Adisseo

A global company

Continue to feed more and better

Feeding the planet in a high-quality, affordable, safe and sustainable way

Adisseo contributes

to the sustainable growth of the planet

Adisseo is committed

to a fair balance of the value we are creating between our customers, employees and shareholders.

Adisseo delivers

innovative products and services to the feed and food industry

A worldwide  leader in animal nutrition

Adisseo is among the  world leaders in animal nutrition with a turnover of 1.72 billion euros in 2023 and over  4,200 customers.

Our mission is to feed the planet in a high-quality, affordable, safe and sustainable way.

In 2006, we joined the Bluestar Group facilitating our access to the Chinese market, the world’s largest growth market.

Adisseo markets around the world

Over 2730 employees around the world

ADISSEO IN THE WORLD

We innovate, manufacture and market around the world.

Our group has over  2,730 employees across all continents.

Exports constitute over 95 % of our sales.

Asia’s highly promising market which represented 10% of our sales in 2013, represents 24% of our sales in 2022.

  • 1939
    The company Alimentation Equilibrée is founded in Commentry, France by Marcel Lingot, a young graduate from the Ecole Polytechnique, who was passionate about nutrition and was able to successfully synthesise methionine.
  • 1971
    The company is acquired by Rhone-Poulenc, becoming its animal feed Division.
    It is then able to acquire solid scientific expertise which remains its trademark to this day.
  • 2002
    Acquired by the investment fund  CVC and renamed  Adisseo, the company regains its independence and  adopts rigorous business standards.
    It streamlines its nutrition research activities by consolidating them in Commentry, France at the CERN (Centre for Expertise and Research on Nutrition).
  • 2006
    Adisseo joins BlueStar, the leading Chinese company in new chemical materials and specialty chemicals. Through this alliance, it gains strategic support and secures the ideal launching pad to take on the Asian market.
    CINAbio, the biotechnology research and development centre in Toulouse, France is created in the same year.
  • 2013
    Launch of the methionine unit in Nanjing, China.
    Its full integration makes this site unique.
    It includes all intermediate stages of methionine production onsite and has a surface area equivalent to 15 football fields.
  • 2015
    Adisseo is the first international company to be listed on the Shanghai stock exchange.
  • 2016
    Launch of two new specialty products :  Rovabio Advance, first feedase on the market to improve digestibility and  Alterion, a probiotic that limits the use of antibiotics in animal feed.
  • 2017
    Construction of a new production unit in Burgos (Spain). This new facility is dedicated to the production of Rhodimet ADRY +, a new form of methionine powder, obtained from liquid methionine,  launched on the market in 2018.
  • 2018
    Announcement of the project to build a second production unit in Nanjing, China. This new plant has an expected annual capacity of 180 Ktonnes/year of liquid methionine  in order to meet customer needs and Adisseo’s sustainable growth objectives.Adisseo acquires NUTRIAD, global producer of feed additives.
  • 2020
    Logo Calysseo
    Creation of Calysseo, a join-venture with Calysta
    Logo FRAmelco
    Acquisition of FRAmelco
  • 2021

    Creation of SinoChem, merge between SinoChem and ChemChina 

  • 2022
    Start up of a new 180Kt capacity methionine plant in Nanjing
    Start up of Feedkind facility in China
  • 2023


    Nor-Feed acquisition

ADISSEO AT A GLANCE

  • More than

    1,72

    turnover Mds €
     

  •  

    3

    Business Units
     

  •  

    19

    plants
     

  •  

    6

    research centers
     

  •  

    2

    industrial platforms
     

  • more than

    4200

    customers
     

  • more than

    290

    researchers
     

  • more than

    2730

    employees
    on 5 continents