Firmenich Opens Its Largest Flavors Plant Worldwide in China to Support Growing Customer Demand

/ -- Firmenich, the world's largest privately-owned perfume and taste company, today opened its largest flavor manufacturing plant in the world in the Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone in China. Operating with digitally-advanced manufacturing systems and the highest Quality, Health, Safety, Security and Environmental standards, this state-of-art plant is designed to best meet growing customer demand in China, with increased speed, operational excellence and traceability.

"This significant investment in Zhangjiagang, reinforces our long-term commitment to China, our second largest market worldwide," said Gilbert Ghostine, Firmenich CEO. "This world-class plant massively scales-up our capacity to meet our customers' demand for innovative and fast-to-market taste solutions. I look forward to seeing the Zhangjiagang plant play a central role in our growth journey."
"This digitally-advanced and highly sustainable plant marks a critical milestone on our journey to shaping the factory of the future," said Boet Brinkgreve, Chief Supply Chain Officer, Firmenich. "With a 70% automation rate, this new plant will boost our customer service, without any compromise on quality, safety and environmental performance, which is non-negotiable for us."
"We've been working to delight Chinese consumers with our broad range of local flavors in everything from dairy drinks to tea and noodles for many years," said Emmanuel Butstraen, President of Flavors at Firmenich. "This will enable us to produce locally highly differentiating technologies that can meet Chinese consumers' new discerning tastes."
About Firmenich
Firmenich is the world's largest privately-owned perfume and taste company, founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1895. Driven by its purpose to create positive emotions to enhance wellbeing, naturally, Firmenich has designed many of the world's best-known perfumes and tastes, bringing delight to over four billion consumers every day. Renowned for its world-class research and creativity, as well as its leadership in sustainability, each year, Firmenich invests 10% of its turnover in R&D to understand and share the best that nature has to offer responsibly. Firmenich had an annual turnover of 3.7 billion Swiss Francs at end June 2018. More information about Firmenich is available at www.firmenich.com