Palsgaard - Emulsifiers and Stabilizers

'Doing things right' has always been a natural part of everyday life at Palsgaard and we can trace this value back more than a century. From the beginning, Einar Viggo Schou, the founder of Palsgaard, paid special attention to the needs of the employees and of local society, and down the years these values have been passed on and updated. Today, when we describe ourselves as 'heart working people', we say a great deal about how we see ourselves and how we would like other people to see us. Our CSR report is intended to provide stakeholders with a comprehensive overview of the effects of these values in 2010 and our goals for the future.

Our products and knowledge

Palsgaard is a specialist in the manufacture and supply of emulsifiers and stabilizers for bakery, confectionery, dairy, fine foods and sauces, ice cream and margarine. Palsgaard has a thorough, international knowledge of the sector and a wide breadth of experience, and is keen to share it!

Palsgaard is associated with high quality and service, which for us means that our emulsifiers and stabilizer blends meet customer expectations for functionality and simultaneously meet the strictest requirements of food safety. We achieve this through our quality assurance procedures and our innovative work, which largely takes place in our application facilities, in close cooperation with customers.

Emulsifiers and stabilizers

We manufacture emulsifiers and stabilizer blends that can improve and adapt your products to meet a very wide range of customer needs, including:

• Reduced fat
• Leaner labels
• Structure and stability
• Softness
• Shelf life
• Nutrition
• Moisture content
• Spreadability
• Viscosity
• Mouth-feel and texture

Global application test centres

At the core of Palsgaard customer service are our application facilities, where our professional teams are able to simulate actual production conditions at a customer's plant. Our aim is to turn your product idea into a finished product as fast as possible. In our test centres, we can jointly develop new food products or improve existing food quality and nutritional profiles or optimize customer processes. By creating a development environment that is almost identical to the real manufacturing world, we dramatically speed up the process from your initial concept to production.

We have created application facilities to ensure we can match local market trends and requirements. Our centres are based in:

• Denmark
• Singapore
• Mexico
• China

Quality management

Palsgaard's production facilities produce emulsifiers in strict compliance with the quality control requirements of HACCP and ISO 22000, ISO/TS 22002-1 plus FSSC 22000.

Why we are 'heart-working'

Palsgaard was founded on a strong philosophy of loyalty, commitment and responsibility, and this still lives in the heart of every employee today. We consider ourselves to be genuinely 'heart-working' people, meaning that what we do comes from the heart and comes to us naturally as our way of working and thinking. This commitment is reflected in our continuous achievements in meeting and exceeding the most challenging of our customers' needs and ultimate goals.

Corporate Social Responsibility

We have a very strong attachment to the local community and our tradition of acting responsibly toward each other, our communities and the environment is key to our philosophy. The core of our business is also to work very closely with our customers worldwide. We see this combination of working passionately at local roots with a wide global perspective as one of our greatest strengths.
Read more about this in our CSR- report, which can be downloaded from our website at www.palsgaard.com.

CO2 neutral by 2020

For Palsgaard, it is very important to contribute to the reduction of CO2 and ease the strain on the environment. This is natural to our corporate values. Production of emulsifiers requires a large amount of energy and therefore Palsgaard has set itself an ambitious goal to become CO2 neutral by the year 2020. As one of the steps in this direction, we have, since 1 January 2011, had all our electricity supplied as RECS-certified green energy from newly established wind farms.

Contact details:

Address: Palsgaardvej 10, DK-7130 Juelsminde, Denmark
Tel: +45 7682 7682
Fax: +45 7682 7683
Email: direct@palsgaard.dk
Website: www.palsgaard.com