Lallemand Baking and AIT Ingredients combine fermentation, formulation, and application expertise to support efficiency, consistency, and innovation to industrial bakers around the globe
In June 2025, Lallemand Baking reached a new strategic milestone with the acquisition of AIT Ingredients, a recognised player in ingredient solutions for the bakery, flour milling, and pasta industries.
This acquisition reflects Lallemand Baking’s ambition to strengthen its international presence while expanding its technological and application expertise dedicated to industrial bakers. Rather than representing a standalone corporate milestone, the integration addresses the growing need for partners capable of addressing industrial baking challenges in a more holistic, application-driven way, combining ingredient expertise, fermentation science, and application support.
For more than a century, Lallemand Baking has developed recognised expertise in fermentation, microorganism selection, and associated technologies. AIT Ingredients brings more than twenty years of know-how in ingredient formulation and a deep understanding of industrial challenges related to bakery and milling applications.
The complementarity between the two companies quickly became evident. Together, they combine scientific excellence, formulation expertise, extensive application knowledge, and strong proximity to the field. This synergy now enables industrial bakers to benefit from a broader, more agile, and more innovative portfolio designed to address the industry’s evolving challenges.
Addressing a Changing Industrial Bakery Environment
Industrial bakers operate in an increasingly complex environment. They must consistently deliver product quality while optimising costs, improving process efficiency, supporting clean-label positioning, and reducing food waste. At the same time, raw material variability and supply chain volatility continue to challenge production stability.
In parallel, evolving consumer expectations are driving demand for cleaner labels, improved nutritional profiles, and enhanced sensory experiences. As a result, ingredient solutions are no longer expected to address single functionalities but must deliver multiple benefits simultaneously, supporting product quality, process robustness, and sustainability.
A System-Based Approach to Baking Performance
In this context, Lallemand Baking adopts a system-based approach, supporting industrial bakers across the entire value chain, from fermentation and dough development to texture optimisation, shelf-life extension, enzyme solutions, sourdough, natural preservation, and clean-label formulation strategies.
Rather than focusing on individual ingredients, this approach emphasises integrated solutions tailored to real production conditions, enabling manufacturers to address complex challenges more effectively and sustainably.
Strengthening Process Reliability Through Application Expertise
Above all, Lallemand Baking’s solutions are designed to meet the practical realities of modern industrial baking. Improvers and conditioners are not only designed to enhance volume or visual appearance; they are engineered to ensure production line stability, meet industrial constraints, and deliver consistent quality at scale.
Industrial baking processes are increasingly demanding, often involving high-speed production, automation, and variable raw material quality. Ensuring consistency under these conditions requires solutions that go beyond formulation and are grounded in application expertise.
Lallemand Baking develops customised technical solutions adapted to each customer’s specific process conditions. These solutions aim to improve dough tolerance, enhance process control, and deliver consistent product performance. In addition, they support recipe simplification, reduction of additives, and cost optimisation.
By working closely with customers, Lallemand’s application teams can adapt formulations to flour characteristics, process parameters, and finished-product objectives. This application-driven approach helps industrial bakers maintain consistent results while improving overall process efficiency.
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