French LDC expanding its food technology business in China

French LDC expanding its food technology business in China, today, the food tech sector in China presents more investment opportunities which comprises 449 companies, including 248 funded companies having collectively raised $5.86B in venture capital money.

Food tech sector in China is also known as Food Production Technology, Agri-food Technology or Food Innovation.

The growing potential of Chinese market immense capacity attracts global investors’ interests. Recently, French LDC expanding its food technology business in China is a good example.

Louis Dreyfus Company B.V. (LDC) is a French merchant firm that engages in agriculture, food processing, international shipping, and finance. The company is one of the four "ABCD" companies that dominate world agricultural commodity trading.

Look at this recent article from world-grain...     

French LDC expanding its food technology business in China. Louis Dreyfus Co. (LDC) began construction on its new Qingdao Food Technology Park in Dongjiakou, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China.

With a groundbreaking on June 26, which LDC said highlights its continuing long-term investment in the country, include oilseeds crushing, processing of specialty feed proteins and products, and production of food-grade lecithin.

These operations expected to be completed in 2027 with capacity to produce 1.5 million tones of feed protein, 370,000 tones of refined oil and 15,000 tones of lecithin annually.

“Shandong province, as China’s leading agricultural region with a 2024 annual output of RMB 1.28 trillion ($178 billion) from farming, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, is a strategic location for the new park, .....See more from world-grain here.

French LDC expanding its food technology business in China, interesting that In the year 2025, till April 2025, Food Tech companies in China have raised equity funding across one round. In the same period last year (i.e. till April 2024), Food Tech companies in China had raised $700K across five rounds.

We will see more influential investors pay attention to China food tech businesses; the growing potential of immense Chinese market capacity attracts global investors’ interests.

No doubt that China Food Tech sector provides unique trade opportunities and broader business platform.

In fact, LDC has been active working on various projects in China since 2018, some of  them has come into fruition, some projects are still going on, LDC carries out more recent relevant investments in China, particularly, several noticeable LDC businesses activities in China, according to world grain reporting, mainly including:

LDC inaugurates feed lecithin line in China [May-2025]

LDC breaks ground on specialty feed facility in China (September-2024)

LDC expansion efforts in China take shape [July-2021]

LDC opens oilseeds processing facility in China [September-2018]

LDC acquires oilseed processing facility in China [April-2018]