Our history

Our oldest factory dates back to 1897, when it was founded by Mr. Kramer. The factory is named “de Vechtstreek”, a name still proudly worn by the company premises. It was the first factory with complete and continuously operating butter making facilities. As milk production grew in the Netherlands, the factory was expanded and extra activities added. Milk powder has been produced in Ommen since 1928.

Our factory in Leeuwarden was founded in 1912, under the name Lijempf (Leeuwarder IJs and Melkproducten Fabriek). At that time, our factory in Leeuwarden is the headquarters of the Lijempf group, a company that in its heyday consisted of about 19 affiliated dairy factories. In 1943 also Van Heel in Kampen became part of the Lijempf group.

In 1993, Lyempf was taken over by food group Nutricia. At that time, Lyempf mainly produced infant formula and a number of special powders and ice cream mixes. In 1993, 50 people worked in Leeuwarden and 125 in Kampen.

In 1996 the Hyproca Group buys the factory in Ommen: the first link in the entire production chain for infant and toddler nutrition that the group will control five years later.

In 2008, the Hyproca Group becomes the owner of the Kabrita and CBM brands, and, in addition to cow’s milk, also becomes active in goat’s milk. As a result, the Hyproca Group no longer produces for third parties only, but also carries its own brands.

In 2014 Holland Goat Milk B.V., the subsidiary of Ausnutria Hyproca that is responsible for the collection of its goat’s milk, merges with Sanimèl. The companies continue together with a total of 50 affiliated goat farmers. The same year, Ausnutria Hyproca takes a stake in Farmel Dairy B.V. to secure the future supply of cow’s milk from the Netherlands.

After a long and intensive construction period, the new production location in Heerenveen starts producing end of 2017.

With sales offices and distributors in a.i. Europe, Russia, the Middle East, China and the United States, Ausnutria is working on the worldwide availability of its products. Kabrita in particular, is a rapidly growing international brand. In 2019 Ausnutria opens a new international sales office in Mexico.

The onsite can manufacturing plant in Heerenveen becomes operational. A joint success of Ausnutria and Trivium Packaging. This 10,000m² large factory, is equipped with state-of-the-art machines and offers an integrated production process for the production of cans and the packaging of infant formula. This means that it is integrated with the Ausnutria factories on the site in Heerenveen.

Ausutria’s new & sustainable drying tower will become operational at the end of 2024. The new drying tower will soon form an integrated and sustainable process for the production of base powder for infant formula.