histoire-groupe-ingredia-dairy

1949

The cooperative group « La Prospérité Fermière » was created.

The cooperative was founded by milk producers from Northern France (“Pas de Calais” region) who then combined resources and pooled production in order to develop a tool to process milk and increase its value.
  • 1965

    St Pol sur Ternoise’s plant produced

    its first dairy ingredients
PLAN USINE

1973

1st industrial ultrafiltration unit in Europe

This innovation in the European dairy industry began at the St Pol sur Ternoise plant.
  • 1988

    Cremo, the first partnership was born.

    The Swiss company would start being one of the first micellar casein producers in Europe.
  • 1991

    Creation of Ingredia SA,

    the cooperative group invests in administrative offices and laboratories in Arras to then expand its sales network throughout the world.
  • 2004

    New industrial partnership

    with Australian company Tatura, thereby increasing the group’s overall production capacity.

    Lactium


    New industrial unit for the production of bioactives: Lactium for stress management.
  • 2008-2009

    Creation of the subsidiaries Ingredia Inc and Ingredia Pte

innovation

2014

Growth of clinical applications

Production capacities at St Pol sur Ternoise’s plant were increased for the clinical nutrition market.
  • 2015

    Lactoferrin

    First lactoferrin production runs with new, non-denaturing, extraction process.
  • 2016

    Innovative proteins

    A new production line is dedicated to innovative proteins in our St Pol sur Ternoise Plant.
LOGOTYPE VIA LACTA

2017

Launch of Via Lacta,

environmentally responsible initiative through separate differentiating milk collection, milk from grass-fed cows, organic milk collection, progress plan for the reduction of environmental impacts.
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