CHINA FEIHE (HKEX: 06186) made a prominent appearance at the 4th China International Supply Chain Expo, systematically showcasing its advanced achievements in milk protein technology and its comprehensive fresh supply chain layout.
The company's stringent quality control across the entire industrial chain safeguards the fresh, safe nutrition for Chinese infants and people of all ages.
Relying on its globally unique 'Fresh-Extraction Active Protein Technology', Feihe has successfully overcome challenges in deep processing of milk proteins.
Currently, Feihe has achieved 100% self-research and self-production capability for 16 core raw materials, breaking the industry's long-standing dependence on imported ingredients.
From technological breakthroughs to full-chain self-control, Feihe has achieved "fresh ingredients + fresh products", leading the industry into a "fresh milk powder era" and providing a Chinese model for global dairy innovation.
Unlocking the 'Protein Technology Expert' Identity
At this expo, top global companies brought technologies and products representing future industry trends.
As a leader in the dairy "core technology", Feihe's research achievements in protein technology attracted significant attention.
Using "the nutritional exploration of a drop of milk" as a narrative thread, Feihe connected breakthroughs in China's dairy deep processing technology for milk proteins, revealing how its formula leads the industry into the fresh milk powder era.
China's milk protein ingredients have long relied heavily on imports, exposing the domestic industry to supply chain security risks like price volatility and supply disruptions.
The recent surge in global whey protein prices directly led to soaring domestic procurement costs.
Behind this import dependence lies the long-standing issue of deep processing technology for milk proteins that has troubled domestic dairy companies.
In traditional foreign extraction processes, protein is a by-product of cheese production, involving prolonged high temperatures and multiple processing steps that reduce protein activity.
Feihe has pioneered a new path in deep processing,颠覆ing the traditional method of extracting protein from cheese by-products by extracting active protein directly from fresh milk sourced from its own pastures.
As early as 2011, Feihe initiated research into deep processing of milk proteins.
After thousands of experiments, it launched its "Fresh-Extraction Active Protein Technology" in 2025, marking the world's first successful low-temperature extraction of high-quality protein directly from fresh milk, maximally preserving the natural activity of core nutrients like milk protein.
Regarding casein extraction, Feihe successfully developed an industrial enzymatic hydrolysis system for casein peptides, enabling efficient conversion and small-molecule processing of core components like casein and casein phosphopeptides, addressing absorption issues for sensitive groups like the elderly and infants.
While tackling technical challenges, Feihe accelerated industrial implementation, building what was for nearly a decade thereafter China's only operational demineralized whey production line in 2012.
In 2022, it established China's first automated lactoferrin production line, followed by the nation's first α-lactalbumin production line in 2026.
Thus, it has achieved 100% self-research and self-production capability for 16 key ingredients including lactoferrin, demineralized whey powder, and α-lactalbumin.
Building on this solid production foundation, Feihe has established a milk protein nutrition strategy centered on casein, constructing a leading domestic large-scale casein production line.
It is expected to become one of the largest suppliers of casein in China and even globally by the end of this year.
Feihe is accelerating the commercial layout of milk protein ingredients, supplying high-quality domestic dairy raw materials to the global market.
Its raw materials division has launched a series of sub-brands, with the milk protein series as the core, while simultaneously developing diverse ingredient categories including hydrolyzed proteins, peptides, colostrum, fats, and milk salts.
Leveraging its own infant formula-grade milk sources and self-developed fresh-extraction technology, Feihe can custom-develop various functional milk protein ingredients on demand, ensuring stable, safe, and high-quality supply, helping achieve domestic self-sufficiency in core dairy ingredients and empowering global nutrition industry innovation.
Initiating the 'Fresh Milk Powder Era' with Freshness Ensuring Safety and Absorption
Safety and freshness are always top concerns for consumers. The safety and freshness of infant formula are closely linked to the freshness of its core ingredients.
Relying on self-production of core ingredients and full-chain self-control, Feihe truly achieves "real freshness is fresh ingredients plus fresh products".
It safeguards the entire chain's freshness through six guarantees: fresh milk source, fresh ingredients, fresh formula, fresh product, fresh traceability, and fresh standards.
This fundamentally addresses the long-standing "freshness" challenge difficult for dairies to solve yet eagerly awaited by consumers, bringing consumers safer, more absorbable nutrition and pioneering the "fresh milk powder era".
Regarding fresh milk sources, since 2006, Feihe has built its own pastures in the golden dairy belt at 47° north latitude, establishing an integrated "forage planting - dairy farming - production processing" industrial chain.
It was the first in the industry to achieve 100% farm control, 100% owned pastures and cows, and 100% owned raw milk, while creating a "2-hour ecosystem" where milk goes from milking to processing within just 2 hours.
For fresh ingredients, compared to imported ingredients which suffer from long transportation times, easy loss of active nutrients, and food safety risks, Feihe's core ingredients are all self-produced within 30 days, ensuring product safety from the source and locking in native active nutrition.
Data shows Feihe's self-produced whey protein is 23 times fresher than imported ingredients, its self-produced casein phosphopeptides are 47 times fresher, and its self-produced lactoferrin is 35 times fresher, with lactoferrin purity not less than 97%, exhibiting larger bacteriostatic zones and stronger activity.
For fresh formula, Feihe's infant formula effects, components, and activity are closer to Chinese breast milk, aiding better digestion and absorption for babies.
Focusing on breast milk-mimicking formula R&D, Feihe innovatively launched the "Chinese Maternal Source Bionic Formula", providing more suitable nutrition for Chinese infants.
Currently, Feihe奶粉 is rich in 2500 kinds of proteins, including 28.1% self-protective proteins, matching the种类比例 structure of breast milk, creating fresh nutritional quality closer to breast milk.
In breast milk research and infant formula, Feihe holds three authoritative certifications: first in Chinese breast milk research成果, first in Chinese infant formula patents, and top brand for Chinese maternal source formula nutrition.
For fresh products and traceability, Feihe not only strives for products on shelves to have production dates within 6 months but also makes freshness and safety visible.
It launched the world's first "Fresh Ingredient Traceability System", integrated into products like its Qi萃, Ji萃, and Fresh-Extract Milk Protein Nutrition Powder.
Consumers can scan the QR code on the product bottom for ingredient traceability, viewing the product's production date and the production date, source, and quality inspection reports of core ingredients like whey protein and lactoferrin, making the fresh evidence for every can fully transparent, verifiable, and trustworthy.
While achieving "real freshness" itself, Feihe actively promotes "fresh standards".
Recently, Feihe jointly with the China National Institute of Standardization率先 released the "Fresh Quality Management Standard for Dairy Source Raw Materials", reviewed and approved by ten academicians and experts in dairy science, nutrition health, standardization, and traceability.
This marks the first time "fresh ingredients" are incorporated as an independent dimension into a standard system, making "freshness" definable, traceable, and perceptible, truly becoming safety and quality visible to consumers.
Currently, the full-chain fresh self-production achieved by Feihe not only builds a comprehensive safety屏障 for consumers but also maximally locks in native nutrition, allowing mothers to feel more assured.
Since its establishment, Feihe has始终坚持 the iron rule that "quality让步s for nothing", maintaining 64 consecutive years of zero safety incidents in production, safeguarding the fresh, safe nutrition for Chinese babies.
From 'Infant Formula Leader' to 'Protein Nutrition Expert', Safeguarding Fresh Nutrition for All Ages
Currently, the global food industry is accelerating its转型 towards "functionalization and precision".
Guided by the mission and vision of "spreading love through nutrition, for a wiser, healthier, and longer-living humanity", Feihe applies its self-produced fresh ingredients to nutrition products for all ages, precisely meeting the differentiated nutritional needs of infants, children, adults, and the elderly.
Feihe has established a functional nutrition product matrix covering the entire lifecycle from 0 to 100 years old.
For infants, its Qi萃 and Ji萃 formulas respectively focus on "maternal source self-protection" and "cognitive age提升", redefining the core standards of "freshness + science + evidence" for premium奶粉 with fresh nutrition.
For children and adolescents, Feihe Cheese designed a "dietary fiber + protein" solution for Chinese children, launching the "Love Eating Vegetables Cheese",融合ing 27 kinds of vegetables and grains with high-protein cheese to deliver dual-dimensional nutrition in one cheese product.
In the adult nutrition field, its Ai Ben brand is positioned as a乳蛋白 functional nutrition expert.
Addressing pain points like muscle loss and reduced mobility in middle-aged and elderly人群 due to declining digestion/absorption and lack of quality protein, developed in collaboration with Capital Medical University, it launched the Feihe Ai Ben Small-Molecule Milk Protein Special Dietary Powder series centered on "small-molecule milk protein".
This small-molecule protein is easily absorbed and aids muscle replenishment, helping more people maintain mobility strength.
For all age groups, its Fresh-Extract Milk Protein Nutrition Powder, while ensuring small molecules for easier absorption, applies a 10-layer membrane filtration technology to completely separate lactose, allowing even lactose-intolerant individuals to easily supplement high-quality protein nutrition.
Focusing on the nutritional needs of all ages, as a leading Chinese dairy enterprise, Feihe continuously uses its self-developed protein technology to锁住 fresh nutrition and its full-chain freshness to safeguard safety, promoting the systematic upgrade of the dairy supply chain towards greater transparency, efficiency, and autonomy.
This brings consumers products that are safer, higher in nutritional activity, and more absorbable.
Looking ahead, Feihe aims to become the protein nutrition expert for the Chinese people, using safer, higher-quality products to safeguard the fresh nutrition of all age groups, setting a benchmark for high-quality industry development, and contributing to China's dairy industry leading globally.
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