Lantmännen
Lantmännen is an agricultural cooperative and Northern Europe’s leader in agriculture, machinery, bioenergy and food products.
Lantmännen is an agricultural cooperative and Northern Europe’s leader in agriculture, machinery, bioenergy and food products.
The Agriculture Sector constitutes Lantmännen's core business and offers products and services to promote strong, competitive farming.
The Energy Sector is Sweden’s largest producer of bioenergy products.
The Food Sector develops, processes and markets products that include flour, breakfast foods, pasta, frozen and fresh bread, crispbread and ready-to-eat meals.
Lantmännen is an agricultural cooperative founded on the deep knowledge our farmers have aquired over generations. We make farming thrive and work together to take responsibility from field to fork.
From our core farming business, through the value chain, from field to fork, we are involved in every step from sowing to harvesting; to the food on our tables, feed for our livestock and climate –smart biofuels.
Owned by Swedish farmers, Sweden is our base with the Baltic Sea area as our expanded domestic market. We have a strong international presence, and no matter which country and location we operate in, we always take the same responsibility.
We pursue research and invest in innovation for tomorrow’s agriculture, bioenergy and foods of the future. Innovations are crucial if we are to resolve the challenges of today and tomorrow, which is why Lantmännen also has its own research foundation.
You´ll find the Lantmännen sprout on our packaging. The products may be different, but everyone can feel safe that we also minimise impact on climate and people. If you find the sprout on a packet, you can be sure what’s inside is Good Food from Lantmännen.
Are you curious about previous Lantmännen's Greenhouse projects?
The Greenhouse have conducted 9 rounds since the start in 2014, and a total of 72 projects have been developed. Read more about previous projects here.
Alice & Jonas, two entrepreneurs from Alingsås in Sweden, realized when they started to eat more green based food that there wasn't any good vegan spread on the market. They decided to create tomorrow's sandwich spread, and suddenly HUJ! was born.
HUJ! participated in the Greenhouse Foodtech round in the autumn of 2018. After a successful participation and pitch to the dragons, Lantmännen decided to invest in the startup, and are now helping the company to scale up on the Swedish market!
One challange Lantmännen faces is the quality control of the grain. Quality defects such as foreign grain, weed seeds, broken and discolored kernels is important to detect. A lot of these analysis is done by trained lab personnel by hand. In order to help the staff a science project started to investigate further applications of image analysis in grain financed partly by Lantmännens R&D.
The results were participating in the Greenhouse, and from this the company Cgrain was started. Cgain sells Cgrain Value, an analytical instrument developed to assess the quality of grain using single kernel analysis. Today the instrument is used by several grain companies and mills all around the world. Read more a www.cgrain.se.
Lantmännen Reppe, a subsidiary of Lantmännen, process wheat into their main products - vital wheat gluten, vodka and ethanol for human consumption, dried and modified starch and feed raw materials. Reppe supply their products mainly to the food industry and the paper industry.
In 2017 Reppe wanted to investigate if they should start producing and selling gluten free wheat starch, a unique product with superior baking proporties compared to other gluten free products. They participated in the Greenhouse and from the program decided to go for it. They are now in the final phase of industrialization and are planning a launch of the product in the end of 2020.