Nutreco business segments

Nutreco produces a broad range of innovative nutritional products serving the needs of poultry, pigs, ruminants, companion animals, other livestock animals as well as fish. Below are short descriptions on each product group.

Premix and feed specialties

Premixes are a blend of feed additives. There are feed additives for different purposes like nutritional (vitamins, minerals, etc), technological (emulsifiers, antioxidants, etc), sensory (flavours and colourants) or zootechnical (digestion enhancers). Feed specialties are low-volume, high-precision and high-value products. They include special feeds for transitional phases such as gestation and weaning, feeds to complement home-grown cereals, farm minerals, feed ingredients and animal health products.

Fish feed

Fish feed consists of proteins, oil and fats, cereals, vitamins and minerals. These nutrients are ground, mixed and extruded. The extrusion process binds and forms the product, which is subsequently dried. The fish feed is used by fish farms. The fish feed product range can vary from broodstock diets, juvenile feed and grower diets to special (medicated) diets.

Compound feed

Compound feeds are blended feeds of various ingredients to match the nutritional requirement of farmed animals. The main ingredients are macro-ingredients such as grains and soya, and micro-ingredients such as premixes, vitamins and minerals. Other ingredients include natural health components, organic acids, aromatic substances and pigments.

Meat and other

Next to animal and fish nutrition, Nutreco produces and markets poultry and pig meat in Spain. Furthermore, in Canada, Nutreco has poultry hatchery and embryonated egg productions.

Nutreco’s activities in this report are divided into five business segments:
1.    Premix and Feed Specialties
2.    Fish Feed
3.    Compound Feed Europe
4.    Animal Nutrition Canada
5.    Meat and Other

The table below outlines Nutreco’s core activities and presence in 2009: