of schemes and standards to serve the Food, Feed and Farm sector as a one-stop-shop. With our expertise in the field of food safety, feed, organic, 2nd party, sustainability & CSR our aim is to support your business as a partner for progress in farming, producing, trading or handling high-quality and safe products, in which your customers can rely on and trust. Working with you, we design, apply, audit and monitor protocols that provide assurance throughout the entire international feed and food supply chain – from farm to fork.
LRQA
Commitment to excellence in the food sector
At LRQA, we combine food sector expertise, a robust product portfolio, and industry-leading technologies to deliver services that reduce risk and add value throughout the supply chain, whilst providing sector-leading insights and fresh thinking that protect and support businesses today and tomorrow.
About LRQA
Bringing together unrivalled expertise in certification, brand assurance and training, LRQA is one of the world’s leading providers of food safety and assurance solutions. Working together with farms, fisheries, food manufacturers, restaurants, hotels, and global retailers, we help manage food safety and sustainability risks throughout supply chains and have become a leading global assurance provider.
We’re proud of our heritage, but it’s who we are today that really matters because that’s what shapes how we partner with our clients tomorrow. By combining strong values, decades of experience in risk management and mitigation and a keen focus on the future, we’re here to support our clients as they build safer, more secure, more sustainable businesses.
From independent auditing, certification, and training; to technical advisory services; to real-time assurance technology; to data-driven supply chain transformation, our innovative end-to-end solutions help our clients negotiate a rapidly changing risk landscape – making sure they’re shaping their own future, rather than letting it shape them.
NEMIS Technologies AG
NEMIS Technologies AG, one of the Top 15 Swiss Biotech Startups (2021), was founded in 2018 by experienced scientists and business builders. We leverage the AquaSpark™ technology to address the challenges of providing safe food for globally growing demand. NEMIS Technologies specialises in developing simple, safe, and on-site pathogen detection solutions across a wide range of applications in the food industry.
The N-Light™ environmental monitoring series can be used anywhere by anyone, empowering food producers to take back control over their quality management processes. The availability of this precise and affordable method allows for more extensive and frequent screening, providing critical information to detect and eliminate potential contamination hotspots after only 24 hours.
The current product portfolio holds rapid tests for Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella Risk (both AOAC-certified), and E.coli.
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Quentin
Do you struggle to identify the root cause of your plant's problems and act on them? Are repetitive tasks in your daily operations costing you time and money? Does the road towards process optimization and digitalization often feel like a bumpy one?
Well, someone is here to help – Quentin. Quentin’s vision of the world is one in which you can daily improve the performance of your manufacturing operations thanks to fully transparent and actionable processes.
To achieve this, Quentin assesses your most compelling manufacturing challenges and the current digitalization stage of your plant and then leverages data collection and analysis from the machines on the production floor to deliver a tailored solution that meets your business needs and that each worker in the plant can handle daily with confidence.
With Quentin at your side, you and your staff can finally make sense of and extract value out of the data from the plant to identify and solve production issues that burden you the most.
Choose to see results, choose Quentin.
Safefood 360°
Safefood 360° is the food safety, quality and compliance management software for the forward thinking company. Designed by food safety experts, Safefood 360° offers a comprehensive suite of software solutions specifically designed to help food companies maintain compliance and drive oversight of operations.
With over 35 purpose-built modules, eliminate non-value added time and save resources by ensuring there is one environment for all compliance activity, data, and history that is easily searchable, retrievable and actionable.
The Food Safety Management Solution, created from the requirements of SQFI, BRCGS, ISO, FSSC, FSMA, the Safe Food for Canadians Act and other global standards to allow quality and technical managers to focus on their day-to-day tasks, includes modules for HAACP, PCP and Food Safety Plans as well as a PRP Centre.
The Supplier Quality Management Solution allows for complete global oversight so you can collaborate and communicate directly with all suppliers in one central hub. Signature features include: supplier audits, a supplier portal, supplier chain intelligence and a performance review.
Additionally, Safefood 360° offers RISK, our new standalone solution, which provides entry level, line-of-sight risk analysis using big data sources to gain a clear measure of risk in the supply chain, scan for potential risk trends, and provide valuable input into the development of local HACCP and PCP plans.
Safefood 360° - putting intelligence in your hands.
TraceGains
TraceGains is evolving CPG supply chain agility through an innovative networked ingredient marketplace. This modern-day business ecosystem connects people and companies with the vital information surrounding ingredients, finished goods, manufacturers, and packaging. Your current, relevant, and contextual information is published once, assigned permissions, and automatically delivered to users precisely when, where, and how needed. Information is secure and easily shared inside or outside the network with authorized partners, stakeholders or other connected operating systems.
For 15 years, TraceGains has been vital in helping global brands gain control over compliance, increase product development efficiencies, and effectively collaborate across all functional relationships in your supply chain. Nearly 20,000 companies strong, the world’s only networked ingredient marketplace delivers the future agility, resilience, and shared accountability needed to master the dynamics of the modern supply chain.
Veeva Systems
Founded in 2007, Veeva NYSE (VEEV), is a global provider of cloud-based software solutions. We help quality, regulatory and commercial teams in the cosmetics, consumer goods, and chemical industries unify disconnected processes, documents and data. In doing so, we help our customers eliminate inefficiencies so they can bring innovative, high quality products to market faster without compromising compliance. Veeva is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Zaptic
Zaptic provides a connected worker platform for job instruction and collaboration for frontline teams, and a no-code toolkit designed to accelerate digital transformation of daily operations.
Our mission is to improve the lives of frontline workers, by supporting safety, autonomy, productivity and continuous learning in frontline jobs.
Using Zaptic, global manufacturing and service organisations are closing an industry 4.0 blindspot by moving daily operations out of spreadsheets, paper and tribal knowledge.
Companies such as Carlsberg, Hovis, Celgard, Solenis and Monster are using zaptic to not only unlock measurable improvements in productivity, quality and safety, but also enable a smooth transfer of knowledge between the retiring and new generation of workers to improve market resiliency.