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Enzymes

ENZYMES. EVOLVED.

Delivering sustainable solutions to industry challenges through world-leading
biotechnology facilities and enzyme application expertise.

Enzymes are the ultimate problem-solver

Managing challenges in food & beverage manufacturing and product performance is an everyday commitment. Consumers are driving the need for better nutrition, improved product quality and  longer shelf-life performance. At the same time,  manufacturers must optimise costs and production efficiency. 

The perfect partner does exist

With rising pressures and market saturation, enzymes hold the key to unlocking more, enabling the evolution of product innovation, sustainable nutrition and manufacturing across a broad range of market categories. Our enzymes are the solution to complex industry challenges. 

Explore Enzymes by Application

From manufacturing inefficiencies to unlocking greater nutritional value or enhancing product performance over shelf life, enzymes are the perfect partner to help you tackle the toughest industry challenges.

Alcoholic Beverages 

Kerry’s Brewing and Distilling Solutions can help producers increase production efficiency and achieve sustainability targets.

Explore our innovative and science-backed Brewing and Distilling enzymes and processing aids to address common challenges across the whole operational process.

Creating alcoholic beverages with Enzymes can:

  • Reduce costs
  • Improve processing efficiency
  • Enhance end-product quality and consistency
  • Improve sustainability
  • Increase levels of adjunct
  • Deliver colloidal stability 

Sustainability is key as more consumers want to purchase alcoholic beverages from brands that are visibly solving social issues and addressing the impact they have on the environment.

Discover Kerry’s range of Brewing and Distilling ingredients that enhance operational efficiencies, product performance and quality in high gravity brewing and find out more about

  • Clarification aids
  • Natural cloud systems 
  • Foam control agents 
  • Foam stabilisers 
  • Yeast nutrients

Animal Performance Solutions

Our animal performance enzyme solution is scientifically proven across a wide range of global poultry (broilers, turkeys, layers) and swine production systems to help unlock more nutrients from the diet and deliver higher profitability.  

Enhance monogastric animal growth performance with:  

  • Gained animal body weight 
  • Reduced animal feed conversion ratio  
  • Reduced total feed costs  
  • Improved digestibility of soybean and non-starch polysaccharides 
  • Offered sustainable nutrition solution

Our enzyme solutions for animal performance include:  

  • AlphaGal™ / Agal-Pro: Multi-Carbohydrase multi-component NSPase 
  • NutriXtend™ Optim: Carbohydrase mono-component enzyme with multiple activities 
  • NutriXtend™ ProFit: Alkaline Protease
  • Other enzymes (Amylase, Cellulase, Glucanase, Invertase, Lactase, Lipase, Mannanase, Pectinase, Peroxidase, Protease, Xylanase)

Learn more about  Animal Feed, Nutrition & Performance Solutions | Kerry

Bakery & Snacks

We manufacture enzyme products that address key challenges within the bakery and snack industry. Our enzymes are formulated to work in a range of applications including fine bakery, yeast raised dough, enriched dough, laminated crackers, fermented crackers, biscuits, cookies and wafers. 

Create bakery products that deliver on the following benefits using our Biobake™ and Biobake™ Fresh portfolio: 

  • Fresh Keeping & Shelf-Life Extension 
  • Optimise crumb structure & volume 
  • Dough strengthening 
  • Maintain dough tolerance and resilience during processing and in finished product. 
  • Sustainably reduce food waste 
  • Enhanced product performance 
  • Cleaner labels (Emulsifier replacement)
  • Cost savings

Create snacks products that deliver on the following using our Biobake™ and Acryleast™ Pro portfolio: 

  • Improve texture & uniformity (stack height) 
  • Cost savings through energy and water reduction 
  • Enhance dough process efficiency 
  • Acrylamide reduction 
  • Reduce product breakages in manufacturing
  • Sustainably reduce food waste

Our enzyme solutions for bakery & snacks include: 

Biopharma

Modern biotechnology significantly contributes to the rapid development of a large group of  innovative life-saving medicines, such as Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) and cancer therapies. 
   
Utilizing enzymes in the production processes of small molecules and biologicals decreases the dependency on chemical substances, making these processes more sustainable, cheaper and faster.   

Our enzyme solutions for the biopharma industry encompass a wide range of applications and contribute valuably to new forms of therapy, including gene and cell therapy, as well as the synthesis of APIs. Established production processes allow for the rapid production of even large quantities.  
 
Our biopharma enzymes: 

  • DENARASE® - GMP endonuclease from Serratia marcescens for the production of viral vectors.  
  • DENARASE® High Salt - Engineered version of the wild-type Serratia marcescens endonuclease DENARASE for the production of viral vectors at elevated salt concentrations.  
  • Plug & Play Biocats® - for producing special chemicals and APIs. 

Bioprocessing 

Bioprocessing with enzymes in specialty markets can enhance process efficiencies, optimise the conversion of materials into added value products and support with regulatory compliance for biological processing. 

Enzymes are biological catalysts that enable hydrolysis without the reliance on using harsh chemicals or energy intensive processes, they can provide significant process benefits in specialty markets.  

Create added-value products that have: 

  • Enhanced functionality and nutritional value 
  • Greater bioavailability 
  • Unlocked nutritional value 
  • Improved extract yields 
  • Consistent molecular structure 
  • Upcycled for a more circular economy
  • Less waste byproducts after processing 

Some examples of specialty markets include: 

  • Yeast Processing 
  • Collagen Processing 
  • Algae Hydrolysis – Omega-3 production 
  • Dairy & Plant Hydrolysis 
  • Dietary Supplements 
  • Pet Food Pallatants Production 
  • Animal Performance 
  • Precision Fermentation 

Our enzyme solutions for bioprocessing include: 

  • Bioprotease™ A​ 
  • Bioprotease™ N​ 
  • PAL​ 
  • Profix™​ 
  • PA Conc​ 
  • Hydroprot​ 
  • NuCLEANase​ 

Coffee

Coffee typically contains high levels of acrylamide, a known carcinogen, and the industry is challenged to control levels without impacting quality and taste, while sourcing coffee beans responsibly and processing them sustainably. 

Industry challenges:

  • Processing costs 
  • Acrylamide levels (potential carcinogen) 
  • Supply chain security 
  • Processing more sustainably

Our enzyme solution for coffee that addresses these challenges is:

Confectionery

Manufacturers of sweet goods can use our enzyme products in the production of soft-centred chocolates, marzipan, fondant, cream fillings and wafers. Our Bioinvert™ range is formulated to produce a higher purity invert sugar without unwanted by-products.

Create confectionery products with:

  • Increased sweetness over sucrose
  • Extended product shelf life
  • Improved texture

Our enzyme products for confectionery include:

  • Bioinvert™
  • Biobake CHW

Dairy

Kerry Lactases. Unlocking Better Dairy. Our portfolio of Lactase enzymes for dairy applications breaks down lactose in milk into separate sweeter tasting molecules removing lactose and reducing the need for added sugar while keeping the same sweetness and creating easily digestible lactose-free dairy products. There is no compromise on taste, nutrition or sustainability.  

Create dairy products: 

  • That are lactose-free 
  • Have improved digestibility 
  • With reduced added sugar 
  • Have the authentic and delicious taste of dairy 
  • That diversify and premiumise your product portfolio

Our enzyme solutions for dairy include: 

Dairy Alternatives

The plant-based beverage market is rapidly growing. To deliver appealing plant-based products, manufacturers must overcome process challenges related to taste, texture and nutritional content. Our enzyme for dairy alternatives increases emulsion stability and improves viscosity and texture while helping to reduce the need for added sugar in the final product. 

Our enzymes for dairy alternatives can be added to cereal-based beverages including: 

  • Oat 
  • Malt 
  • Wheat 
  • Sorghum 
  • Soy 
  • Quinoa

Our enzymes solutions for dairy alternatives include: 

  • Amylo™ 
  • Bioferm™ 
  • Bioamylase™ 
  • Biocellulase™ 
  • Bioglucanase® 
  • Bioprotease™ 
  • Convertase™ 
  • HiTempase™ 

Dietary Supplements 

As consumers demand more targeted nutrition solutions, supplements play a key role in helping consumers of all ages maintain and support a healthy digestive system and stay nourished, fit and active. 
 
Enzymes are bioloigical catalysts that help to break down substrates such as lactose, proteins, carbohydrates and others to increase bioavailability and absorption of nutrients. 

Our enzyme solutions for dietary supplements include: 

  • Biocellulase™ 
  • Bioferm™ 
  • Bioinvert P  
  • Bioprotease™ 
  • Bioxylanase™ 
  • Glucozyme™

Meat

We manufacture protease enzymes for the meat industry which can be used to treat tougher cuts of meat and create meat products with improved tenderness and enhanced eating experience. 

Our enzyme solutions for meat include: 

  • Profix™ 
  • Tenderizer 

Pet Nutrition & Wellness 

Our enzymes bring value to pet food by improving palatability, processability, production yield and by enhancing the nutritional value of pet food.
They are natural process aids for the creation of sustainable higher value pet food ingredients.
They provide optimized % degree of hydrolysis, improve digestibility, and enhance taste of pet food ingredient to be use in dry, wet, and semi-moist petfood product.  

 Our enzyme solutions for pet nutrition & wellness include:

  • Bioprotease™  
  • Hydroprot  
  • Biolipase™ 
  • Bioamylase D™

Learn more about  Pet Nutrition & Wellness | Kerry

 

Meet our enzymes

Product Enhancement 

Enhance taste, extend shelf life and improve the texture, appearance and nutritional profile of your products with our enzyme solutions.

Sustainability

Enzymes deliver operational efficiencies while reducing impact on the environment. Our enzyme products can help maximise the use of local or lower cost raw materials. 

Trusted Manufacturer

We are primary manufacturers of enzymes, ensuring end-to-end traceability and total authenticity. This allows us to create enzymes targeted to specific industry challenges.

Enzymes play a vital role in every facet of daily life

As manufacturers innovate to find solutions that enhance consumer products at scale, we remain committed to investing in technologies and capabilities that deliver on our promise of being your most valued partner. Whether you're looking to reformulate or refine, we are dedicated to solving your most complex challenges and driving success together.