Roquette
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Benifaió, Spain
- Industries
- Alternative proteins, Animal feed, Arable farming, Bio-energy & biomaterials, Consumer health & consumer effects, Crop / plant science, Farm input, Food ingredients & products, Food reformulation, Food safety & quality, New food processing techniques
- Domains
- Peas, Plant based primary products, Ingredients, Fibres, Food additives, Functional ingredients, Protein isolates, Protein concentrates
- Technologies
- Processing, Physical modification, Biorefining, Fermentation, Extraction, Texturising / texturing, Biotechnology & sustainable inputs
About Roquette
Roquette is a global, family-owned company that develops plant-based ingredients, excipients, and solutions for food and nutrition, health and pharma, cosmetics, bioindustry, animal nutrition, and agriscience. Founded in 1933 in France, it has grown into an international business with more than 11,000 employees, a presence in over 150 countries, and a network of more than 40 manufacturing sites and 20 R&D and innovation centers.
The company positions itself around turning renewable raw materials into high-performance products that improve quality, convenience, and sustainability. Its website emphasizes long-term partnerships, scientific expertise, and innovation as the basis for helping customers create better food experiences, support health outcomes, and enable bio-based industrial applications.
Core Values
- Authenticity: Roquette says it acts responsibly and honestly, communicates openly, and builds trust through transparency and openness to feedback.
- Excellence: The company emphasizes continuous learning, high-quality work, and a commitment to aiming higher for customers and their customers.
- Well-being: Roquette highlights care for people, safety, inclusion, and sustainable development for life and nature.
- Forward-looking: The company presents itself as curious, ambitious, and focused on anticipating customer, consumer, and patient needs while balancing long-term priorities.
Unique Aspects
- Long-standing family ownership: Roquette remains a private family-owned company, which it presents as a source of stable governance and a long-term strategic horizon.
- Global industrial and innovation footprint: The company operates more than 40 manufacturing sites and 20+ R&D and innovation centers, giving it broad reach across major regions and markets.
- Expanded pharma platform: Roquette completed the acquisition of Qualicaps in 2023 and IFF Pharma Solutions in 2025, strengthening its pharmaceutical offering and positioning it as a broader pharma solutions provider.
- Scale in plant-based ingredients: Roquette processes more than six million tons of renewable agricultural raw materials annually and offers more than 700 plant-based ingredients and products.
- Named low-carbon partnership: Roquette announced a three-year partnership with Vivescia and Siplec E.Leclerc to build a low-carbon French ethanol value chain, linking regenerative agriculture with lower-carbon industrial production.