Stern-Wywiol Group

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Stern-Wywiol Group

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1980
Seat Hamburg
management
  • Torsten Wywiol (CEO)
  • Volkmar Wywiol, managing partner
Number of employees approx. 1500 (2018)
sales 520 million euros (2017)
Branch Additives and ingredients for food and pet food; oleochemical specialties and cosmetic additives
Website stern-wywiol-gruppe.de

The Stern-Wywiol Gruppe is a globally operating, owner-managed group of companies with 12 German companies and 16 foreign branches. The family company specializes in additives for food and animal nutrition as well as dietary supplements . The head office is in Hamburg , directly on the Outer Alster . The research center with extensive application technology is located in Ahrensburg near Hamburg. With the MehlWelten Museum in Wittenburg and the Hamburg sculpture gallery Stern-Wywiol Galerie , the company shows its social and cultural commitment.

development

Volkmar Wywiol founded the company in 1980 with the acquisition of the small trading company Sternchemie. With the specialization in the emulsifier lecithin, the company began its global success as a supplier of functional systems in the food industry. Two years later, the company entered the animal feed industry with the acquisition of Berg + Schmidt. The group expanded continuously and grew at different locations with self-sufficient companies for flour improvers, baking ingredients, enzymes , stabilizers for milk, delicatessen and meat products, meat additives , vitamins , lecithins , flavors , dietary supplements , bars, chocolate pieces, fat powder and oleochemical specialties.

Research and application technology

Stern-Technology Center Ahrensburg

The Stern-Technology Center in Ahrensburg / Hamburg was completed in 2003 and continuously expanded to 3000 m² laboratory space. It is the research and development center of the group with extensive test facilities and application technology service for flour and baked goods, pasta , milk and delicatessen products, meat products , enzyme and lecithin applications, cosmetics and feed additives. 100 industry experts, technologists, technicians, agronomists and scientists work in an interdisciplinary manner on process and product improvements, on food and feeding trends of tomorrow.

Production sites

SternMaid Wittenburg

Depending on the product, the group produces at different locations. Powdery and liquid food additives and food supplements are manufactured in Wittenburg ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). The Wittenburg production operates under the name SternMaid. The modern mixing, compounding and fluidized bed technology has been in operation since 1999 and has an annual capacity of 50,000 tons with packaging systems for small packaging. The broad production base has made SternMaid a sought-after contract manufacturer and outsourcing partner for powdery functional systems.

Chocolate pieces and energy bars are made in Norderstedt ( Schleswig-Holstein ) at Herza Schokolade. In Mexico , USA , China , India , Malaysia and Turkey , country-specific powdery ingredient systems are produced in the company's own branches. The feed fat production takes place in Malaysia and India. The production of pure lecithin takes place in India and Singapore , the production of sunflower lecithin in Poland .

Stern-Wywiol Group

Company headquarters in Hamburg

Holding

  • Stern-Wywiol Group (Hamburg)

German companies

  • Mühlenchemie (Ahrensburg) - flour improvers
  • SternEnzym (Ahrensburg) - enzymes for baked goods, pasta, meat, milk and sugar
  • Hydrosol (Ahrensburg) - stabilizers and texturing agents for food
  • HS-Additive GmbH (Hatten) - meat additives
  • SternLife (Norderstedt) - food supplements and functional bars
  • DeutscheBack (Ahrensburg) - baking ingredients, baking aids, functional systems
  • SternVitamin (Ahrensburg) - micronutrient premixes, vitamins
  • Berg + Schmidt (Hamburg) - feed additives, fat powder and oleochemical specialties
  • Sternchemie (Hamburg) - lecithins, MCT oils and lipid specialties
  • Herza Schokolade (Norderstedt) - Chocolate pieces for cereals, ice cream and baked goods
  • SternMaid production company (Wittenburg) - mixing technology, coating, granulating and packaging
  • OlbrichtArom (Leisnig) - flavors for food

The Stern-Wywiol Gruppe and the German subsidiaries are for the most part registered as GmbH & Co. KG in the commercial register.

Foreign branches

Food

  • SternIngredients Suzhou Co.Ltd. ( Suzhou / China)
  • Stern Ingredients India Pvt. Ltd. ( Mumbai / India)
  • SternIngredients, SA de CV ( Mexico City / Mexico)
  • Representative Office Poland ( Warsaw / Poland)
  • SternIngredients Russia ( Saint Petersburg / Russia) with a branch in Moscow
  • SternIngredients Asia Pacific Ltd. ( Singapore )
  • SternIngredients Turkey Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi ( Izmir / Turkey)
  • SternIngredients Ukraine LLC ( Kiev / Ukraine)
  • SternMaid America LLC ( Aurora , IL / USA)

Feed

  • Berg + Schmidt India Pyt. Ltd. ( Pune / India)
  • Berg + Schmidt Polska Sp. Zoo ( Poznań / Poland)
  • Berg + Schmidt Asia Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)
  • Berg + Schmidt Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (Selangor / Malaysia)
  • Berg + Schmidt (Thailand) Co. Ltd. (Samut Sakhorn / Thailand)
  • Berg + Schmidt Nutrition Sdn. Bhd. (Pasir / Gudang / Malaysia)
  • Berg + Schmidt America LLC ( Libertyville , IL / USA)

Stern-Wywiol Gallery

  • The group shows changing exhibitions of contemporary art with a focus on sculptures in the ground floor foyer of their Hamburg headquarters.

Web links

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  • Volkmar Wywiol: Creativity leads - 25 years of the Stern-Wywiol Gruppe. 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. Internet site of the Stern-Wywiol Galerie