Roquette Frères
| Roquette Frères
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| legal form | Family business on shares |
| founding | 1933 |
| Seat |
 France , Lestrem
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| management | Marc Roquette |
| Number of employees | 8,000 |
| sales | € 3.3 billion |
| Branch | food industry |
| Website | www.roquette.fr |
Roquette Frères is a French family company that specializes in the processing of starch products after extraction from corn, potatoes, wheat or peas.
The head office is in Lestrem in the Pas-de-Calais department . Roquette manufactures and develops a wide range of preliminary and finished products for use in the food or animal feed, paper and pharmaceutical industries.
Roquette Frères is a public limited company owned by the Roquette family. The shares are not traded on the stock exchange.
Roquette operates in four locations in France:
- Lestrem (headquarters, starch industry source: corn)
- Beinheim (starch production from corn and wheat)
- Vic-sur-Aisne (starch factory potato pancakes)
- Vecquemont (starch factory potato pancakes)
The group has a total of twelve locations in North America, Asia and Europe. Roquette is the fourth largest starch company and global manufacturer of starch. The sugar substitutes sorbitol , mannitol and xylitol as well as maltodextrin are also produced. Another business area is the production of culture media for bioreactors .