Planteneers continues its expansion into North America with the opening of its Customer Center of Excellence in Aurora, Ill., this summer. Planteneers brings its functional ingredient systems into the plant-based food and beverage space to enable brands to create products for the flexitarian, vegetarian, and vegan consumer. In the new Aurora facility, Planteneers can: host customers for collaborative product development sessions with a full plant-based meat laboratory (with a plant-based dairy laboratory coming online soon after the ribbon-cutting), develop ingredient solutions that work for US consumers, and house sales, distribution, marketing, product managers and R&D team members.
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The grand opening will take place Wednesday, June 26 at the new facility off Butterfield Road in Aurora. CEO of Planteneers’ parent company, Stern-Wywiol Gruppe, Torsten Wywiol will cut the ribbon officially opening the facility along with Matthias Moser (Managing Director), Karl Chang (Global Commercial Director), and Dr. Dorotea Pein (Director of Innovation). The global Planteneers team – along with a dedicated US team - dedicated the last three years toward growing Planteneers’ footprint and brand within the North American market and will continue to lead the team in the coming years.
The Customer Center of Excellence Grand Opening will feature Planteneers’ ingredient solutions used in products, but with an added culinary spin. Food Network’s Julia Child Challenge finalist, Chef Dustin Hogue joins the festivities taking Planteneers ingredient demonstration products and bringing them to the final consumer-centric culinary experience. Chef Dustin Hogue competed with seven other chefs on Food Network’s 2022 show that honored Julia Child’s contributions to the culinary space. Chef Hogue currently operates as a home chef, fitness instructor, and underground Chicago-land culinary operative.
