Successful micronutrient premixes start with applications research
It takes both skill and commitment to blend vitamins and minerals into micronutrient premixes for foods, beverages and food supplements. SternVitamin has both these attributes – like the Stern-Wywiol Gruppe to which it belongs.
Like the group of companies as a whole, SternVitamin attaches great importance to thorough research. Our applications laboratories, with the latest high-tech equipment, are all under one roof at the Technology Centre in Ahrensburg, near Hamburg. They include a laboratory for vitamins and micronutrients, a trial bakery, the enzyme laboratory, a laboratory for dairy products, and also technical trials departments for delicatessen specialities, meat and lipids.
Interdisciplinary cooperation – our strategy for success
Interdisciplinary applications technology is our strategy for success: the experts from the individual specialist firms often seek solutions jointly. The progress achieved in one field is examined for its significance for other applications. In this respect our short routes prove helpful too. The result is a high level of innovation that gives the group as a whole – and with it SternVitamin – a head start over its competitors, again and again.
Each micronutrient premix is developed individually
The vitamin premixes and mineral premixes from SternVitamin are based on a comprehensive knowledge of biotechnology, food technology and applications. Our product research team combines vitamins and minerals individually for each customer and subjects the mixtures to exhaustive tests for solubility, stability, the effect of colour and other properties to ensure that they are suitable for use in a particular end product.
Modern blending technology ensures top-quality production
Our modern blending plant in Wittenburg has five separate blending lines controlled automatically by a central process control and visual display system. On this high-tech, microprocessor-controlled plant we can compound a wide range of vitamin and mineral premixes for you, guaranteeing very fine and even distribution of the ingredients. The production process is accompanied throughout by a sophisticated quality management system: the plant meets all the relevant quality and safety requirements. Successful audits and certification according to ISO 9001:2000 and IFS Higher Level serve as proof.
Our advice on applications will help you to use the micronutrient premixes
It is especially important to us to advise our customers on applications. First we discuss with them what a food, drink or food supplement is to be like and explain how that will influence the micronutrient premix. Once these parameters have been set we develop special solutions to our customer’s specifications. In doing so we take synergisms between nutrients into account and also ensure that our products are economical and have optimal processing characteristics. And we are there to advise and help you with practical use of the micronutrient premixes.