Ingredient Research

The Trouw Nutrition Ingredient Research Centre, based in The Netherlands, focuses on exploring and identifying new bioactive and ingredients that can be developed into innovative, sustainable, and efficacious feed additive solutions.

The Ingredients R&D team is comprised of highly educated and experienced experts from various disciplines. Each team member specializes in a key focus area - biochemistry, mycotoxicology, microbiology, trace mineral nutrition, gut health, and physical formulation - to facilitate internal collaboration and a multi-disciplinary approach to developing high-quality solutions. Our research program covers many different species and is conducted at Trouw Nutrition’s dedicated R&D centres and via our academic and industry collaborations across the globe.

Enhancing gut health with novel technologies

The Ingredients Research team takes an integrated approach to innovating by developing novel concepts to enhance gastrointestinal competence in farmed animal species. We work with key collaborators to address the needs of our customers by:

Applying novel technologies to improve the resilience of the gastrointestinal tract when facing environmental, microbial, and mycotoxin challenges
Integrating specific biotechnologies in management programs aimed at optimizing digestive capacity and nutrient absorption throughout the productive lifecycle
Using feed formulation technologies to optimize diets and enhance the dietary nutrient utilization efficiency

Generating sustainable feed safety solutions to optimize and sustain production

Utilizing by-products from the food industry in addition to raw materials and on-farm ingredients are common practices in animal production systems across the globe. Preserving these feed ingredients to ensure both formulations of high-quality diets and improvements in the agriculture industry is a key opportunity for innovation.

Our group collaborates with external partners to ensure high-quality feed and optimized performance with farm feed safety programs that:

Preserve by-products for use as feed ingredients
Provide solutions to improve quality and eliminate biological contaminants from raw feed materials during the transport and manufacturing process
Apply specific biotechnologies to develop solutions for reducing the negative impact of feed-borne mycotoxins in farm animal species

Our goal is to develop new, efficacious customer-centric feed additive solutions at the cutting edge of technology and science. When integrated into our total program approach, these solutions will deliver significant value to the consumer and support sustainability of the animal production system.

John Doelman, Manager Trouw Nutrition Ingredients Research Centre