Crespel & Deiters
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Ibbenbüren, Germany
- Industries
- Alternative proteins, Food ingredients & products, Food reformulation, Animal feed, Food safety & quality, New food processing techniques
- Domains
- Feed, Pet food, Ingredients, Wheat, Plant based primary products, Functional ingredients, Beans, Peas
- Technologies
- Extrusion, Physical modification, Fermentation, Processing, Biotechnology & sustainable inputs, Texturising / texturing, Enzyme technology
About Crespel & Deiters
Crespel & Deiters is a sixth-generation, family-owned industrial company founded in 1858 and headquartered in Ibbenbüren, Germany. It operates globally with production sites in Germany and the Netherlands, and it refines renewable, plant-based raw materials into functional ingredients and technical solutions for food, pet food, feed, and industrial applications.
The company positions itself as a specialist in starch- and protein-based functionality, combining raw-material expertise with application engineering and process know-how. Its stated aim is to help customers improve performance, increase efficiency, reduce waste, and use resources more sustainably across their production and end products.
Core Values
- Sustainability: The company emphasizes renewable raw materials, circular use of inputs, resource efficiency, and solutions that can reduce waste and environmental impact.
- Quality and reliability: Standardized processes, quality management, and controlled production are presented as the basis for consistent product performance and secure supply.
- Innovation: Crespel & Deiters highlights continuous refinement, R&D, and application technology as ways to create better-performing solutions for changing market needs.
- Responsibility: As a family-owned business, it stresses long-term thinking, compliance, employee safety, and responsible collaboration with customers, suppliers, and partners.
Unique Aspects
- Long family ownership: The company has remained family-owned since 1858 and is now led by the sixth generation, which it presents as a source of continuity and long-term decision-making.
- Integrated refinement model: Crespel & Deiters controls multiple steps in the value chain, from raw-material processing to finished functional ingredients and adhesives, supporting consistent quality and supply security.
- International footprint: It operates production in Ibbenbüren and Helmond and maintains service, sales, and distribution locations in Europe and North America, giving it a broad market reach.
- Advanced extrusion capability in Helmond: The Helmond site is a dedicated extrusion location used to develop textures for food, pet food, and feed applications.
- Happy Plant Protein partnership: In 2026, the company partnered with Happy Plant Protein to industrialize a patented dry extrusion process in Helmond for textured vegetable proteins made from European-grown peas and fava beans.