Roquette is a French, family-owned global producer of plant-based ingredients and pharmaceutical excipients. Founded in 1933 and headquartered in Lestrem, France, the company operates manufacturing and R&D sites across Europe, the Americas, and Asia, supplying the food and beverage, nutrition, pharmaceutical, personal care, paper and board, and industrial markets.
Its portfolio includes starches and starch derivatives from crops such as corn, wheat, potatoes, and peas; polyols (e.g., sorbitol, mannitol, maltitol); dietary fibers and sweetening solutions; and plant proteins, notably pea protein. In pharmaceuticals, Roquette supplies excipients for oral and parenteral dosage forms, including sugar alcohols, specialty starches, and cyclodextrins used for tableting, taste-masking, and solubility enhancement. The company applies biorefining and fermentation technologies to produce ingredients and bio-based intermediates, with an emphasis on renewable feedstocks and process efficiency.
