History

Rodenburg Biopolymers is a family owned business with a long and lively history. The first generation established the company in 1945. The activities were products and services for the animal food industry. After many successful product and process innovations in this sector, we started to developing the bioplastic Solanyl, foreseeing the challenges of an increasing supply of by-products and stabilizing demand in the animal feed sector. We believed it would be possible to upgrade these products to high quality yet price competitive biodegradable materials. It would also offer our suppliers a better alternative for their products.

Today, the third generation has entered the company. The production of Solanyl® started in Bergschenhoek (western Netherlands) with our specialty plant in 1999. The company was relocated in 2001 to Oosterhout (south-western Netherlands) and at this location a modern production facility with a large production volume was established. This site set-up delivers us the production flexibility and capacity necessary to be able to offer our customers excellent service levels, product availability and constant high quality.

Rodenburg has developed during the last decennia, but as though it looks like our past and current processes are unrelated, we would like to prove the opposite: our raw materials have remained the same, by-products from food processing industry. This is one of the key advantages of our product: Solanyl does not compete with food-products or scarce land for food and is biobased.

Rodenburg Biopolymers is eager to continuously innovate. We are always looking for opportunities to improve our product and to fulfill the every day increasing demands of our customers. Technical support is one of the key factors to make a new product like bioplastics a success. Together with our prospects and customers we are constantly looking for sustainable and economically feasible solutions for the future. We can rely on our own well developed R&D department and experience. Rodenburg Biopolymers is also in close contact with a prominent research network, including ASFG, TU Eindhoven and many others.