On Thursday, September twenty first, 2023, Lallemand celebrated a vital milestone: 100 years of yeast manufacturing in its manufacturing plant on rue Préfontaine, Montreal. Colleagues from everywhere in the international, purchasers, companions, and native politicians joined corporate executives for the birthday party of this essential landmark.
“A 100 years! This can be a nice alternative to pay tribute to our supportive trade companions, valued consumers and our gifted workers who’ve all performed an element in our good fortune tale,” said Antoine Chagnon, President and CEO of Lallemand. “I lift my glass to those that constructed this manufacturing unit, firstly devoted to baker’s yeast for the native marketplace, and the visionaries who made it a launching platform for the worldwide corporate that Lallemand has develop into these days” he concluded. Mr. Chagnon took the helm of the corporate in 2015, succeeding his father Jean, and grand-father Roland sooner than him.
However its first rate age of 100 years, Lallemand’s Préfontaine plant has a vibrant and wealthy long term forward, because of the possibility of microbes to assist addressing one of the maximum urgent problems with our instances.
“We’re all going through new demanding situations: local weather trade and feeding all of the planet are at the menu for the approaching many years, and leading edge microorganisms can play a key position in going through them. Amongst others, they are able to assist us scale back carbon emissions, decrease using antibiotics and chemical preservatives, and advertise using microbial fertilizers or organic crop coverage merchandise that scale back using fossil merchandise,” mentioned Antoine Chagnon. “We also are operating at the subsequent technology of probiotics to advertise additional well being advantages,” he added.
Lallemand has now a various and international presence in 50 international locations over 5 continents, employs greater than 5000 workers and operates 48 manufacturing amenities, together with 24 yeast and 10 micro organism crops. The corporate develops, produces, and markets yeast, micro organism, fungi, and derivatives of those microorganisms for packages in baking, wine, beer, distilled spirits, gas ethanol, animal and human diet, pharmaceutical business, and different meals and agricultural industries.
September 25, 2023 – Lallemand