Symrise starts chicken ingredient and taste production at Berric, France

Symrise has installed a cooking line and spray-drying tower for chicken ingredients and taste solutions at its Food & Beverage site in Berric, France, now operational. The €27.5 million project, which received funding from the Brittany region and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, expands capacity and supply flexibility. The site will serve customers across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America with powders, broths, fats, pieces, flavors and integrated solutions.

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Market context

Chicken-based ingredients such as broths, powders and fats are widely used to build savory flavor in soups, sauces, ready meals, snacks and pet foods, while taste solutions and flavors help manufacturers reproduce meat-like profiles and mask or balance off-notes in finished products. Demand is driven mainly by packaged food and pet food producers, who value consistent quality, traceable sourcing and reliable regional supply. Cooking lines and spray-drying towers are the core steps that turn raw chicken material into concentrated liquids, dried powders and flavor systems, so added capacity at a single site can ease bottlenecks and shorten supply routes for buyers in the region. Greater regional production options can also reduce dependence on distant plants, which tends to help buyers manage freight exposure and lead times. For buyers, the practical effect is more sourcing choice rather than a direct change in market-wide prices, though new capacity from established flavor and ingredient suppliers can gradually influence competition across savory ingredient categories.

Source: official release on symrise.com. Summary and context written by Market Krystal.