European Protein is founded by the Legarth-family
European Protein is founded to intensify the focus on the animal production industry with a dried and funtional fermented plant protein.
ABOUT EUROPEAN PROTEIN
European Protein is an innovative producer of fermented proteins tailored to enhance the health and productivity of pigs, poultry and aquaculture raised for food production.
The family-owned company was founded in Denmark in 2011. Today, its production facilities in Denmark, Ukraine and the US supply farmers and feed producers worldwide with complementary animal protein feed.
At European Protein, we aspire to deliver tomorrow’s solution today. As a result, we invest in state-of-the-art research to provide you with cutting-edge feed solutions to solve environmental, economic and welfare challenges in animal production.
People
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Jens Legarth
CEO
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: +45 23 34 93 34
Jens is educated in Farming and Export. He has been working in the animal production industry for more than 30 years, of which more than two decades centred around feed fermentation. In 2011 Jens and Lone founded European Protein. Jens works with international sales, lectures in fermentation and participates in many international projects to improve animal health and protein replacement.
Anne Hollænder Kristensen
Quality Coordinator
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: +45 29 66 93 34
Anne has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Biotechnology. She is also educated in agriculture specialising in cattle and has furthermore worked on a pig farm. She will be in charge of the Quality Assurance of our fermented protein.
Rene Schepens
Director
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: +31 6 51 33 45 56
Rene is Agricultural Engineer specialised in pigs and has more than three decades of experience from the industry, working as an Advisor, Commercial Director and Co-owner in an animal nutrition company. Rene works from his office in Holland.
Thomas Pedersen
Sales Director
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: +45 21419334
Thomas has an education in Export and has been Sales Director in European Protein for more than ten years. Thomas is responsible for all international sales through all channels.
Jeppe Skovgaard Eskildsen
Sales Manager
phone: +45 29 62 19 30
Jeppe joined the sales team in February 2020 as a sales manager with responsibility for functional proteins targeted gamebirds and deer. For five years Jeppe has been a gamekeeper trainee and completes his education in Wildlife management in 2021.
Kasper Legarth
Sales Manager
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: +45 40 18 93 34
Kasper works as a sales manager, responsible for Denmark and South America. Kasper has in-depth and hands-on experience from geese- and pig farming. He has followed Sales Management courses, before starting at European Protein in 2014.
Lone Legarth
Finance and Administration Manager
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: +45 23 37 33 50
In 2011 Lone and Jens founded European Protein. Lone is responsible for all administration and finance. She has an education in nursing but shifted to an administrative position in the feed industry in 2008.
Belinda Theodora Holm Dam Jeppesen
Finance & Administration Assistant
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: +45 51 29 90 34
Belinda holds a Diploma in Finance & Accounting and started in European Protein in 2015. She has previously been working in the industry as a financial assistant and as an external bookkeeping consultant. Belinda handles bookkeeping, orders and sales supporter.
Pia Sørensen
Nutrition Development Director
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: +45 25 34 04 04
Pia is our Nutrition Development Director. Pia has previously worked as a consultant at Svinerådgivningen, and most recently as Area Sales Manager at AB Neo. Pia gives advice for European Protein’s customers and works to link data on gut health to productivity growth in the barn.
Rikke Matthiesen
Project Manager
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: +45 29 11 34 91
Rikke is a chemical and biotechnology engineer. She has previously worked within the food industry. Rikke started working for us in 2020 where her most important task is to manage European Protein’s knowledge database, which consists of all microbiome, colostrum, blood and serum samples from our costumers’ herds.
Ninfa Rangel Pedersen
Senior Scientist
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: +45 21 22 93 34
Ninfa is our Senior Research Scientist and holds an MSc. in Biochemistry and a PhD in Enzyme Biotechnology. Before joining our team, Ninfa worked within the enzyme industry for more than twenty years, doing research on the mode-of-action of enzymes for applications within the food, cosmetic and health industries.
Maja Nygaard
R&D Engineer
e-mail: [email protected]
tlf: +45 93 39 93 30
Maja has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Biotechnology and she has previously studied Molecular Biology. She is responsible of the Quality Assurance of our fermented proteins at the factory in Jelling.
Maria Almind
International Marketing Manager
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: +45 31 20 23 33
Maria holds a BSc in Business Administration and Marketing Management. She has a background from the electronics industry as a Product and Marketing Manager. Maria is responsible for communication and marketing in European Protein.
Anders Legarth
Engineer
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: +45 25 32 90 35
Anders is responsible for optimising our production facility and its processes to ensure that we remain at the forefront with the latest and most efficient technologies available.
Oleksii Smilianets
Production Manager
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: +45 21 54 13 34
Oleksii plans the daily production and runs the production team in Denmark.
Jevgen Vorobyov
Production co-worker
e-mail: [email protected]
Jevgen monitors the production process and samples the products to ensure that the enriched protein feed is uniform and of the same high quality. He supplies the production with the necessary raw materials and packs the end-product.
Oleksandr Pershko
Production co-worker
e-mail: [email protected]
Oleksandr monitors the production process and samples the products to ensure that the enriched protein feed is uniform and of the same high quality. He supplies the production with the necessary raw materials and packs the end-product.
Daniel Mircea Todea
Production co-worker
e-mail: [email protected]
Daniel is responsible for cleaning the factory in Jelling. He ensures that both the office, laboratory and production is neat and presentable.
ABOUT EUROPEAN PROTEIN
European Protein is a Danish family-owned protein producer. We work to promote health and productivity for animals through functional and sustainable plant proteins. The company was founded in 2011 and has protein factories in Denmark, Ukraine and the US.
European Protein is GMP+-certified
HEAD QUARTER
European Protein A/S
Vorbassevej 12, 6622 Bække, Denmark
+45 75 38 80 40, [email protected]
VAT No. 33643675
FACTORIES
Denmark
Mangehøje 4, 7300 Jelling, Denmark
+45 75 38 80 40, [email protected]
Ukraine
222-a Vokzalna Street, Rokytne 09600, Kyiv Region, Ukraine
+38 044 390 40 54, [email protected]
USA
1201 N Ellis Rd #7055, Sioux Falls, SD 57107, USA
+1 605-338-9775, [email protected]