"VFI GmbH has its roots in a family company in the sixth generation. At our company headquarters in Wels, we employ 150 employees in production, quality assurance, development, administration, and management.
Our value chain starts with the acquisition of the oil seeds, sometimes from our own farms, through pressing, refining, product composition and bottling, right up to storing the products in our fully automatic high bay warehouse, from which we deliver to our customers just in time.
We continually invest in sustainable production, and environmental protection is close to our hearts. We are proud of our location in Wels, Austria, our employees and our regional products.Vereinigte Fettwarenindustrie in Wels is a company that belongs to the Rauch family. The roots of the family go back to the 18th century, when Anton Rauch ran a grain mill in Tyrol. In 1945, the family started to produce cooking oil in Innsbruck. The brand Kronenöl was introduced, and quickly established itself as a nationwide known brand.As a result, the development into market leading producers of cooking oils and cooking fats was consistently carried on under the management of Christian Rauch. After mergers, Vereinigte Fettwarenindustrie (VFI) at its current location in Wels, is the most powerful operation of its kind in Austria and still family-owned. With its high-quality products, VFI became a high performance partner for the food trade, commerce and industry.
Austria’s entry into the European Union in 1995 offered new chances for VFI, above all in export. Under the management of Alfred Lehner and Florian Rauch, the Wels location was quickly modernised and built up. VFI developed into an important supplier of vegetable fats and oils in Central Europe.
In 2004, a fully automatic high bay warehouse was built, with 11,000 pallet spaces, to continually have the regularly ordered products available under optimum storage conditions.
Today, VFI is the clear market leader in Austria, with a wide product range of cooking oils and cooking fats, and increasingly uses the ideal starting position to sell the excellent products even across the borders."
