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==Products and services== |
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Revision as of 08:33, 8 November 2016
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| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Service provider |
| Founded | 1975 as RETHMANN TBA GmbH & Co. KG |
| Headquarters | Selm, Germany |
Area served | Europe |
Key people | Reinhard Lohmann, Chairman of Supervisory Board Kurt Stoffel, Board Member |
| Revenue | 700 Mio. EUR (2009) |
Number of employees | 3,900 (31 December 2009) |
| Website | SARIA Bio-Industries |
SARIA Bio-Industries AG & Co. KG is a company group based in Selm (Westphalia / Germany) and active throughout Europe. The company acts as a service provider for agricultural and food sectors (with emphasis on recycling waste from meat and food industries), as a producer of new forms of energy, and as a manufacturer of high quality products for human consumption, pet food, aquaculture, oleochemistry and agriculture. SARIA is one of the largest companies of its kind in Europe and is owned by family-run Rethmann Group.
History
RETHMANN first became active in the field of recycling animal by-products when it took over the firm "Gebr. Schaap" in Marl, Germany in 1977. SARIA Bio-Industries AG & Co. KG was then founded in 1998 as an independent division of the RETHMANN Group. The new company united all of the Group’s activities within the product and service segments that had previously been run by a number of companies including RETHMANN TBA GmbH & Co. KG.
Processing plants were already being operated at the time of the company’s foundation in:
- Germany (7 plants)
- Austria (1 plant)
- Czech Republic (1 plant)
- France (10 plants, previously Soporga and SFM)
- Spain (1 plant)
- Poland (1 plant)
Since 1998, the company has been steadily growing in size by expanding into new areas, extending existing processing plants, and by taking over existing companies operating in the same sector of business. A milestone in the company’s history was, for example, when it put Germany’s first ever plant into operation in 2001 to produce biodiesel from animal fat. This plant is located in Malchin, Germany. Further plants have followed, with vegetable oils now also being used to produce biofuels.
Company structure
SARIA’s individual national controlling companies operate under the umbrella of SARIA Bio-Industries AG & Co. KG, which is based in Selm, Germany. SARIA is active in the following countries:
- Germany
- France
- Poland
- Czech Republic
- Spain
- Austria
- Hungary
- Belarus
- Lithuania
- Russia
- United Kingdom
Locations in Europe
Around 3,600 employees work at the company’s approx. 100 businesses which are located in ten European countries.
Products and services
SARIA’s wide-ranging products and services can be divided up into four different areas:
SARIA ProductsServices high quality products (in particular proteins and fats) based on by-products from the meat and fish industriesnew forms of energy (in particular biodiesel and biogas)collection & recycling of secondary materials from livestock businesses / meat industrycollection & recycling of leftover food, out-of-date food and frying fats food for human consumption, pet food, technical applications, plant & cereal growingenergy consumers (esp. electricity / gas consumers and fuel consumers)livestock businesses and the meat industryrestaurants and large-scale kitchens, food retailers