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Flarus has a long experience in the agro-food industry. We would like to present you our main exclusive partners and manufacturers of equipment. Together with our European partners we offer you complete factories or lines turn-key as well as all kind of separate items of high quality equipment and ingredients for processing and packaging of oil and fat, dairy and confectionary products. We have our own service engineers in Ukraine and Russia in order to assist your people at the installation and later for services and maintenance of our equipment.

The Arkema Group was created in October 2004 from the reorganization of Total’s Chemicals branch. Its three business segments, Vinyl Products, Industrial Chemicals and Performance Products, combine coherent and integrated industrial activities, most of which boast either world or European leading rankings, with internationally recognized brands and products

Present in over 40 countries with 15,200 employees, the Arkema Group operates 80 industrial facilities in Europe, North America and Asia, as well as sales subsidiaries in every region of the world. With a resolutely international presence, a solid commercial ranking, an industrial strategy focused on new plants and development projects, and a sound financial structure, Arkema’s assets combine to make the Company a major world chemical player.

Main Brands

Lacovyl®: cosmetic and pharmaceutical packaging
Nakan®: instrument panel coating, medical equipment
Lucobay®: windows and shutters
Bactivel®: bleach, disinfectants

Benhil is the leading manufacturer in the field of wrapping into aluminium foil or parchment paper (bricks and mini portions) as well as filling into ready made cups of margarine, spreads, soup paste, yeast, halva, tvorog, mayonnaise and ketchup and other semi liquid and pasty products. Benhil can rely on more then 10.000 references worldwide. The machines are reliable, need little service and are very flexible for format change over. Benhil also offers semi-automatic packing machines for bricks and cups. In case cups and bricks have to be packed at high capacity, the German company Schaeffer & Flottmann is your preferred supplier for complete automated cartonning machines and wrap-around lines for blocks, cups, bottles, doy-pack and other single packages. Schaeffer & Flottmann is also specialisedin end of line packaging systems and palletizers.

BNLfood has acquired a solid international reputation in Egg Science & Technology for its range of highly functional egg products (whole egg/albumen/yolk), its portfolio of egg fractions (lysozyme, avidin, ovotransferrin, phospholipids) and its successful transfer of technology to international partners. BNLfood has succeeded to develop and to present to the market of Consumer Products and Agro Food Ingredients a new concept in lipid nutrition: the Columbus Concept. Through the promotion of consumer products issued from the Columbus Concept, BNLfood has taken the lead in healthy and sustainable lipid nutrition. BNL food International is the trading company of the BNLfood group of Companies. BNL stands for BeNeLux, this central part of Western Europe made of Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg, where the headquarters and the operational units of the Group are established. BNLfood is a new group of companies emerging from the blossom of the parent company Belovo established in 1969.

The company Bock & Sohn is highly specialized in supplying block and plate packaging machines and wrap-around case packers for puff pastry margarine, butter, edible fats and comparable products for industrial use.

Damman-Croes specialises mainly in two activities who are the primary activities until now:

Crackers and flakers for the oilseed, animal feed and breakfast cereals industry aswell as complete extraction lines for the bio-oil industry.

Machines for the concrete industry.

OvoPro is a company that offers total solutions in all fields of egg processing on a global scale. Their global team consists of experts with more than 15 years of experience.

They can design and deliver your building layout to include material and product flow, based on your volume requirements and growth potential. They provide the most advanced egg breaking and separating systems available, with pumps, automatic filtration units, product cooling, pasteurizers and storage tanks, as well as shell augers, centrifuges and dryers. They are able to design your packaging lines including sanitary cans and bags, ESL packaging and bag-in-box equipment fillers. The facilities include raw product, separated or whole egg, pasteurized liquid, dried or frozen eggs and value added blended products.

OvoPro, being part of FPS-Egg Handling Systems can count on a strong global sales and service network of leaders in the industry. OvoPro owns essential intellectual properties for designing and creating the most innovative solutions for egg processing.

Dairy Ingredients offers five product groups:

Enzymes: The cheese maker has the availability of a broad range of coagulants, which allows him to select the ideal coagulant for every cheese type, and to meet customer demands. DSM as a leading manufacturer of all three basic types of coagulant - Fermentation Produced Chymosin (FPC), microbial coagulant and animal rennet- is able to offer the broadest portfolio in coagulants and can advise the cheese maker to choose the best coagulant for his application. DSM is the top manufacturer, and the preferred supplier of coagulants to the dairy industry world wide, with high quality products and technical support to match.
Preservation: Dairy Ingredients has long experience in providing solutions for the high quality protection, preservation and presentation of cheese and meat products.
Tests: In order to safeguard the quality of milk and milk products, DSM Food Specialties offers you Delvotest® - applicable at farmer, dairy industry and regulatory level - to control milk for the presence of antibiotic residues. The detection of antibiotic residues in milk and milk products is of great economic value to the dairy.
Cultures: with DSM we present an advanced range of starter cultures in an integrated DELVO® system for all cheese and fermented milk applications.
Functional Ingredients: Fabuless® : a new product that helps consumers to manage their weight on a long term-basis and Probiotic LAFTI® strains give you a complete package, offering targeted health benefits for your functional food products or supplements.

The Danish-German company Gerstenberg-Schroeder is the leading supplier for technological lines for the continuous production of table margarine, soft and puff pastry margarine, spreads, shortening and all kinds of industrial fats. Pilot plants are offered for tests and elaborating recipes. Moreover, if you do not want to buy your own pilot plant, testing facilities are at the disposal of our customers. In addition to their well known continuous lines for production of mayonnaise, ketchup and other delicatessen products, of which a lot are working in the CIS already for many years, a new batch system has been developed in order to cover also needs for lower production capacities. The combination of the Gerstenberg-Schroeder experience and the flexibility of the batch system are of interest for those who want to change recipes very often or want to try out on the market many difficult kinds of products for marketing processes. Gerstenberg-Schroeder's scraped surface heat exchangers and emulsifying systems are well known worldwide.

MECATHERM develops, produces and installs ovens, machines and automated production lines for industrial bakery products world-wide.

Over the years MECATHERM has continuously diversified its manufacturing process from its status as baguette specialist; today the company produces machines with a dough capacity of up to 3 tons per hour : not only for baguettes, but also for the production of rolls, puff pastry, laminated dough, etc.

World leader in its field, MECATHERM accelerated its growth by increasing its export share, now representing more than 80% of their business.

MECATHERM‘s steady development is essentially based on a strong R&D department, continuously innovating in terms of technology and process in order to answer and even anticipate the needs of a worldwide market in constant evolution.

Pattyn Packing Lines provides fully and semi-automated bag-in-box lines for the packing and weighfilling of semi-liquids, fats & oils ranging from 5 to 30 kg. A standard line consists of a case erector (up to 18 cases/minute), a bag liner-inserter (making it possible to produce bags from a roll and reducing costs on packaging material), a fast and accurate weigh filling system (+/-15g on a 25kg case) and a flexible bag sealing, decuffing and case closing system. Pattyn also supplies complete lines for packing parbaked frozen bread.

Design and development of modular end-line packaging equipment (single modules to turn-key projects), focusing on the Edible Fat & Oil, Dairy and Food Industries. Core Areas : edible fats & oils - wine - pharmaceutical - dairy - bakeries - chemical.

SERVO TECHNOLOGY changed our company & our products by the use of dedicated servo-drives for all mechanical movements.
In 1998, the new Modular Packer - the SFS Series 400 - was introduced, based on the intensive need of the industry for higher flexibility. This means:
                                        °Standard servo and robot controlled technology as core components of modular end line packaging.
                                        °Line modulation as a combination of standardized modules customized to meet customer needs.
                                        °Reduced lead times for quicker market response time.
                         °Possibility of exchanging modules if necessary (e.g. corrugated boxes vs. Returnable Transport                                          Packaging).

For over 40 years, Spiromatic has a leading position for storage, conveyance and dosage of ingredients in the dough processing industry. Entrepreneurship, innovation, professionalism and customer orientation are at the basis of this achievement.
Thanks to the knowledge of the customers’ needs and the input of Spiromatics’ automated systems, Spiromatic enables the customer to perfectly control his process as to get a maximum return from his installation.