About Beta Pura

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  2. About Beta Pura

About BETA pura gmbh

Beta Pura GmbH is a Joint Venture of AGRANA and The Amalgamated Sugar Company ....

 

Management Board

Management Board

Andreas Schröckenstein is the President of the Beta Pura board. Together with Josef Eisenschenk, Dave Meadows and Brian Roberson, he forms the company’s management board.

Joint Venture Partners

JOINT VENTURE PARTNERS

AGRANA

AGRANA is an internationally-oriented Austrian industrial company. We add value to agricultural commodities to create industrial products for downstream industries. AGRANA represents top product quality, optimal services as well as innovative ideas and expertise in terms of product development – products and services appreciated by our customers around the world, whether global or regional players.

  • Raw material availability
  • Location in the EU
  • Experience in chromatography and crystallization (ex works)
  • Expertise in different sales areas
  • Services

AMALGAMATED SUGAR COMPANY

The roots of the Amalgamated Sugar Company date back to 1897.  TASCO is the second largest sugar beet processor in the US and has approximately 180,000 hectares of plantations in Idaho, Oregon and Washington in the cooperative, giving it 1 million tonnes of sugar. Since 1997, Snake River Sugar Company has 100% operational control of the Amalgamated Sugar Company and since 2018 100% ownership, making it the parent company of the Amalgamated Sugar Company. Snake River Sugar Company is a cooperative of more than 750 sugar beet growers in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

  • Raw material availability
  • Technology providers
  • Experience from own plant
  • Service

 

 

History of Beta Pura GmbH

History of Beta Pura GmbH

1990

In the early 1990s, AGRANA invested in a molasses de-sugarization- to generate more sugar
Technology of ARi (Amalgamated Research Institute) without the possibility to derive betaine

2000/2001

Change to technology of Finnfeeds (now Dow Dupont) to generate also liquid betaine from the molasses (which had to be sold exclusively to Finnfeeds)

2013

AGRANA decided to switch back to the ARi technology and to get into the liquid betaine market.

2015

AGRANA has been producing liquid betaine with ARi technology since June 2015 and is selling it worldwide.