ERBER Group Company Brochure

COMPANY BROCHURE

Leaving foodprints BIOMIN  ROMER LABS  SANPHAR  EFB

Pioneers  Partners  Performers

Ing. Erich ERBER, PhD h.c.

Founder and President, ERBER AG

Jan VANBRABANT, PhD Chairman of Executive Board ERBER AG

Welcome to ERBER Group In 1983 when Erich Erber laid the foundation for ERBER Group, he adopted a new way to support animal nutrition that privileges natural and innovative solutions and benefits animals, producers and the environment.

Feeding a global population expected to reach ten billion people by 2050 involves a set of issues relating to the efficient use of natural resources, respect for

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the environment, quality, health, safety, nutrition, economic development, production and profit.

Success will rely on navigating these factors using the most advanced tools and methods available.

At ERBER Group we focus completely on making food and feed products more efficient, raising them to an even higher level of quality, and making them safer in a healthy and sustainable way. For decades we have

Dr. Eva Maria BINDER Director of Executive Board Research & Development and Innovation

Mag. Rudolf STELZHAMMER Director of Executive Board Finance & Controlling and M&A

advanced our intensive internal research in the field of biotechnology, which is the basis of our success.

This has enabled us to provide our customers with many innovative solutions across the entire feed and food supply chain.

Dr. Heinz FLATNITZER Director of Executive Board HR, Corporate Communications and Group Operations

over the past 35 years reinforces that with our approach, we are on the right track - in the decades to come as well. ERBER Group is a family-owned business in its basic structure.

Our global growth and success are based on a sustainable corporate culture which is also reflected in our lasting good relations with our customers, suppliers and corporation partners. Our experience

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Feeding tomorrow According to estimates, the world’s population will increase to ten billion people in 2050. In order to be able to feed all these people, many aspects need to be taken into account in their entirety: efficient

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management of natural resources, environmental awareness, quality, health, safety, nutrition, economic development, production, and turnover.

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Customers in more than

140 countries

~1400 employees representing

52

nationalities

History dating back to

1983

A research network of

~250

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production sites worldwide

universities and research institutes

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Connected We are Pioneers, Partners and Performers. We are committed to our customers, performance-oriented innovation, a corporate culture that nurtures and recognizes talent, and respect for both stakeholders and the environment.

Leaving foodprints

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Engaged We are deeply involved in a range of areas from field to fork. We bring passion and enthusiasm to these issues and leverage robust scientific research to benefit our business partners, customers, end users and stakeholders.

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Animal nutrition

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Animal health

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Feed & food safety

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Crop protection

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Inquisitive Powerful in-house research and development provides the basis for developing customerfocused and innovative solutions. The ERBER Group companies are operative in many fields around the globe and based on partnerships with more than 250 renowned laboratories, universities and research institutions, we are a pioneer in science.

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The research campus in Tulln is the center of our scientific activities. Our scientists develop new processes there which go as far as the fundamentals of biochemistry. These processes serve as tools and the basis for innovations in food and feed safety.

Forward-thinking When BIOMIN was founded in 1983, Erich and Margarete Erber embraced a new way to support animal nutrition, one that privileges natural and innovative solutions and benefits animals, producers and the environment. The company’s name derives from BIOS, meaning “life,” and MIN, important nutrients including vitaMINs and MINerals.

Today, the same philosophy applies as the Group’s activities have extended across the entire feed and food value chain, spanning ingredient production, animal nutrition, animal protein production, meat and food processing, and retail and food service.

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Experienced 1983

BIOMIN founded.

Operation starts in a rented warehouse with a staff of three

2008

Blossom Protect by BIO-FERM receives innovation award

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1985

First mycotoxin deactivation product, launched following acquisition of Interpremix

2010

Fermentation plant in Brazil opened

1990

Headquarter in Herzogenburg, Austria opened

2012

Acquisition of Microplus-D

1996

BIOMIN Vietnam opened with first overseas production site

2013

Mycofix速 BBSH速 and Select receive EU approval as first and only substance for Mycotox-deactivation.

1999

Acquisition of ROMER LABS Inc. (est. 1982)

2014

EU-approval for PoultryStar速 and FUMzyme速

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2000: Opening Hungary and Shanghai 2002: Opening production Singapore

Innovation and export price for Biomin® C-EX

2003: Opening of France and Romania

2015

Opening ERBER Group Campus, Getzersdorf /NÖ

First World Nutrition Forum held in Salzburg, Austria, organized by BIOMIN.

First BIOMIN Center of Applied Animal Nutrition (CAN) opens

Acquisitions of SANPHAR (est. 1992), Bio-Protect and BIO-FERM (est. 2004)

Foundation of BIO-FERM-plant protection

2016

Lower Austrian Governor Erwin Pröll awarded Erich Erber, PhD h.c. with the silver Commander’s Cross (Komturkreuz) for his economic and scientific achievements

2017

Launch of Digestarom® DC – The Feed Converter®

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2018

Opening of the first ERBER Group North America Hub (BIOMIN), Kansas City

35 years BIOMIN

Acquisition of our former distributor INUSA in Mexico

Opening of our new ROMER Labs Site in Tulln, Austria

Opening of our new BIOMIN production site in Wuxi, China

8. BIOMIN World Nutrition Forum in Capetown, SA

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companies

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At BIOMIN we harness the power of science to support

ROMER LABS is a worldwide leading provider of

animal health and performance. By applying state-of-

diagnostic solutions for the food and feed industry. We

the-art and proprietary technology we deliver natural,

provide a comprehensive range of innovative solutions

sustainable and profitable solutions to the livestock

by using cutting-edge technologies. In the fields of

industry. For over 35 years we have pioneered innovative

chromatography and immunoanalysis, our labs provide

solutions for mycotoxin risk management and gut

services for the analysis of mycotoxins, food pathogens,

performance.

food allergens, gluten, genetically modified organisms

Our in-house R&D program at the BIOMIN Research

(GMOs), veterinary drug residues, identification of meat

Center is staffed by over 150 scientific researchers and

species, and other food contaminants.

supported by Centers for Applied Animal Nutrition and

ROMER LABS operates four accredited service labs in

a global network of academic and research institutions.

Austria, UK, the US and Singapore.

Our clients in the poultry, swine, cattle and aquaculture

The basic goal of ROMER LABS is to provide science-

sectors are located in more than 140 countries

based, high-quality products and services, true to our

worldwide. Naturally ahead.

motto: Making the World’s Food SaferŽ.

Structured for success

SANPHAR develops veterinary solutions to improve

EFB (ERBER Future Business) is our “in-house incubator”

animal health for livestock and aquaculture with an

– an innovative, international biotech company

emphasis on disease prevention. In-depth knowledge and

belonging to ERBER Group. We are the innovation hub

top diagnostic services enable our animal health experts

for developments of new projects being in the strategic

to recommend biosecurity, preventative and therapeutic

focus of ERBER Group. We are able to realize projects

solutions that work to achieve a productive herd health

from the first laboratory experiment to the industrial

status. Environmental preservation and sustainability

scale production, currently in our new business areas of

in all its processes and products is a key value of the

enzymes and vaccines.

company. Our continually expanding footprint covers

Together with our affiliated companies BIO-FERM

countries throughout Latin America (Brazil, Mexico) and

and ERBER Enzymes, we are also active with different

Asia (Vietnam, Singapore). Think Ahead!

innovative products in the area of biotechnological crop protection as well as the use of enzymes for different application fields.

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Responsible Success is important to us, but not solely – our approaches are also sustainable regarding health, food security and safety, and the environment.

Respect for the planet benefits all living things.

We place renewable energy at the heart of our daily

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business operations. The majority of energy demand is covered by renewable energy sources. The Erber Group Campus opened in Getzersdorf in 2016 achieved LEED platinum rating for implementing green building practices – the highest certification possible.

Charitable ERBER Group aims at actively living values such as responsibility, community, appreciation, innovation and sustainability. These values are in the centre of all our actions. Since 2009 our company has supported more than 50 different social aid projects in 25 countries around the globe, in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Our partners: “MENSCHEN FÜR ANDERE” (Jesuit mission) globally, and “Bauern für Bauern” (Farmers for Farmers) in Austria.

These programs aim to improve access to clean water, agriculture development, child welfare, the negative impacts of violence, refugee conditions, disaster relief and more. We at ERBER Group are convinced that a future-oriented society is in need of two things: innovative entrepreneurial spirit and social awareness.

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BIOMIN  ROMER LABS  SANPHAR  EFB

Pioneers  Partners  Performers