Overview Lactalis Ingredients Pharma

Lactalis Group, world’s leader of the dairy industry

Lactalis Ingredients Pharma arises from the rich history of Lactalis Group, starting from its birth in Laval, France, in 1933. Since then, the vocation of the Group has been to transform milk in all its forms to offer healthy and tasty products to the broadest range of consumers.

Dedicated to valorizing every milk component through dairy ingredients powders, Lactalis Ingredients is recognized for its technical, industrial and market expertise. Lactose, as one of the most important nutrients in milk and whey, has always been at the heart of Lactalis Ingredient’s attention. Lactalis Ingredients has been producing lactose for more than 50 years, while enriching its expertise over the decades through the merge and purchase of industrial facilities.

Lactalis Ingredients, a historical and renowned lactose supplier

At CPhI 2025 in Frankfurt we had the chance for an introduction interview with Argann Pensec from Lactalis Ingredients Pharma:

Your French trusted pharmaceutical lactose partner

Lactalis Ingredients Pharma shares Lactalis Group’s vision of delivering the best to our customers. Benefiting from the experience and technology of decades of commitment and passion, we are able today to enter the excipients’ market as a trusted pharmaceutical lactose supplier with our first range of excipients: Lactalpha.

• EXPERTISE
• QUALITY
• RELIABILITY

At Lactalis Ingredients Pharma, we are driven by the wish of valorizing every crystal of lactose to its purest, most wholesome state, to simply deliver excellence.

Located in western France, our Retiers plant is at the heart of the French milk production, and conveniently situated close to our whey collection area. Thanks to the proximity of our raw materials, we can guarantee a safe and consistent pharmaceutical grade lactose supply everywhere and at any time. It is in our roots to be able to continuously manufacture and supply our customers with a reliable quality of lactose. Through our strong values, we participate actively to secure the drug supply chain.

Our state-of-the-art lactose production site

Efficient, reliable and certified production installations

The quality of our excipients is supported by the environment in which they are produced in France. The collaborators are involved in setting the best stage for our lactose to be produced and are provided with the optimum environment and equipment to do so.

Renowned certifications

Beyond our engineering performance, we also bear an ongoing commitment to pharmaceutical quality, thus providing our customers with full transparency and an unparalleled satisfaction guarantee through a constant risk evaluation and control of the change.

Test and product analysis profit from controls managed by our partners in trusted laboratories.

Our teams are trained to follow the strict certifications required by the pharmaceutical market.

Our pharmaceutical grade lactose has been developed by our teams surrounded by experts so that our excipients are fitted to your needs and the market’s requirements.

Discover our Lactalpha references

• STABILITY
• HOMOGENEITY
• CONSISTENCY
• EFFICIENCY

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