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Agrana Staerke GmbH

Native Potato Starch

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AGRANA Stärke GmbH is the operating company of the starch division with a potato starch factory in Gmünd, a corn starch factory in Aschach and a bioethanol plant in Pischelsdorf.

Agrana Staerke GmbH is part of the AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG, founded in 1988 as the holding company of the Austrian sugar and starch industry.

Today Agrana is one of the leading sugar and starch producers in Central Europe, the world leader in fruit preparations for the dairy industry, and one of the world’s largest producers of concentrated fruit juices.

The Segment Starch includes production facilities in Austria, Hungary and Romania. AGRANA’s corn and potato starch factories manufacture special products for the reprocessing industry that are tailored to customers’ specific requirements.

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AGRANA expands production capacity for technical starches and invests EUR 23 million (USD 24,8 million) at Gmünd site
May 22, 2023

AGRANA expands production capacity for technical starches and invests EUR 23 million at Gmünd site

This year, the fruit, starch and sugar group AGRANA is starting with the construction of an additional drum drying plant at the site of its potato starch mill in Gmünd (Waldviertel District of Lower Austria).
Longest ever starch potato processing campaign: AGRANA processed a record quantity of 322,000 metric tons of starch potatoes in 189 days
March 06, 2021

AGRANA processed a record quantity of starch potatoes in its longest campaign ever

At the end of February, AGRANA successfully ended its processing of the 2020/2021 potato harvest at its potato starch mill in Gmünd (Lower Austria). With a processing period of 189 days, this was AGRANA's longest ever campaign in Austria.
January 26, 2012

Agrana successfully completes the 2011|12 sugar beet and potato starch campaigns

On 23 January, AGRANA completed the sugar beet campaign at its refinery in Tulln, thereby signalling the successful close of the 2011|12 processing season at all of its facilities.
Agrana potato starch campaign completed: 40,200 tonnes of potato starch produced
January 26, 2010

Agrana potato starch campaign completed: 40,200 tonnes of potato starch produced

During the potato starch campaign at the AGRANA plant in Gmünd, Lower Austria, between 26 August and 15 December 2009, a total of 187,400 tonnes of starch potatoes were processed (prior year: 198,532 tonnes), of which 5,100 tonnes were organic potatoes...