Royal Avebe: potato starch and protein cooperative
Royal Avebe is a cooperative of starch potato growers in the Netherlands and Germany, making potato starch and protein for food, feed and industry.
Cooperative group of starch potato growers in the Netherlands and Germany, making potato starch and protein for food, feed and industry.
Netherlands ·
Royal Avebe is a cooperative processing group connected to starch potato growers in the Netherlands and Germany, with a history going back to 1919. The cooperative turns its members' starch potatoes into potato starch, starch derivatives and potato protein, sold as functional ingredients for food, animal feed and industrial uses. Its named products include ELIANE, a waxy potato starch. The model ties members' crop deliveries directly to the development of new uses and markets for the raw material.
Starch potatoes are a separate crop from table or chipping potatoes: they are grown for high starch content, and that content largely sets the value of a delivery. Members work under cooperative membership terms with delivery obligations, and payment reflects the starch they deliver. On the customer side, potato starch and protein are used to thicken, bind, stabilise or add nutrition, so ingredient buyers judge them in their own recipes and processes and look for consistency from batch to batch.
Size of the business
Avebe's consolidated net turnover was approximately EUR 766.0 million in 2024/25, while gross turnover for the same year was EUR 805.0 million.
What does Royal Avebe offer?
Avebe offers potato starch and starch derivatives, potato protein, and functional ingredients for food, feed and industrial applications.
How should a buyer make contact?
Avebe is organised by country and business unit, and its website lists the relevant local contacts. An enquiry that states the intended application, the scale of the project and the timing required gets the quickest useful answer.
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