Planteneers continues North American expansion with new Illinois facility

Planteneers continues its expansion into North America with the opening of its Customer Center of Excellence in Aurora, Ill., in summer 2024. Planteneers brings its functional ingredient systems into the plant-based food space to enable brands to create products for the flexitarian, vegetarian and vegan consumer. In this new facility, Planteneers can host customers for collaborative product development sessions with a full plant-based meat laboratory and develop ingredient solutions that work for U.S. consumers, as well as house sales, distribution, marketing, product managers and R&D team members.

The grand opening will take place June 26 at the new facility off Butterfield Road in Aurora. CEO of Planteneers' parent company Stern-Wywiol Gruppe, Torsten Wywiol, will cut the ribbon, officially opening the facility along with Matthias Moser (managing director), Karl Chang (global commercial director) and Dr. Dorotea Pein (director of innovation). The global Planteneers team – along with a U.S. team - dedicated the last three years toward growing Planteneers' footprint and brand within the North American market and will continue to lead the team in the coming years.