Bioprox S.A.

Bioprox is the “biotechnology” subsidiary of the Protex-International group. For the last 70 years Protex-International has specialised in fine chemistry and is active in several fields: chemistry, textiles, electronics, paints, perfumes, water treatment and, in conjunction with Bioprox, biotechnology in the service of the food and agriculture industries.

The scope of Bioprox’s activity concerns the fermentation, preservation and conservation of food products, such as dairy products (cottage and matured cheeses, cream and butter, fermented milks and yoghurts)

Bioprox was created at the end of the Eighties and 1992 marked the launch of a production unit for concentrated freeze-dried lactic starter cultures in Noyant (49) near Saumur, France that contributed to the development of the dairy industry market with a varied range of freeze-dried starter cultures and also to the wine industry (malo-lactic cultures) and agriculture with Rhyzobium for Soya and lucern crops .

This new activity at the time was an addition to the manufacture of yeast extracts, salted flavours (vegetal proteins Hydrolysates using acid or enzymatic way) and sexual pheromones to protect fruit from insects