Food Ingredients Introduction

Carbon Group represents a number of internationally renowned food ingredient manufacturers in the Irish and UK markets. Some of the companies that Carbon Group represents are mentioned below and are specialists in the dairy and food processing industries. Carbon Group also supplies many standard food ingredients and can source any ingredient required from around the globe through our international sourcing network.

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DSM Food Specialities is a large and diverse ingredient supplier to the food industry. The Carbon Group has represented this company for over 30 years in the sale of dairy ingredients in Ireland and the UK. DSM has achieved a leading position worldwide in microbial milk clotting enzymes (rennets), starter cultures for all cheese types and high-quality probiotics for a variety of dairy and food applications. DSM also produces the well known DELVOTEST antibiotic testing equipment used almost exclusively in Ireland by dairy processors and other food safety organisations to comply with stringent statutory requirements on antibiotic residues in dairy products. For more information on DSM Food Specialties - Cost Savings please click here.

Akzo Nobel, headquartered in the Netherlands, is one of the world’s leading salt producers, supplying a full range of top quality salt products for all markets and applications, including industrial, chemical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, food processing and salt for de-icing.

Galactic is one of the world’s leading producers of quality lactic acid and lactic derivatives. Typical applications for lactic acid include food preservation and pH modification (acidulation) of formulated products. Derivatives of lactic acid include sodium lactate, used in preservation of meat products, and calcium lactate for calcium-fortified foods. A range of environmentally friendly lactate-based solvent products is also available to replace Trichloroethylene and Methylene Chloride.

DEAD SEA SALT, operating since 1996 in a fully modern salt refinery, this company produces refined salts through a natural and environmentally friendly process out of the unique Dead Sea waters in Israel. The process is mainly a solar evaporation process, which takes advantage of the climatic conditions at the Dead Sea area.