RAPS (company)
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1924 |
| Seat | Kulmbach , Germany |
| management | Florian Knell |
| Number of employees | approx. 900 (2019) |
| sales | 180 million euros (2018) |
| Branch | food industry |
| Website | www.raps.com |
RAPS GmbH & Co. KG is a German spice company with an annual turnover of approx. 180 million euros. The family company is based in Kulmbach ( Bavaria ) and processes over 1,700 raw materials from all over the world. With a total of seven production sites in Europe and around 900 employees worldwide , RAPS produces around 35,000 tons of a wide variety of food ingredients and additives per year.
history
The company was founded in Hamburg in 1924 by the pharmacist Adalbert Raps . In 1953 the foundation stone for the Kulmbach plant was laid. After expanding into the international market in the late 1970s, RAPS has developed into a global company that is the preferred supplier for many manufacturers of end products. Today the export share is over 50 percent.
Corporate structure
7 production facilities in Europe that process over 1,700 raw materials from all over the world according to over 20,000 recipes, dispatch of up to 2,000 deliveries per day to over 80 countries, around 900 employees worldwide, 550 of them at the headquarters in Kulmbach.
RAPS GmbH & Co. KG has the following subsidiaries:
Market segments and sales
The core competencies of RAPS include:
- INDUSTRY: As a partner to the international food processing industry, RAPS supplies companies from the meat and sausage, fish and delicatessen, ready-to-use and frozen meals, confectionery and snacks, dairy products, bread and baked goods sectors.
- DELICO: As a partner to the meat trade, delicatessen counters and food retailers , RAPS supports over 22,000 sales outlets. The craft has always been part of the traditional business and is looked after personally and comprehensively.
- FOODSERVICE: Whether caterers, community catering or gastronomy - the spice expert supplies around 5,000 customers with first-class products and constantly new recipe ideas.
Products
The portfolio includes:
- Spices , spice mixtures and herbs
- Ingredients and compounds for the production of meat , fish , dairy , baked goods and convenience products
- Functional ingredients
- Sauces, marinades, pestos, dressings, toppings and fillings for fish, meat, dairy and convenience products
- Vegetarian and vegan meat substitutes and meat reduction products
- Organic products : spices and herbs, spice mills and marinades
- Starter cultures for raw sausage products , also as a complete solution with suitable ripening and spice mixtures
- Recipe pool with more than 20,000 developments
Technologies
Specially developed and proven manufacturing processes ensure the high quality, the right taste and the optimal functionality of the RAPS products.
- Frost-cold grinding (process for preserving raw materials in an inert nitrogen atmosphere, provides more flavor)
- CoaTec (encapsulation of additives and active ingredients and targeted release of active mechanisms)
- Flavocaps ( microencapsulated flavors , low in germs, spreadable, storage and flavor stable)
- Plant Press (1960 RAPS was the first spice plant in the world to extract natural oils)
- CO 2 high pressure extraction (production of natural, solvent-free additives and active ingredients)
- CPF technology (makes liquids spreadable)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of RAPS GmbH & Co. KG
- ^ Company of the RAPS Group
- ↑ RAPS product catalogs. Retrieved December 22, 2016 .
- ↑ RAPS technology. Retrieved December 22, 2016 .