Centravo
| Centravo Holding AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1990 |
| Seat | Zurich , Switzerland |
| management | Rainer Betken ( CEO ) Peter Bachmann ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | approx. 300 (2007) |
| sales | approx. CHF 200 million (2007) |
| Branch | Meat industry |
| Website | www.centravo.ch |
The Centravo Holding AG , based in Zurich is a Swiss meat processing company . As a service provider for the Swiss meat industry, the company is owned by the meat industry roughly in line with the market shares in the industry. Centravo employs around 300 people and in 2007 generated sales of around 200 million Swiss francs.
Field of activity
The core business of Centravo is the recovery and processing of the portion that arises from the slaughter of farm animals and is not ingestible for humans. This makes up around two thirds of a farm animal and has a wide range of uses in the food and pharmaceutical industries as well as in oleo and petrochemicals or as biomass for energy production or raw materials for the production of pet food ( dog food , cat food, etc.), animal feed or leather items .
history
Centravo ( Centra le V erkaufs- O rganisation) emerged in 1990 from the merger of the three self-help organizations HFZ, Häute- und Fettwerk AG in Zurich, Hauteverwertung Basel, Fettwerk Basel, HAFEBA and the Central Swiss Butchers' Cooperative (GZM) . Its roots go back to 1889 when self-help organizations of butchers' associations were founded in Zurich, Basel and Bern to market slaughter by-products, mainly hides and fats, and later also for processing bones and slaughterhouse waste. The CENTRAVO Group has been structured as a holding company since the beginning of 2010 and operates as Centravo Holding AG.
For the export of food-grade slaughter by-products , a plant was built in Oensingen from 2015 , which is operated by the subsidiary Swiss Nutrivalor AG. In 2019, Swiss Nutrivalor received the license to export pork products to China. Around 6000 tons of pig feet are to be delivered every year.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ foodaktuell.ch: Centravo builds slaughter by-product plant. In: nutrivalor.ch. June 14, 2015, accessed January 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Green light for export - Swiss pig's feet for China. In: srf.ch . June 14, 2019, accessed January 12, 2020 .