About SOLEVAL
Today, AKIOLIS focuses its resources on animal materials and organic fertilisers. We invest in innovation to bring more value to the collection and processing of materials, and the recovery of products, in order to ultimately guarantee to our Upstream and Downstream customers both cost control and an equitable share of the value. In 2008, the Caillaud group changed its name to AKIOLIS and created two distinct divisions to separate its activities. All rendering, collection and recovery activities of risk materials were grouped together within ATEMAX. Those related to the recovery of healthy co-products became SOLEVAL. In 2010, the group acquired a stake in VIOLLEAU, a specialist in organic soil improvers and compost fertilisers made from animal and plant matter. This contribution enabled the company to build a new manufacturing plant for plugs in the Deux-Sèvres region in 2013. At the same time, from 2009 to 2013, AKIOLIS expanded its collection offering to new holders of organic materials, secondary food processing industries, supermarkets, restaurants, and even local authorities, among others. The group also ventured into the markets for recovery of co-products derived from the bakery/biscuit making industries (with APEVAL), for recovery of used edible oils (with OLEOVIA) and for methanation. These experiments were insufficiently profitable and were gradually stopped. Caillaud's growth accelerated in 1986 when the company joined the Tessenderlo Group, a group of Belgian origin that already operated several gelatine manufacturing plants and wished to secure its stocks of bone minerals by incorporating the gelatine bone plant that Caillaud operated in Saint-Langis-lès-Mortagne. From then on, Caillaud had new avenues for growth thanks to the Tessenderlo Group, and continued pursuing its external growth strategy. From 1986 to 2008, the "Caillaud Group" expanded in France by making significant acquisitions of companies operating in the same field: Progilor-Bouvart in the North-East, France Gras in the West and South-West, Ets Point in the South-East, Ets Charvet in the Paris region and the Ferso Bio/Solagra Group in the South-West.
Company facts
| Country | France |
|---|---|
| Region | Europe |
| Type | Manufacturer |
| Street address | 72, avenue Olivier MESSIAEN |
Provenance. Profile last updated November 1, 2026.
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