COMPANIES · LAYING HEN FARMING · CIRCULAR ECONOMY
The Valencian group establishes Huevos Guillén Innovación SL to concentrate its innovation on two fronts—circular economy and value-added egg products—without moving the egg from the center of its business
The Valencian company Huevos Guillén has taken another step in its commitment to innovation with the formation of Huevos Guillén Innovación SL, a company that will bring together all of its research, development, and innovation (R&D&I) activity in the food sector. This was reported by the economic newspaper Valencia Plaza, which places the new company’s launch within two major lines of work: driving circular economy projects—with the valorization of broken eggs for pet food as its flagship—and developing new egg-derived products.
“Huevos Guillén is not diversifying away from the egg, but rather delving deeper into it: each new business line stems from the product itself and from what was previously discarded.”
What exactly has been established
According to the Official Gazette of the Commercial Registry (BORME), the company was created on June 11 with a share capital of 100,000 euros and will be headquartered at the Táctica Business Park in Paterna. Its corporate purpose focuses on developing R&D&I projects related to egg-derived products and their industrial, nutritional, and biotechnological applications, as well as the development of technological processes, patents, models, and other innovative solutions within the sector.
With this structure, Grupo Guillén aims to separate this activity from the parent company and give innovation its own dedicated structure, at a time when the development of new products and processes is gaining prominence within the food industry.
“Broken eggs and new egg derivatives expand the business, but the hen and its egg remain the core of everything.”
A commitment to diversification with two goals
The first goal: transforming broken eggs from waste into premium protein
The first axis, and the most striking one, is the use of by-products. Huevos Guillén wants to give a second life to broken eggs —those not fit for human consumption— by transforming them into protein intended for pet food.
It’s not starting from scratch. In 2024 the company partnered with Veos Ibérica, a company specialized in sustainable solutions for the food industry, to turn these eggs into raw material for premium pet food. The figures show the potential: every year the firm discards around one million kilos of broken eggs, which, after transformation, become more than 250,000 kilos of egg protein for high-end pet food. The new company seeks precisely to reinforce and scale up this project.
“One million kilos of broken eggs a year stop being a logistical problem and become 250,000 kilos of pet protein: a clear example of the circular economy.”
The company is not trying to abandon the egg business to enter the pet food business, but rather to close the loop on the egg itself, capturing value from a flow that until now was pure loss. The egg remains the foundation; what changes is how much is used from each batch.
The second goal: new egg derivatives
The second line focuses on the development of new egg-derived products and their industrial, nutritional and biotechnological applications. It’s an area with potential —from convenience egg products to functional ingredients, as well as possible industrial uses for eggshell— that fits with the strategy of a group looking to move up the value chain without straying from its core raw material.
An expansion that doesn’t stop
This move comes in the midst of an expansionary phase. At NeXusAvicultura we have been covering Huevos Guillén’s trajectory for some time now, and the picture is that of a group in sustained growth. A year ago it purchased two farms—in Consuegra (Toledo) and Utiel (Valencia)—to approach 6.2 million laying hens, as part of an ambitious investment plan of 210 million euros through 2028 (€58 M in 2025, €55 M in 2026, €55 M in 2027, and €42 M in 2028), largely aimed at the transition from cages to alternative systems.
That roadmap has its most recent expression in Extremadura, where the group obtained the green light for its second-largest free-range farm in Ribera del Fresno—320,000 hens and nearly 100 million eggs a year—which later brought in CEX Capital as a partner, raising the investment to €18 M.
“Huevos Guillén is growing under its own steam and opening a new front with innovation as a lever of value.”
The figures behind the bet
Solvency backs it up. In 2024 the company posted revenue of €262.37 million—down 4%, due to the drop in average selling price and the long timelines of the shift from cages to alternative systems—but raised its profit to €36.3 million, up 21% thanks to improved margins. The resources generated were mainly used to reduce financial debt (-37%) and for investments of €24 million, 67% of which went directly toward increasing production capacity. These figures follow on from previous years, when the group had already closed the year with €30 M in profit and sales of €273 M.
“Diversifying without losing focus: broken eggs and new egg derivatives expand the business, but the hen and its egg remain the core of everything.”
The creation of a dedicated R&D&I company reflects a coherent strategy: making the most of every part of the egg—including what until now ended up in waste treatment plants or was not sufficiently utilized—to diversify revenue, strengthen sustainability, and consolidate leadership, with the traditional product as its foundation.
The NeXus Summary Sheet
| New company | Huevos Guillén Innovación SL |
| Incorporation | June 11, 2026 (BORME) |
| Share capital | €100,000 |
| Headquarters | Parque Empresarial Táctica, Paterna (Valencia) |
| Areas of work | Circular economy (broken eggs → pet food) and new egg derivatives |
| Technology partner (broken eggs) | Veos Ibérica |
| Volume recovered | ~1 M kg of broken eggs/year → +250,000 kg of egg protein |
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