About us
ACTALIA is a Food Technological institute, whose mission is to contribute to the development and long-term viability of companies by supporting them in their Innovation initiatives, improving Food Safety and Quality, while integrating environmental and human dimensions.
Beyond our unique expertise in the dairy sector, we operate in all agri-food sectors, as well as in other sectors of activity. ACTALIA is organized into 7 expert units.
ACTALIA offers a wide range of comprehensive, customized services to provide solutions to problems faced by companies in the food and dairy industry:
- Audit
- Consulting
- Training
- Consumer studies
- Analyses
- Standardisation of methods
ACTALIA also participates in missions and research of general interest to improve knowledge and develop specific tools within the framework of its mission of technical support and transfer of expertise.
ACTALIA was born in May 2013 from the merger of two agro-industrial technological institutes: ADRIA NORMANDIE, a center of agribusiness expertise for over 30 years, and Actilait, the technological institute of milk and dairy products.
ACTALIA is today:
- A multidisciplinary team of 190 staff composed mainly of engineers and doctors.
- 12 locations in France: Bourg-en-Bresse (01), Le Chaffaut Saint-Jurson (04), Villers Bocage (14), Caen (14), Surgères (17), Mamirolle (25), Rennes (35), Poligny (39), Saint-Lô (50), La Roche-sur-Foron (74), Paris (75), Maisons-Alfort (94).
- A scientific council composed of experts from government research organisations.
- A centre of expertise, classified by the French Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food as an Agro-Industrial Technological Institute. ACTALIA is thus recognised for its mission of general interest as well as its technical and scientific skills.
ACTALIA brings together the skills of its experts and engineers in 7 units. Each unit has the particularity of combining expertise (national and international R&D programmes, accreditation and certification) with operational knowledge in the field. The units offer a wide range of services: audit, consulting, analyses, studies, training, regulatory and technical monitoring…
To discover each unit’s services, click on logos below:
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ACTALIA’s expert units work together to seek, study, understand, control and provide practical solutions to problems faced by companies.
This complementarity provides stakeholders in the dairy and agri-food industry with comprehensive operational solutions.
ACTALIA’s board of directors, chaired by Mr Eric LESAGE, is composed of administrators representing the Lower Normandy regional institutions, dairy industry inter-branch organisations and businesses.
Thierry PETIT is General Manager.
Units’ Directors
Director of ACTALIA Contrôle et qualité [Quality Control]:
Director and Co-Director of ACTALIA Sensoriel [Sensory]:
Elisabeth STEIDEL and Jean-Christophe PERRIN
Director of ACTALIA Innovation:
Director of ACTALIA Expertise analytique laitière / Cecalait:
Director of ACTALIA Produits Laitiers [Dairy Products]:
Director of ACTALIA Environnement [Environment]:
Director of ACTALIA Sécurité des aliments [Food Safety]:
As requested by French law, each year by March 1 at the latest, companies with at least 50 employees must calculate and publish on their website (see also: https://egapro.travail.gouv.fr/index-egapro/recherche?query=actalia), the overall score of the Gender Equality Index, as well as the score obtained for each of the component indicators.
The Gender Equality Index is 89 out of 100 points for ACTALIA in 2024.
It is made up of 4 indicators:
- The gender pay gap (34/40)
- The difference in distribution of individual increases (35/35)
- The number of employees increased upon their return from maternity leave (15/15)
- Parity among the 10 highest salaries (5/10).
In the event of a Gender Equality Index below 85 points, companies must set and publish improvement targets for each of the indicators.