Leiber celebrates its anniversary with over 200 partners, friends and employees – 70 years of sustainable upcycling of brewer’s yeast

The Spanish Aplicaciones Biologicas a la Nutricion S.L., ABN, and the German Leiber GmbH are joining forces on the European Market for food and feed products derived from brewers´ yeast.

Vitafoods 2024, the world-renowned trade fair for nutraceuticals, took place in Geneva for the last time this year and was a great success.

When Franz Leiber founded the company that now bears his name on 6 March 1954, the word upcycling didn’t yet exist. The founder’s basic idea of obtaining valuable extracts from secondary beer brewing streams was also innovative. Leiber is now a globally networked specialist for brewers’ yeast, and develops ingredients for biotechnology, the food industry, […]

The horse feed market is growing due to the increasing horse population worldwide. Especially the market for health related supplements and treats. Brewers’ yeast is a tried and tested feed ingredient with a long tradition in horse feeding and many benefits such as promoting digestion, skin, hoof, coat and metabolism, as well as fertility. However, […]

Leiber presented its wide range of Interyeast^® Vital Brewers’ Yeast products with a high vitamin B content at Europe’s biggest nutraceuticals trade fair.

Leiber met its customers and partners face to face again in Asia.

Since the beginning of 2023, Leiber has been a member of the BalPro Association for Alternative Protein Sources (“Verband für alternative Proteinquellen”). On 30 January, 2023, BalPro made the official announcement that Leiber is a new member of the association. Our company was featured on the BalPro website and on social networks such as LinkedIn. […]

To kick off 2023, Leiber is establishing a cross-functional marketing approach and stepping up its international sales in the Life Science Business Unit.   Karolin Kreutzer has been heading up Leiber’s cross-sector marketing department since 1.1.2023. As a trained advertising specialist and an experienced saleswoman, she previously represented Leiber’s Nutraceuticals Business Unit as its Global […]

Following the forced hiatus caused by the coronavirus pandemic, visitors at the EuroTier trade fair were delighted to engage in face-to-face talks again.

In future, Leiber will use waste wood to generate a large proportion of the heat energy and about one third of the electricity required for its production operations in Engter, Lower Saxony. To this end, the brewers’ yeast specialist is investing around 14 million euros in a new biomass power plant.   Regarding the start […]

In September 2022, Leiber inaugurated a completely new drying plant for brewers’ yeast in Krosniewice – which coincided with the company’s 20th anniversary of entrepreneurial involvement in Poland. The employees at Krosniewice celebrated this dual achievement with local politicians and business representatives, and 15 colleagues from the headquarters in Bramsche. Katarzyna Erdman, the mayor of […]

Vegan beef broths, high-quality proteins to fortify plant-based drinks and salt reduction based on Leiber’s yeast product portfolio, were product solutions that particularly convinced the visitors at Leiber’s booth at Food Ingredients FI Asia in Jakarta in September 2022.

Visit us at the EuroTier in Hanover, in hall 20, stand number B58, from November 15th to 18th, 2022

Sustainable management is not a mere aspiration at Leiber, it is put into practice every day – which the “ZNU Sustainable Management” certificate now verifies. Brewers’ yeast specialist Leiber passed its first independent audit without reservation.   “We are proud to be able to present our sustainability promise now with signed and sealed authentication”, says […]

Leiber’s new company headquarter in Bramsche-Engter is taking shape. In the future, the brewers’ yeast specialist will be bundling its Food, Life Science and Animal Nutrition Business Units, its in-house research and development facility and its administration under one roof at the new Leiber Campus – in the direct neighbourhood of its existing production facilities. […]

By means of specifically defined aims for sustainable operation, Leiber is taking further steps towards sustainability.

Life Science was at the heart of the Leiber presence at the biggest food ingredients exhibition ‘Food ingredients Europe’ (FiE) in Frankfurt. Under the umbrella of the new business unit ‘Life Science’ Leiber combines and develops all its product solutions for biotechnology, food and nutraceuticals.

Sustainability is one of the core concepts behind production at Leiber: refining brewers’ yeast into innovative products for people and animals. To continue this upcycling into the future, Leiber has decided to have its German production sites certified according to the ZNU Standard for Driving Sustainable Change in the future.

Modern, emotional and open – these are the words we would use to describe the new Leiber logo. We have carefully refreshed our word/image logo to represent the modern positioning of the medium-sized specialist in brewers’ yeast: continuity, innovation and sustainability.

Since 2003, Leiber has operated a plant in Krośniewice, Poland, where about 30 employees extract various good quality yeasts for human and animal consumption. From April 2022, a new spray tower will be provided for this purpose, in which the liquid brewers’ yeast – the starting material for product solutions – can be dried efficiently.