Sas van Gent Biorefinery

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Nombre / Name
Sas van Gent Biorefinery
Empresa / Company
Cargill and Nedalco  (www.cargill.com)
Localización / Location
Sas van Gent (Netherlands)
Categoría / Category
Comercial / Commercial
Estado / Status
Operación / Running
Plataforma / Platform
Almidón, Azúcares C5/C6 / Starch, C5/C6 sugars
Materia prima / Feedstock
Trigo y maíz en Cargill; subproductos de la planta de Cargill para Nedalco  / Wheat and corn at Cargill; wheat by-products of Cargill plant to Nedalco
Producto / Product
Almidón y derivados, proteínas de trigo y glucosa, bioetanol  / Starches, starch derivates, wheat proteins and glucose, bioethanol

Figure 1. Air shot Cargill and Nedalco plants (extracted from www.emg-pr.com)

Las instalaciones de Sas van Gent constituyen una biorrefinería integrada formada por la fábrica de almidón de Cargill y la planta de bioetanol de Royal Nedalco. Estas empresas, cuyas plantas son contiguas tanto en Holanda como en Reino Unido, han sido compañeras de negocios durante muchos años. De hecho, Cargill completó la adquisición del negocio de alcoholes de Royal Nedalco a su matriz Royal Cosun en 2011. En Sas van Gent, Cargill procesa trigo y maíz en almidón y derivados, proteínas de trigo y glucosa. La planta de procesado de trigo suministra a Nedalco las materias primas para su producción de alcohol. Sas van Gent facility is an integrated biorefinery of Cargill starch industry together with Royal Nedalco bioethanol plant. These companies, whose operating plants are adjacent to each other in both the Netherlands and the UK, have been business partners for many years. Actually, Cargill completed its acquisition of Royal Nedalco's alcohol business from its parent company Royal Cosun on 2011. In Sas van Gent, Cargill processes wheat and corn into starches, starches derivates, wheat proteins and glucose. The wheat processing plant supplies Nedalco with raw materials for its alcohol production process.

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REFERENCIAS / REFERENCES
1 www.cargill.com/company/businesses/nedalco/index.jsp.
2 IEA Bioenergy Task 42 Biorefining. Sustainable and synergetic processing of biomass into marketable food & feed ingredients, products (chemicals, materials) and energy (fuels, power, heat).  Wageningen, the Netherlands, August 2014.
3 IEA Bioenergy Task 42 Biorefining. Country report Netherlands. November 2014.

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