Leiber is a company that refines brewers’ yeast into innovative products for humans and animals. They conduct research for their customers in their own laboratories and develop tailor-made solutions for healthy nutrition, biotechnology and agricultural applications. Founded in 1954, Leiber recently celebrated their 70 years of upcycling brewer’s yeast at world-market level.
Constantly seeking tailor-made solutions, Leiber conduct research into extracts and nutrients that improve the flavour of food and support the health of humans and animals, as well as researching ingredients that facilitate the fermentation process in biotechnological applications. Transferring the results from laboratories to large-scale production, Leiber continuously develop tried and tested products and processes, and regularly expand their product portfolio to build on their market position for sustainable products.
Leiber has specialists in science and technology that put their expertise into innovative applications, focusing on brewer’s year as a raw material. Their production units’ network with research facilities worldwide, and work closely with renowned Fraunhofer Society institutes and universities. They offer students the opportunity to write their thesis on matters in their research and development departments, thereby supporting young academic talent and laying foundations for future developments.
Quality control is planned in all processes and products, ensuring the process runs reliably, and the products customers receive are adhering to the guaranteed quality standards, with regular external audits. Managing quality from purchasing and delivering of new raw materials, all through to the end product and packaging, keeps the supply chain transparent and ensures raw materials are traceable. Leiber use testing and environmental analysis to monitor the entire production chain and operating conditions. Their quality assurance laboratory at their Bramsche-Engter site, can analyse samples in-house using over 80 different methods. Leiber always considers what problems their knowledge can solve, and new applications that can be developed with their expertise. Their primary raw material is brewers yeast, which they have been researching and harnessing for decades, prompting interest in natural ingredients, immunostimulation, natural crop protection, conditioners, upcycling, the circular economy, resource-conserving production, the avoidance of antibiotics, vegan nutrition and vegetarian preparations.
Published in the December 2024 issue of International Petfood.