Essen. Evonik signed a purchase agreement on July 4, 2016, for the acquisition of the probiotics business and León site of the Spanish company NOREL, a global supplier of animal feed ingredients. “For us, this acquisition marks an important step into the probiotics market. By combining the technologies of NOREL and Evonik we can create a platform for the development of new customer solutions, which are built around probiotics product families and application services.”