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Pressed pulp
Steam Evaporation
Fuel Electricity
Biogas
Thick juice
Power plant Pulp press Dryer Pellet press
Animal
Surplus feed
Fuel
Electricity Crystallisation
Steam
Biogas
Sugar
products
Centrifuging Dryer Silos Service centre
Molasses
How we extract sugar from beet From the beet
Sugar production from the beet to the customer
2.5 We produce about 2.5 million tonnes of to sugar
sugar each year at our eighteen production
and refinery facilities in Europe.
After the beet is sown in spring, it is har- This thick, golden-brown juice is then further Over the last twenty years, we have
reduced our energy consumption by
vested from September, having soaked up concentrated in the boiling station. At a certain
CO2 forty-five per cent and our CO2 emissions
around 180 days of sunshine. The beet is concentration, sugar crystals begin to form. A
by almost sixty-five per cent.
usually stored at the edge of the field in thick pulp, known as magma, forms a mixture 65
beet clamps until it is collected. of crystals and syrup. This massecuite is
Sugar beet consists of up to seventy-five
drained into mash tuns to cool.
per cent water. We are able to cover some
ninety per cent of our entire water require-
Beet receiving and extraction
Centrifugation
ment by reusing almost half of this water Sugar production
20 content. The water is reused approximately
Lorries transport the beet to the sugar
plant, unloading it in the plants beet yard. The massecuite flows from the mash tuns into
twenty times. step by step
The beet is then carried by conveyor belt the centrifuges, where the crystals are separat- Want to know more?
to a washing facility. Slicer machines in the
plant cut the beet into thin cossettes, from
ed from the syrup by centrifugal force. The
sugar is now white. If this sugar is now dissolved ? You can find our current sustainability
report and other information at
which hot water extracts the sugar in diffu- and allowed to crystallise again, a particularly www.nordzucker.de
sion towers, creating a sugar solution: the pure and high-quality sugar is formed refined www.nordzucker-growing-together.com
raw juice. The spent beet pulp is used in sugar. The centrifugation leaves behind a thick
the production of animal feed. syrup-like product molasses. Molasses is used
in the production of animal feed and as a raw
material in the production of yeast and alcohol.
Juice purification and evaporation
The non-sugar substances in the raw juice Storing and preparing varieties of sugar
are separated during juice purification with
the help of calcium carbonate and carbon The finished sugar is dried, cooled, and
dioxide. After being filtered twice, there transported to silos where it is stored tempo-
remains a clear, pale-yellow clarified juice rarily. To meet customer requirements, the
with a sugar content of sixteen per cent. sugar is sieved and then sold loose
The evaporation plant extracts water from or as p ackaged goods.
the clarified juice in several stages until the
sugar content reaches about seventy per
cent in the form of a thick juice.
Nordzucker AG
Kchenstrae 9
38100 Braunschweig
Telephone +49 (0) 531 24 11-0
Fax +49 (0) 531 24 11-100
July 2015
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