Food industry

  • Leader in organic farming
  • Suppliers and service providers in close proximity
  • 100 percent green value chain

Industry in brief

As the most important industrial sector in the state with around 16,000 employees, the food industry generates more than one-third of total sales in the state's manufacturing sector. The food industry in the north of eastern Germany is characterized by innovation, productivity and quality. In addition, there are excellently trained and motivated employees with high regional company loyalty. Furthermore, there are efficient network structures between industry, universities and scientific institutions as well as well-developed logistical infrastructures with direct links to international markets.

Best ingredients for your settlement

With generous support programs, intensive research and development, qualified specialists and a productive industry network, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern gets your food investments off the ground.

  • Funding

    Technology, innovation and collaborative research are generously funded in MV. In addition, the acquisition and production costs of new assets are subsidized. The state provides up to 45 percent for the establishment of a business facility. As a full-service provider, we support you in applying for subsidies from MV and the EU. Please do not hesitate to contact us.

  • Workforce and networks

    Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences has extensive expertise in applied research and development, especially in the fields of agricultural economics and food technology, agricultural economics, agricultural marketing, crop production, the entire production chain, and regional development. Here, young people in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Food Science are trained to become modern specialists who can meet the demands of food production. In addition, innovative research projects are realized with regional and international partners from the food industry. Companies in the food industry can thus count on first-class graduates with practical experience.

    The Marketing Association of the Agricultural and Food Industry Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e. V. (AMV) is active on behalf of producers, processors and manufacturers of foodstuffs and luxury foods in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

    The association has established itself in the highest-turnover sector of the processing industry in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - the agricultural and food industry. As the largest network of the state's food industry, the AMV organizes joint marketing activities and focuses on sustainable sales promotion and lobbying.

    The food industry is growing continuously and consolidating its position as a leading industry in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. To ensure that this remains the case, well-trained and motivated specialists are indispensable. Finding and retaining skilled workers is the central challenge facing companies and is therefore the focus of the Food Academy. The association bundles capacities and requirements, ensures an exchange of experience between companies, develops solution strategies and implements concrete steps to make the industry attractive as an employer. Today, 21 companies with over 3,500 employees are already involved in the association.

  • Research and development

    Proteins everywhere you look - we are already working today on the nutritional concepts of tomorrow. Plant-derived proteins from legumes such as blue lupin and pea or proteins based on mealworms demonstrate the innovative strength of the food industry in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The state can boast several research institutes with a reputation in the food industry.

    Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences has been active in the field of food technology for more than 30 years. Its research projects aim to make the food production chain healthier and more sustainable. For many such projects, the Center for Nutrition and Food Technology (ZELT) has been able to attract industrial partners. In this way, findings from institutional research can be transferred to industry. Numerous regional companies have benefited from this so far.

    A "Center for Biogenic Value Creation and Smart Farming" is being established in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania under the umbrella of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. The total funding amounts to 60 million euros. The center will research and develop innovative technologies for sustainable agriculture along the entire value chain - from seed to refined product, both on land and in water. The goal is a holistic change in agriculture toward innovative processing concepts. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the focus is on the application of artificial intelligence and visualization in the context of agricultural practice in order to promote sustainable, resource-conserving and emission-reducing agriculture.

    In cooperation with an agricultural trade group, the project "Physics for Food - a region rethinks!" was launched in 2018 by Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences and the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Research and Technology e. V. (INP). It comprises lead projects that develop physical innovations for various areas of agriculture and food processing. They address topics of physical processes for seed treatment, treatment of plants and crop yields, and optimization of plant raw materials for the food & feed sector. The aim of each of the three areas is to optimize product quality, reduce or replace chemical substances and strengthen against diseases, pests or environmental influences.

  • investment location MV

    Economic production, processing and distribution are the business of today; innovation and ecology are the success parameters for tomorrow.

    In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, investors are connected to the whole world.

    • Transportation hub in central Baltic Sea location:
      • Rostock/Laage cargo airport, 24/7 operations, connecting flights all over the world.
      • Perfect connections via domestic highways
      • Worldwide import and export via the ports of Hamburg, Rostock with car terminal, Wismar and Sassnitz/Mukran
      • Daily ferry connections to Scandinavia and the Baltic States
      • Efficient rail logistics to Italy, Austria and the Czech Republic
    • Infrastructure and sustainability
    • Raw material resources in the region
    • Research, education and skilled workers

These companies are already in MV

  • Anklam Extract

    Anklam Extrakt produces and distributes high-quality plant extracts for the pharmaceutical, food, cosmetics and beverage industries. The extracts are obtained from large quantities of dried plants. The company, which is part of the Swiss Rehau Group, ...

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  • Cargill Deutschland

    The U.S. company Cargill operates one of the world's most modern production facilities for pectin in Malchin in the northwest of the Mecklenburg Lake District. 120 employees produce thickening and stabilizing agents here. These are exported from here ...

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  • Continental Bakeries

    Grabower is a traditional German brand of chocolate kisses since 1835, originating in Mecklenburg in the town of the same name Grabow. In the 1950s, Grabower's fame increased due to the production of handmade foam kisses. Currently, the Grabow ...

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  • Cosun Beet Company

    The Dutch CBC Anklam not only looks back on a long history, but also on an impressive production development. Currently, around 340 farms supply around 1.8 million tons of beets. These are then processed into 150,000 metric tons of white sugar during ...

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  • Dr. Oetker Tiefkühlprodukte

    At the end of 1992, the company opened one of the largest pizza factories in Europe at the Wittenburg site in western Mecklenburg. More than 750,000 frozen pizzas are produced here every day. Every year, approximately 260 million frozen pizzas are ...

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  • INOVA Protein

    INOVA Protein stands for a sustainably produced protein source from insects for the nutrition of humans and animals. The company pays particular attention to species-appropriate animal husbandry under state-of-the-art conditions in order to guarantee ...

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  • Nestlé Deutschland AG

    The Swiss Nestlé Group opened a plant in Schwerin in western Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in 2014. The company used the fully developed land in the industrial park to build the largest and most modern production site for Nescafé Dolce Gusto capsules in ...

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  • Prolupin

    Prolupin GmbH was founded in 2010 as a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging. The company produces food ingredients from lupins in Grimmen using a patented process. Since 2013, Prolupin has been successfully ...

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  • SprayCom

    In 2012, the Hamburg-based company Willy Benecke GmbH chose Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as its new production site. The excellent connection to the Port of Hamburg, through which the company imports raw material, played an important role in the decision. ...

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  • SternMaid

    The SternMaid plant in Wittenburg near Hamburg, which has been expanded several times since 1998 and employs 300 people, is one of the most modern facilities of its kind. Three fully automatic mixing lines, four semi-automatic multifunctional mixing ...

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