Fuji Europe Africa BV
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Industries
- Alternative proteins, Food ingredients & products, Supply chain monitoring & traceability, Waste efficiency
- Domains
- Plant based primary products, Soy, Processed food products, Meat alternatives, Dairy alternatives, Beverages, Beans, Ingredients
- Technologies
- Fermentation, Biotechnology & sustainable inputs
About Fuji Europe Africa BV
Fuji Oil Europe is the European branch of Fuji Oil Group, a Japan-based company founded in Osaka in 1950 and active in Europe since 1992. Headquartered in Ghent, Belgium, with an additional sales office in Barcelona, it develops and manufactures plant-based food solutions for the food industry, with a strong focus on vegetable oils and fats, chocolate fillings and coatings, and soluble fibre ingredients.
The company positions itself as a tailormade solutions partner for food manufacturers. Its offerings are designed for applications where fat functionality, texture, flavour, processing performance, and sustainability matter, and it works closely with customers through R&D, application support, and co-creation.
Fuji Oil Europe is part of a global group with production sites across continents and an integrated approach to R&D, procurement, and manufacturing. In Europe, it combines local production with regional innovation and supply-chain capabilities to serve customer needs in the market.
Core Values
- Innovation: The company emphasizes innovative, value-adding solutions and uses R&D, application labs, and in-house fat technology to develop products tailored to specific applications.
- Customer co-creation: Fuji Oil Europe highlights close collaboration with customers to understand technical requirements and create personalized solutions that fit their products and processes.
- Sustainability: Sustainability is presented as central to the business, with attention to responsible sourcing, traceability, eco-friendly processing, and recognized sustainability ratings.
- Quality and functionality: The company focuses on ingredients that deliver reliable performance, stable functionality, and the right flavour and texture in the final application.
Unique Aspects
- Part of a global Fuji Oil network: Fuji Oil Europe benefits from the wider Fuji Oil Group’s international R&D and supply-chain system, allowing it to adapt innovations and technologies for European customers and EU regulations.
- Strong cocoa and fat technology base: The Ghent site is known for cocoa butter equivalents, substitutes, replacers, functional filling fats, and nutritional fats, supported by in-house fat technology and multiple processing technologies.
- Vertical integration in shea: Through Fuji Oil Ghana in Techiman, the group is vertically integrated into shea processing, helping supply shea fractions used to make sustainable cocoa butter equivalents in Europe.
- Traceable and certified sourcing: The company works with certified and traceable supply chains for key raw materials such as palm (kernel) oil, cocoa, and shea, and reports EcoVadis Gold recognition in 2025 and 2026.
- Local European footprint with regional reach: Beyond Ghent, the company has a sales office in Barcelona and is part of a European structure that includes Fuji Europe Africa and Fuji Brandenburg, supporting innovation and ingredient production across the region.