De Wit Speciality Oils
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- De Waal, Netherlands
- Industries
- Food ingredients & products, Animal feed, Food safety & quality, Supply chain monitoring & traceability, Plant-based, Alternative proteins
- Domains
- Ingredients, Oils & fats, Palm oil alternatives, Feed, Algae, Plant based primary products
- Technologies
- Extraction, Processing
About De Wit Speciality Oils
De Wit Speciality Oils is a family-owned company that has been involved in seed cultivation and oil production since 1978. It supplies high-quality plant-based and marine oils, along with dry ingredients, to customers in nutraceutical, cosmetic, food, and animal nutrition markets.
The company positions itself as a specialist supplier focused on quality, traceability, sustainability, and innovation. It works closely with customers, follows market trends, and adapts its range to meet changing needs while maintaining a strong emphasis on responsible sourcing and processing.
Core Values
- Quality: The company emphasizes consistent product quality through careful raw-material selection, monitored processing, batch-level controls, and certificates of analysis.
- Sustainability: It highlights sustainable farming, organic agriculture, reduced waste, renewable energy use, and environmentally sound practices throughout its operations.
- Traceability: De Wit stresses knowing the origin of its raw materials, working directly with farmers where possible, and closely monitoring production from seed to finished oil.
- Innovation: The company says it continuously experiments, adapts, and follows market developments to improve processing methods and expand its range.
- Health and wellbeing: Its mission is to provide ingredients that support the health and wellbeing of people and animals.
Unique Aspects
- Family business with long operating history: De Wit Speciality Oils says it has been active in seed cultivation and oil production since 1978.
- Ownership of New Holland Extraction: The company acquired its UK subsidiary, New Holland Extraction Ltd., in 2003; this facility is a specialist toll extractor for niche seed oils.
- In-house extraction capability: Oils are processed through its own production facility in the United Kingdom, allowing close control over processing, traceability, and reliability.
- Broad specialty oil portfolio: Its product list spans plant, marine, nutraceutical, cosmetic, food, and feed applications, including niche oils such as echium, camelina, star arvensis oil, and algae oil.
- Worldwide shipping and flexible packaging: The company states that it ships worldwide and offers multiple packaging formats, including bulk, drums, HDPE containers, and consumer bottles.
- Certifications and accreditations: De Wit states that it is ISO 9001:2015 certified and holds SKAL, FSSC 22000, Kosher, and other certifications; New Holland Extraction is additionally FEMAS and Soil Association certified.