The way to change the world with wheat: Welcome to Crespel & Deiters!
There are endless possibilities in a small grain of wheat. Wheat is so much more than just a staple food. The whole grain allows a variety of uses that optimize industrial foods and their production, making them more productive. End products become more sustainable, natural, and economic with our functional wheat-based products.
Crespel & Deiters. Passionate about wheat. Since 1858.
We are a family-owned company established in 1858. The Crespel & Deiters Group is one of the leading producers of wheat starches and wheat proteins in Europe. With our functional products, we create added value for our industrial customers in the manufacture of their end products. More than 400 employees work to achieve the company’s goals of high quality, treating nature responsibly, customer orientation, and reliability.
Serving the U.S. food industry with excellent food ingredients
For over 165 years, our thinking, development, and actions have been focused on the sustainable raw material wheat and its processing into innovative solutions made from wheat starch and wheat proteins. We break down wheat into the wheat-based products wheat starches, wheat proteins, wheat fibers etc. and refine them into highly functional products.
Now the innovative wheat-based products and solutions made in Germany are also available directly in the USA! Welcome to Crespel & Deiters USA!
Start taking food further
By maximizing the use of renewable raw materials and creating innovative solutions, we enable our customers to achieve more output with less input and conserve our planet’s resources.
Our core values of responsibility, progressiveness, and perseverance guide our actions:
- Responsibility … goes hand in hand with commitment, top performance, and reliability.
- Progressiveness … arises from the balance between sustainability, further development, and success.
- Perseverance … is strengthened by healthy self-confidence, initiative, and patience.
Our path from grain to solution: the Crespel & Deiters value chain
When we say that we offer our customers the best German quality and innovative solutions, we back this up with our end-to-end value chain. From purchasing the wheat to delivering the customized product to our end customers, everything is in our hands.
And once at our customer’s site, our wheat-based products and solutions ensure added value in production and increase the quality of the end product. Each of our wheat-based products and solutions contains the concentrated power of wheat and 165 years of German quality and innovation.
Our success is the sum of a passion for what we do, a love of the raw material, and our close relationships to our customers.
Our high-performance raw material: 100% wheat from Europe
Reliable supply of European wheat
- Non-GMO
- Certified quality and safety
- Consistent product quality despite natural fluctuations in the raw material
- Reliable availability of the renewable, natural raw material
- Risk minimization through consistent product quality
Our production: our German headquarters
We extract starch and protein from wheat, then refine them by modifying and mixing them into functional products for food and technical applications.
- Plant size: 67,000 m²
- Raw material use p.a.: 370,000 t of wheat
- Energy efficiency of 92%. Natural gas-fueled CHP plants generate the required heat and electrical energy with the highest possible efficiency.
- We use 99% of every wheat grain—we get the maximum out of the renewable raw material wheat.
Our quality & safety: from nature to nature
From the start, the Crespel & Deiters Group has followed a consistent quality strategy, satisfying the highest quality requirements.
- ISO 9001 – Quality management
- ISO 14001 – Environmental management
- FSSC 22000 – Food safety
- ISO 50001 – Energy management system
All processing steps are analysed, inspected, and evaluated.
Permanent product availability is ensured through structured processes and far-sighted planning.
Individual product groups fulfill further certifications:
- Halal
- Kosher
Outstanding refining technologies: extrusion and modification
Extrusion
- Since 1998, extrusion of wheat, cereals and other protein-rich raw materials into innovative products that differ in composition, shape, flavor, and texture
- Technical center with laboratory extruder and ability to scale up on four modern production lines
- Extrusion in the food industry is a complex thermomechanical process in which a product is pressed through a predefined opening using pressure and temperature, yet retains its shape at the end. Extrusion opens up a wide range of design possibilities for the end consumer product in terms of taste, shape, nutritional composition, bulk density, texture, and color.
Modification
- Crespel & Deiters has specialized in the liquid modification of wheat starch for 45 years.
- Our experienced R&D team develops new starch products that meet the requirements of our industrial customers.
We think global. We work German. We supply America.
Crespel & Deiters is the expert for wheat-based starches and proteins. We combine deep expertise in research and development with broad application know-how. Our functional wheat-based ingredients sustainably improve the quality, nutritional value, production, and cost-effectiveness of industrially produced foods. We also support the American food industry locally to optimize its products and implement new, modern food concepts. Our subsidiary Crespel & Deiters Food USA LP has been based in Chicago, Illinois, since it was founded in 2023, where American food manufacturers can order high-quality wheat-based solutions directly in the USA.