Cefetra Group

at a glance

Cefetra is a Rotterdam-based company and part of the German BayWa Group. They supply agricultural raw materials to the feed, food, and fuel industries. They have more than 120 years of experience in agriculture and international trade.

Our purpose

Cefetra offers quality, safety, and sustainability. They build efficient supply chains based on excellent logistics between suppliers across the globe and their clients within Europe. Cefetra values high nutritional quality while food safety is a top priority. They choose sustainable solutions and expect the same from their partners across the entire supply chain.

Our history

The history of Cefetra goes back to 1899 when the ‘Central Bureau’ was founded in Enschede, with the aim of helping the local united farmers and its so-called purchasing associations to buy fertilizers. In short, Cefetra went from an agricultural importer to the largest agricultural distributor in the Netherlands.

Our operations

The total Cefetra Group trades about 21 million metric tons of raw materials per year. They mostly deliver commodities to the European market. Large volumes of soy meal, sunflower meal, and soybean hulls are shipped from South America to Europe. The smaller volumes of soy meal and grains come from North America and the supply of grains and sunflower meal from the Black Sea region is increasingly becoming more important. Lastly, they mainly import palm kernel expellers from Asia.