Cargill Opens Flavor Plant in China

AMSTERDAMCargill opened a dedicated flavor manufacturing plant in Pinghu, China, which will enable Cargill to serve customers with comprehensive solutions ranging from flavor creation for beverage, dairy, confectionery and bakery applications, to manufacturing and supply.

The new plant was built on the same site as Cargills existing starches and sweeteners plant, enabling customers to benefit from synergies in development and production and to make maximum use of Cargills wide-ranging expertise. Together with its production facility in Bangalore, India,  and application centers in Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur and Bangalore, the Chinese site forms the base from which Cargill will serve the growing Asian market.

This latest venture demonstrates our commitment to being a worldwide partner for our flavors customers as we now have one or more manufacturing sites in each regional market, said Peter Michielsen, head of Cargill Flavor Systems. Crucially, the plant will enable us to react even faster to the needs of our customers, whether local Chinese manufacturers, or global customers with sites in China. It also strengthens our worldwide flavor network where local knowledge becomes global knowledge, especially in terms of sharing expertise or spotting the rise and fall of consumer trends. At Pinghu, in particular, we will apply our knowledge in connecting base raw materials with specialty ingredients such as flavors.