Agrana Starts € 65m Investment

IndustrialsBasic Resources ♦ Published: May 3, 2012; 18:29 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Austrian sugar and starch company is laying the foundation stone for a wheat starch plant in Lower Austria.

Agrana Starts € 65m Investment / Picture: © Vindobona.org

Agrana today laid the foundation stone for a starch plant at the site of its bioethanol plant in Pischelsdorf in Lower Austria. The € 65m plant, which is due to be commissioned at the end of 2013, represents an important step in the direction of greater resource efficiency at the site.

The new facility will process around 250,000 tonnes of wheat…