Boortmalt Group

The Boortmalt group, fully owned subsidiary of the Epis-Centre group is amongst the top 10 industrial malt producers in the world and number 4 in Europe with a total of 560 000 tons of malt produced per year.
The long-standing know-how in the malting industry, acknowledged by most of the international brewers and other malt users is strengthened by high performance tools. Direct links to important barley producing areas combined with its location in a major port for the supply of international markets make the Boortmalt Group a reliable partner in the brewing industry, locally, regionally & internationally. Large storage capacities in Antwerp, some dedicated exclusively to malt, round up the picture.



 


Boortmalt Group,
total quality and development

Worldwide beer consumption is increasing by 2.5% a year on average.
This significant increase, which may be slightly larger or smaller from one year to the next, has continued for 25 years in a row and is due to continue for the next 10 to 25 years. To meet consumer demands, brewers are boosting their business worldwide by merging & acquisitions and building new breweries. Upstream, Boortmalt is expanding and reinforcing its malt production, brewing barley supplies and logistical activities to satisfy its local, regional and international brewer customers.

Boortmalt currently produces 560,000 tons of malt in 4 malting plants across Europe and 1 in China.
 




Philippe Lehrmann,
Chief Commercial Officer.
Aside from our small activity in China that supplies only the local market, we have a strong presence in south-east Europe and the Balkans with our plants in Dunaùjvàros and Nova Gradiska, and through our export facilities at Sobelgra, in the port of Antwerp, in Belgium, we can supply all the major international markets from our plants in Issoudun and Antwerp. The 520,000 tons we produce each year in Europe, is dispatched to the European Community, to European countries outside of the European Community, to South and Central America, to Africa and to Asia.
Optimise production
Giovanni Vercammen,
Chief Operations
Officer-Maltings
Our headquarters and main production site are based in Antwerp, a second malting plant is located center of France in the city of Issoudun, amidst barley cultivating areas, a third is based in Croatia, east of Zagrheb, close to the Serbian and Bosnia-Herzegovina border in the city of Nova Gradiska, and the fourth plant is located in Budapest, not far from the Danube river banks.This currently ranks Boortmalt number 4 in Europe and among the ten largest malting plants in the world.


 


Boortmalt n.v. Antwerp
in Belgium :
240 000 tons.
The future Antwerp Boortmalt site in 2009 Each month you can see the evolution of the construction


Developing in step with the market
The stable increase in beer consumption worldwide and the changing needs of brewers, due to their grouping together, announce a promising future for the development of the malt business. The last two campaigns have showed the strategic importance of brewing barley supplies. In this regard, Boortmalt intends to strengthen its position in its specialities: from barley production control right through to "customer dispatch" logistics.


Philippe Lehrmann - Chief Commercial Officer.
" Our strategy then is to assist and supply more high value malt to our key customers, in line with their demands. This is achieved through our barley sourcing abilities, state-of-the-art high-quality producing malt plant and obviously efficient logistics which once again give us an advantage over many other competitors in terms of export. The export market is the one that is expanding the most".







The Epis-Centre Group

Epis-Centre is a French farmers co-operative with 8,000 active members, historically rooted in the Berry, 200km south of Paris, and one of the major malting barley production areas in the center of France. Epis-Centre controls farm supplies including seed production, and collects 2.5 million tons of grain (cereals & oilseed). Moreover, it markets and moves 5 million tons through Granit Négoce its trading and logistic subsidiary. Its holding “Ariane” controls the processing sector including malting, flour milling, feed mills, crushing, bio fuels and bakeries. These activities represent 40% of the total group turnover. Via a financial structure, farmers are also direct genuine share holders in the processing sector. This construction gives a strong financial back up to the healthy balance sheet of the Boortmalt group.
 
   
BOORTMALT NV Malt & Silos - Zandvoort 2 - Haven 350 - B-2030 ANTWERP - BELGIUM
Tel. + 32 3 / 545 04 11 - Fax + 32 3 / 542 05 82
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