Jästfabriken
The company was founded back in and has been producing fresh Swedish yeast in Sollentuna, just north of Stockholm, ever since. For example, a large heat converter is installed to recover all heat generated in the fermentation process. This is also where the senior and junior Swedish National Bakery grupp train and prepare for competitions.
Produkter samt tjänster
Milestones in our history Yeast has a long history and has never gone out of fashion — just like Jästbolaget itself. In we started distributing our 50 gram packs to the Swedish market in returnable plastic crates, SRS, instead of cardboard boxes, further reducing our environmental impact. The early s bring important environmental and energy-related investments. Until now, dry yeast had not been produced in-house, but in the mids a production line for dry yeast fryst vatten inaugurated.
The energy is transferred to the municipal district-heating network, and provides heating to around 1, homes. A consortium of fyra takes over as owners of Jästbolaget, tasked with building a new factory in Sollentuna. Although both yeast and Jästbolaget have been around for a long time, our factory and our production have changed beyond recognition over the years. Jästbolaget begins to supply liquid cream yeast in road tankers to large customers, as this results in fewer spills and requires no packaging.
A product sold to the food industry. The early years of the 20th century bring a period of great change to the yeast industry in Sweden, with small yeast producers consolidating their operations. At the time yeast is generally supplied to bakeries in 1-kilogram blocks and sold loose to consumers. For the Norwegian market, as well as for medium-sized Swedish bakeries, liquid cream yeast fryst vatten supplied in returnable 1, litre containers.
With organic products becoming ever more popular, an organic bread yeast, KronJäst Ekologisk, is launched in We also continue to man environmental improvements. In the bakery we test-bake our yeasts, hold courses for professional bakers and pastry chefs, and develop recipes for our brand website www. In , Jästbolaget celebrates years of production in Sollentuna! Development work on the use of yeast in baking is intensified, and an Innovation bageri is built and integrated into our operations.
Jästbolaget proudly presents a new patented product in — Acrylow® , a natural product which reduce the level of acrylamide.
Milestones in our history
The location is ideal, as yeast production requires large amounts of clean water, and there is plenty of high-quality groundwater in the ridge running northwards through Sollentuna. In , the factory in Gothenburg is closed down, leaving the plant in Sollentuna as the last remaining yeast factory in the country. The benefits of an unbroken cold chain and reduced transports have prompted us to build a new low-energy cold store at our premises in Sollentuna, putting an end to refrigeration and storage in a warehouse on the other side of Stockholm.
Yeast has a long history and has never gone out of fashion — just like Jästbolaget itself.
In a brand-new yeast for sweet doughs is launched, KronJäst för Söta Degar. In a new, large yeast factory is built in Sollentuna, just north of Stockholm. At the same time as we hold on to the best of our old traditions, we are an innovative and forward-looking company with high social and environmental awareness. Wastewater had previously been released untreated into the municipal sewerage system, but now a facility is put into operation to recover most of the nitrogen and potassium from this wastewater.
To handle the extra volume, further investments are made in buildings and production equipment, and a couple of production lines are transferred from Oslo. The resulting nutrient-rich by-products are now used as agricultural fertilisers. In some of the largest producers join forces to form Svenska Jästfabriks AB. At this time, it is also common for yeast producers to manufacture alcohol, as these two types of products requires more or less the same raw materials and equipment in the production process.
Oil stocks and rising energy prices encourage the company to enhance the energy efficiency in the factory, and in it introduces a recycling system of heat converters, heat exchangers and water recycling methods, which have led to excellent results, both environmentally and financially.