Evonik and Dr. Eckel Animal Nutrition have entered into a partnership that will enable Evonik's Animal Nutrition business line to expand its product portfolio in the gut health solutions area to include the phytogenics product class. Evonik plans to launch the first product from the partnership with Dr. Eckel in Europe in the first quarter of 2023.

“It often needs complex solutions to maintain health and productivity in the barn without antibiotics,” said Gaetano Blanda, head of the Animal Nutrition business line at Evonik. “In combination with our existing Gut Health Solutions, phytogenics will help farmers achieve this goal.”

Evonik Gut Health Solutions focus primarily on stabilizing the gut health of animals through probiotics such as Ecobiol®, Fecinor®, and GutCare®. The partnership with Dr. Eckel will allow Evonik to address further animal health issues with selected products that expand Evonik’s portfolio.

“As a dynamic company with a high pace in product development, we are able to create innovations in a comparatively short period of time,” said Antje Eckel, founder of Dr. Eckel Animal Nutrition. “With a strong partner like Evonik, we can allow selected products to access a much wider market in a short time. We are therefore very happy that together with Evonik we can open up new target groups and customers.”