free amino acids are essential for life and for a satisfactory nutritional balance.
They also have numerous functionalities that are beneficial to health, both for the human species and for the animal and plant kingdoms.
The company designs and produces pure or mixed amino acids with proven performance properties, produced under the control of a rigorous quality approach with a permanent concern for continuous improvement.
of products sold in 2020 contribute to applications
to improve human health or the nutrition and health of animals and plants. This represents 88.5% of our turnover.
Our R&D team, specialised by market, is intensifying the Proven Performance approach both in terms of the number of studies carried out and scientific publications, enabling us to develop collaborations with customers and to support them in the development of new products that contribute to Nutrition and Health.
a research and development approach since 2017
In 2020, 51 trials were carried out in the various fields to better understand the mechanisms of action and specify the performance of ingredients and active ingredients. The R&D teams rely on collaborative work with public and private research teams located in Europe, South East Asia and Latin America. All trials carried out are subject to the prior approval of an ethics committee.
In 2020, 7 articles were published in technical and scientific journals and since 2018, 6 patents have been filed to protect the company’s know-how.
quality and our certifications
Our strategy, focused on the Pharmaceutical and Nutrition-Health markets, aims to make BCF Life Sciences a hyperspecialist recognized by its customers for its unique and innovative nutritional solutions in terms of “traced” Quality aimed at :
The operational reliability that we aim to achieve encompasses the aspects of safety, quality, environment and customer service rate.
To meet these two challenges, we rely on operational excellence and performance management. This performance management is implemented in a coherent and coordinated manner and irrigates each sector of the plant. It links the company’s strategy to each production line.
Each year, around ten operational objectives are defined for the industrial perimeter covering the requirements of operational reliability (Safety, Quality, Environment, Service rate and capacity development).