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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.
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1965
St Pol sur Ternoise’s plant produced
its first dairy ingredients
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1973
1st industrial ultrafiltration unit in Europe
This innovation in the European dairy industry began at the St Pol sur Ternoise plant.
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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.
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2008-2009
Creation of the subsidiaries Ingredia Inc and Ingredia Pte
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2014
Growth of clinical applications
Production capacities at St Pol sur Ternoise’s plant were increased for the clinical nutrition market.
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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.
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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.