Palsgaard at a glance

The history of Palsgaard

Palsgaard's roots go back to the day when, in 1908, the entrepreneur Einar Viggo Schou (1866 -1925) returned to Denmark from the UK in search of a 'beautiful place to live'. He found his dream in the majestic 12th century Palsgaard estate with its fabulous, fairy-tale manor house and breathtaking scenery of forests and coastlines. He purchased it from revenues earned as part owner of Southall, the world's largest margarine factory at the time, and from inventing the revolutionary cooling-drum process for the manufacture of margarine emulsions in the UK. The Palsgaard factory and headquarters are today situated on the estate, with further manufacturing plants in China, the Netherlands and Mexico and plans now in place to build a brand-new factory in Malaysia. 

The Schou Foundation

Palsgaard is owned by the Schou Foundation, the main purpose of which is to operate by supporting relevant research for industry and development and to maintain the Palsgaard Estate for the overall benefit of its employees and the local community. Being owned by a foundation gives Palsgaard the freedom to take a more holistic, long-term view on investments and activities, as opposed to focusing solely on financial performance. 

Our products and knowledge

Palsgaard are specialists in the manufacture and supply of stabilizers and emulsifiers for bakery, confectionery, dairy, fine foods and sauces, ice cream and margarine. Palsgaard has a thorough, international knowledge of the sector and a wide breadth of experience, and is keen to share it! 

Emulsifiers and stabilizers

We manufacture emulsifiers that can improve and adapt your products to meet a very wide range of customer needs, including: 

• Reduced fat
• Leaner labels
• Structure and stability
• Softness
• Shelf life
• Nutrition
• Moisture content
• Spreadability
• Viscosity
• Mouth feel and texture  

Further capabilities

Whether you are looking for adherence, creaminess, melting resistance, flavour release or even chewiness in your product, both emulsifiers and stabilizers are extremely capable and diverse products that can have a huge influence on the design and performance of your product. 

100 years of experience

With nearly 100 years of experience, the name of Palsgaard has become synonymous with the supply of emulsifiers and stabilizers to the global confectionery, dairy, ice cream, bakery, fine food, margarine, shortenings, meat and related food industries. 

Quality management

Palsgaard's production facilities produce emulsifiers in strict compliance with the quality control requirements of HACCP and ISO 22000, ISO/TS 22002-1 plus FSSC 22000.

Why we are 'heart working'

Palsgaard was founded on a strong philosophy of loyalty, commitment and responsibility, and this still lives in the heart of every employee today. We consider ourselves to be genuinely 'heart working' people, meaning that what we do comes from the heart and comes to us naturally as our way of working and thinking. This commitment is reflected in our continuous achievements in meeting and exceeding the most challenging of our customers' needs and ultimate goals. 

Global application test centres

At the core of Palsgaard customer service are our application facilities, where our professional teams are able to simulate actual production conditions at a customer's plant. Our aim is to turn your product idea into a finished product as fast as possible. In our test centres, we can jointly develop new food products or improve existing food quality and nutritional profiles or optimize customer processes. By creating a development environment that is almost identical to the real manufacturing world, we dramatically speed up the process from your initial concept to production. 

Test centres around the world

We have created application facilities to ensure we can match local market trends and requirements. Our centres are based in: 

• Denmark
• Singapore
• Mexico
• China  

CO₂ neutral by 2020

For Palsgaard, it is very important to contribute to the reduction of CO₂ and ease the strain on the environment. This is natural to our corporate values. Production of emulsifiers requires a large amount of energy and therefore Palsgaard has set itself an ambitious goal to become CO₂ neutral by the year 2020. As one of the steps in this direction, we have, since 1 January 2011, had all our electricity supplied as RECS-certified green energy from newly established wind farms. 

Community spirit

We have a very strong attachment to the local community and our tradition of acting responsibly toward each other, our communities and the environment is key to our philosophy. The core of our business is also to work very closely with our customers worldwide. We see this combination of working passionately at local roots with a wide global perspective as one of our greatest strengths. 

Enviable reputation

Palsgaard is associated with high quality and service, which for us means that our products meet customer expectations for functionality and simultaneously meet the strictest requirements of food safety. We achieve this through our quality assurance procedures and our innovative work, which largely takes place in our application facilities, in close cooperation with customers.