The idea of making cream cheese by applying traditional Cebreiro cheese (a Galician traditional cheese) production technologies with the use of buttermilk as an ingredient emerged in 2005 in the Dairy Products Classroom of the University of Santiago (USC), and led to the founding of Innolact SL in May 2006 with 17 partners and 2 employees.
As in all great adventures, the beginning wasn't easy. It was an innovative project launched by a group of entrepreneurs who were entering a very traditional sector, the dairy sector, and a mature market in the cheese market. Their efforts were rewarded with several awards that same year, such as the prize in the 7th USC Contest for Innovative Business Projects, being named the 1st Technology-Based Dairy Company by the Galician Regional Government, and being designated a NeoTec company by the CDTI.

In order to make this dream come true, we needed to have a tailor-made cheese plant for the production process we had developed, and the place chosen was the building that what we know today as Q1.
For more than 14 months, we worked tirelessly on the industrial side, acquiring and configuring the first production line, testing processes, until in October 2007 we made the first sale of Quescrem cream cheese, the first Galician cream cheese on the market.
This was the start of our commercial activity for professionals in the Horeca and Industry channels in Spain.

We attended Alimentaria 2010 as exhibitors, where, in addition to establishing contact with new customers in Spain, we gained our first international business contacts. Thanks to this fair, we gained two of the long-term customers who still trust us today.

This year we took another crucial step in our strong commitment to innovation: creating our own R&D&i department with the vision and commitment to provide more value every day to our customers, the dairy sector and our environment through innovation, process improvement and the development of new products.
One of the hallmarks and keys to the success of Quescrem's business model also began to take shape: customer integration, the development of tailor-made projects and products and providing a service beyond the sale of products.

Faced with the growing demand for Quescrem products, this year we expanded our facilities for the first time, improving and optimising the space for production, packaging and storage, and to accommodate the growing number of people who made up the team at the time.

We received this award from the magazine Actualidad Económica in recognition of our business model and our business project.

3 years after the first expansion of the factory, we once again needed to expand our production and office facilities. It's at this point that Q1 ended up with its current 3-building configuration.
From this point onwards, the company entered a period of strong expansion in different markets and channels.

Celebration of the 10th anniversary with a party at the Q2 site, which was still under construction at the time.

For years, we'd been producing a high-quality mascarpone that was very well received in the market, especially in Asia, where consumption is growing. This was especially true in China, so the production facilities at Q1 were once again becoming too small for the entire cream cheese and mascarpone production process. As it was physically impossible to further expand Q1 due to the unavailability of the adjoining plots, we decided to set up a second production plant.
After weighing up different possible locations both nationally and internationally, we finally decided to continue to support our local environment and in 2018 we opened Q2 in the same industrial estate as Q1.

For several years now, the Chinese market has been one of Quescrem's major international commitments, as it accounts for a significant percentage of the company's sales and also has great growth potential. Therefore, in 2019 we decided to take our internationalisation strategy a step further and founded a subsidiary in China: Shanghai Innolact Business, which was incorporated in March 2020 with offices in Shanghai and one employee.

Focus on sustainability

This year we also invested heavily in environmental sustainability to improve our environmental impact, and combined all our CSR initiatives in our first CSR report.