Our History. It has been an incredible journey from the construction
of modified starch reactors in the 1960s and our first turnkey starch factory in Denmark in the late 1980s to today.
Over fifty production facilities have been established, producing native
starches, modified starches, and glucose. These cases highlight some of the
steps along this exciting path. We hope you will join us.
1968: Reactors for the wet-modification of starch
In Karup in 1968, the first Danish factory for the production of wet-modified starches was inaugurated.
The reactors were made of Polypropylene (PP) and externally reinforced with fiberglass.
The factory was later relocated to Brande and became part of a significantly expanded production facility for modified starches.
1990: Potato Starch Factory Triples Production
Potato Starch Factory Triples Production After DKK 67 Million
Investment
The cooperative Potato Starch Factory in Southern Jutland, Toftlund, has
invested DKK 67 million in an expansion project that triples its
production capacity to over 200,000 tons, with an expected output of
150,000 tons this year. This significant investment allows the factory
to sell potato starch worth DKK 120-130 million.
The factory's expansion includes new reception and washing facilities,
extraction, refining, and drying systems, making it one of the most
modern and automated in the world. The project, designed in
collaboration with KMC Starch Engineering [now International Starch
Institute A/S] and Swedish inventor Gosta Larsson, also features an
energy-efficient natural gas-based drying system with a recovery unit.
The increased production necessitates a larger supplier base, now
involving 400 farmers, including a growing number from Germany, up from
the previous 200. The supplier network is expected to expand further in
the coming years.
This information is from an article published in the newspaper Børsen
on November 27, 1990.
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1996 Tianjin Tingfung Starch Development Co Ltd
The company is located in the Economic Development Zone Tianjin, 300000
China Tianjin Tingfung Starch Development Co. Ltd. manufactures and
distributes modified starch products. The Company applies its products to
instant foods, frozen foods, dairy products, dressings, and fried product
fields. Business began in 1996 and our company has supplied advanced
equipment and know-how from Denmark to manufacture various series of
modified starch and instant starch from native potato starch, native tapioca
starch, waxy maize starch and regular corn starch.
2001 Ayensu Starch to be the first in Ghana
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The starch was marketed by
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Ayensu Starch (ASCo)
Cassava starch plant to be the first in Ghana.
President John Kufuor established a working group
"Presidents Special Initiative (PSI)" to promote the agro-food
industry. We have just built the Redhill factory in South Africa as the
first modern cassava starch factory in Africa and PSI decided to follow
up on that success and introduce the same technology in Ghana. The
initiative was backed up by government, farmers, local banks and others.
From the Danish side Danida went in with a comprehensive three-year
training package. This package included, inter alia approach to the use
of effluent as fertilizer on farmland by land spreading and methods to
monitor fertilizer efficiency as well as any nitrogen leakage to sub
soil waters.
2006 Ekha Farms
Ekha FarmsLocated east of Lagos this factory is
dedicated to the production of glucose syrups from cassava roots.
2010 Swaziland
Swaziland Cassava.
This factory in Swaziland has a capacity of 4 tons of native starch per
hour. For the first time in the cassava industry, we introduced
efficient rotating drums for washing the roots in the same way as we
have used for decades for washing potatoes in our home market in
Denmark. Likewise, we used high-efficiency hydrocyclones to refine the
starch. The result was starch of high international quality.
2018 Crest Agro
Crest AgroThe factory is located in Nigeria and is
processing cassava to native starch.
2023 AKV
AKV Langholt
AKV Langholt is the northernmost of Denmark's four potato starch factories and
has approx. 185 members mainly resident in Vendsyssel and Himmerland. AKV has
its factory facilities at Langholt north of Aalborg. AKV Langholt produces
potato starch based on deliveries of potatoes from the factory's members. The
potatoes are delivered to the factory in the period September to December, the
so-called campaign period, during which potato starch is produced around the
clock.
