Nijsen/Granico B.V.

About Nijsen/Granico B.V.

Nijsen is a Dutch feed company that turns food-industry by-products and surplus food into circular animal feed. It serves livestock farmers, especially pig producers, and also works with food manufacturers that need a responsible outlet for residual streams. The company positions itself around circularity, efficiency, and practical support across the chain.

A central part of Nijsen’s model is its Food-For-Feed approach: collecting and processing former food products such as bread, bakery items, sweets, dough, pasta, syrups, and sauces into high-quality feed ingredients and finished feeds. Nijsen says it has been doing this for more than 35 years and processes over 100,000 tonnes of former food products annually into animal feed.

Core Values

• Circularity: Nijsen emphasizes keeping nutrients in the food chain by converting residual food streams into feed. Its Food for Feed for Food approach is presented as a way to reduce waste and make better use of existing resources.
• Efficiency and rendement: The company repeatedly frames its offering around better financial and operational returns for farmers and food businesses. It highlights lower feed costs, lower manure disposal costs, and improved production results.
• Sustainability: Nijsen links its work to lower CO2 emissions, reduced land use, less imported raw material, and a smaller environmental footprint. It presents circular feed as a practical contribution to a more sustainable food system.
• Practical service: The company stresses convenience, logistics, hygiene, and taking work off the customer’s hands. It offers collection, transport, traceability, and documentation support so customers can focus on their core business.

Unique Aspects

• Only Dutch specialist in this niche: Nijsen states that it is the only specialist in the Netherlands processing side streams from the food industry into unique Food-For-Feed raw materials.
• Longstanding circular feed pioneer: The company says it was the first feed manufacturer in the Netherlands to start processing former food products such as bread, cookies, sweets, and pastries into circular animal feed, more than 35 years ago.
• Integrated logistics and traceability: Nijsen operates its own storage, installations, trucks, and drivers, and offers track-and-trace visibility from the production line to the farmer’s barn.
• Certified handling of residual streams: The company says it is GMP+ and QS certified, and that it can take over much of the paperwork and quality assurance required for supplying residual streams into feed.
• Lean & Green recognition: Nijsen says it has held a first Lean & Green Star since 29 March 2023, reflecting efforts to reduce CO2 in logistics.
• Named collaboration with Global Food Group and Global Feed Mill: Nijsen’s knowledge base mentions a 2022 collaboration with these partners to develop sustainable, circular concepts for customers in the Netherlands and beyond.