Danone is a multinational food and beverage company headquartered in Paris, France. It operates across fresh dairy and plant-based products, bottled water, and specialized nutrition, including early life and medical nutrition. The company develops and manufactures products based on milk and plant proteins, probiotics, and other nutritional ingredients, leveraging large-scale fermentation, formulation, and aseptic processing across global production sites.
For the chemical and biotech community, Danone’s activities span microbiology and culture development, enzyme and fermentation science, ingredient processing, and product stability and texture engineering. Its R&D also covers packaging materials and process optimization, with efforts aimed at reducing material use, improving recyclability, and enhancing energy and water efficiency. Danone collaborates with academic and industrial partners on biomanufacturing and sustainable materials and operates under stringent food safety, quality, and regulatory standards, particularly in specialized and medical nutrition.
