Food industry

The advantages of buying selenium products from the world market leader are manifold:


  • Full transparency on the origin and supply chain of products
  • Selenium products in pharma-grade quality under legislative control
  • Made in Germany under the highest environmental and ethical standards
  • High availability, because in stock
  • ISO  9001 & ISO 45001 certified
  • Part of Aurubis Group
  • Professional advice from the experts in our in-house laboratory
  • Latest insights about application successes for researchers & developers
  • Individual quantities and custom solutions for your specific production needs

Provider of the highest quality selenium products to producers with various technical applications worldwide

Benefit from our high performance, market-driven prices, excellent delivery availability, and compliance with the highest environmental standards. As world market leader for high-quality refined ultra-pure selenium and selenium compounds, we provide our selenium products to customers from all over the world. Including the glass, feed, solar, semiconductor, and optical industries, as well as the pharmaceutical, electroplating, steel, and fertilizer industries. In addition, we develop individual solutions for your specific production needs, so please contact us. We strive to live up to our Slogan: Focused on Selenium.

RETOSEL food
Retosel food is our food grade premix containing selenium. Retosel contains selenium in the form of sodium selenite and a calcium carbonate carrier. As standard you can get Retosel with selenium concentrations of 0.09%, 0.4%, 0.5%, 1%, 1.125%, 2.25%, 3%, 4.5% and 5%. Other concentrations are available on request!Due to our special production process, we are in position to offer selenium mixtures as non-classified goods.Our Retosel for the pharmaceutical and food sector is characterized by high quality consistency, low dust and low iron content.

Price on request

Sodium Selenite
Our sodium selenite powder for technical applications is characterized by high consistent quality, low in dust and low iron contents. Each batch undergoes extensive quality control in our laboratory!We offer sodium selenite powders for technical applications with a purity of at least 99.8% as standard. It is mainly used in the glass industry.

Price on request

The industrial applications of selenium are diverse

  • Nutritional supplements
  • Fertilizers
  • Mangan electrolysis
  • Glass production
  • Alloys
  • Lithium-selenium batteries
  • Solarcells
  • Photoconductors
  • Rectifiers
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Veterinary medicine / animal health

We supply producers from the food industry with high-purity selenium products

As selenium is an essential trace element involved in many reactions in the human body, it is also increasingly in demand from the pharmaceutical and food industries. Our selenium and sodium selenite for pharmaceutical purposes are characterized by the highest guaranteed purity and consistent quality according to the Food Chemicals Codex for food supplements. RETORTE is capable of manufacturing selenium products with a purity level of 99.999%. Each batch undergoes extensive quality control in our laboratory.

RETORTE GmbH

Selenium Chemicals & Metals

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