BRAIN Biotech Group

BRAIN Biotech AG is the parent company of the BRAIN Biotech Group. The location in Zwingenberg, Germany, serves as the head office and as an innovation center for the BRAIN Biotech Group. Its focus lies on research and development in the field of bioactive natural products, customized enzymes and high-performance microorganisms for group companies and for partners and customers in industry alike. Established in 1993, the company was transformed into a stock corporation in 2000 and went public in 2016. BRAIN Biotech possesses cutting-edge laboratories and technologies for scaling up to cubic meter scale.

AnalytiCon Discovery is an independent commercial unit of BRAIN Biotech AG with many years of R&D expertise in natural product chemistry. The Potsdam-based operation site specializes in small molecule compounds and offers customers from the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food and agricultural sectors the development of substance libraries, the identification of active ingredients and their synthetic optimization as well as the production of active ingredients on a commercial scale. AnalytiCon has been part of the BRAIN Biotech Group since 2013.

Biocatalysts Ltd. focuses on developing, producing, obtaining approvals for and distributing specialty enzymes. The company provides the rapid, cost-efficient and customized development of novel enzymes and owns the MetXtra™ metagenome library, which allows the rapid identification of tailored enzymatic solutions. With state-of-the-art enzyme production facilities and international sales structures at its disposal, Biocatalysts also offers its customers a portfolio for the direct purchasing of enzymes in several defined fields of application. Established in 1983, Biocatalysts has been a member of the BRAIN Group since 2018.

BIOSUN Biochemicals Inc. (BIOSUN FFI) operates as a distributor, blender, and manufacturer of a complete range of food ingredients, including flavors, enzymes, natural colors and specialty food ingredients. The company serves as one of Givaudan’s primary U.S. distributors for compounded flavors in select industries. BIOSUN FFI joined the BRAIN Group as of the first of January 2021 becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of BRAIN Biotech AG.

Breatec is a by application technology driven company for all kind of applications in the cereal and baking industry. The company is based in Nieuwkuijk, close to the Belgium and German borders, surrounded by many leading international industrial food companies. From there Breatec services its customers globally.
Within the team Breatec has experienced people educated in milling, bakery (bread baking, fine bakery in it’s widest form, pasta /noodle industry etc.) as well in the fundamentals of the functional ingredients required for these markets. The company is FSSC 22.000. All products are certified Kosher and Halal, and for the emulsifiers Breatec is RSPO certified.

WeissBioTech GmbH is a leading provider of tailored ready-to-use Enzymes for the Food and Beverages Industries, as well as related markets. From its centrally located state-of-the-art manufacturing site near Frankfurt Germany, WeissBioTech supplies to multinational food brands and private label manufacturers of fruit juices, wine and beer, and processors of sugar, starch, potable alcohol and bioethanol. WBT was founded in 2002 and has been a member of the BRAIN Group since 2014.