Category Archives: Food ingredient and Feed additive

Fuyang Bio-tech Completed Modified Starch Expansion Project

Chengdu COFCO’s 150,000 t/a starch-based sugar expansion project

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Currently, COFCO Biochemical (Chengdu) Co., Ltd. (Chengdu COFCO) is able to produce 100,000 t/a of F55 HFCS (high fructose corn syrup), 20,000 t/a of maltose and 36,000 t/a flavored syrup. I

In order to increase its market share in northwest China and satisfy high-end product market demand, Chengdu COFCO plans to construct 150,000 t/a starch-based sugar expansion project, and on 24 Sept., the local environmental protection department accepted the environmental impact report of this project.

 

Project overview:

Nature: expansion

Location: Xinjin District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

Total investment: RMB250 million, of which RMB11.48 million for environmental protection

Construction plan: establish a HFCS production line Expand the special sugar workshop and add a new flavor syrup production filling line. Etc.

Product plan: 150,000 t/a HFCS, 2,000 t/a flavored syrup will be added. After completion, the product scale of the plant is 250,000 t/a HFCS, 20,000 t/a maltose, 38,000 t/a flavored syrup.

Key raw material: corn starch

Labor quta: 25 new people (current 150 people)

Construction period: 15 months

 

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Shandong Aobo’s food-grade amino acids project

Henan Julong’s L-tryptophan technical transformation project

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On 30 Sept., the local environment protection bureau accepted and publicized the environmental impact report of Henan Julong Biological Engineering co., Ltd. (Henan Julong)’s L-tryptophan production line technical transformation project.

Project overview Nature: Reconstruction

Address: Henan Julong’s plant, Ruzhou City, Henan Province

Total investment: RMB2.4 million

 

Construction contents: Technical transformation was carried out on the basis of the existing 2000 t/a of L-tryptophan production line, the strain of the production line was replaced, and three new products of L-valine, L-shikimic acid and clostridium butyricum were produced by fermentation process, and storage tanks, mixing tanks, freezers, evaporative condensers, centrifuges, dryers, baking boxes and supporting facilities were added.

 

Product plan: After the completion of the project, the production scale changed from 2,000 t/a L-tryptophan to 135 t/a L-tryptophan, 1,233 t/a L-valine, 150 t/a L-shikimic acid, 474 t/a clostridium butyrate

 

Main raw material: 15,335 t/a liquid glucose (self-produced)

 

Henan Julong has completed several projects, and it takes corn as starting material to produce starch slurry and then 200 t/a L-histidine, 372 t/a L-theanine, 102 t/a D-ribose, 582 t/a adenosine, 753 t/a adenine, 1,250 t/a cytosine, 2,700 t/a L-tryptophan, 4,000 t/a cell protein, 400 t/a L-hydroxyproline, 100 t/a cyclic adenosine, 997 t/a L-alanine, 4,032 t/a n-acetylglucosamine, 960 t/a gamma-aminobutyric acid, 1,037 t/a adenosine, 2,880 t/a vitamin B2.

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Jilin OGO Completed Starch-based Sugar Expansion Project

Huainan Runloy’s polydextrose put into commercial production

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Runloy Biotechnology (Huainan) Co., Ltd.’s 100,000 t/a polydextrose project was planned to be constructed over two phases (Phase I: 30,000 t/a polydextrose; Phase II: 70,000 t/a polydextrose and 5,000 t/a dietary fiber solid drink). On 2 August, the monitoring report on the inspection and acceptance of the completed environmental protection facilities of stage one of Huainan Runloy’s 100,000 t/a polydextrose project (Phase I) was publicized.

Overview of stage one

Construction nature: New construction

Location: Maoji Social Development Comprehensive Experimental Area, Huainan City, Anhui Province

Total investment: RMB68 million, of which RMB2.84 million for environmental protection

Product plan: 15,000 t/a polydextrose is prepared from 30,000 t/a of glucose monohydrate and about 3,300 t/a sorbitol using about 333 t/a citric acid as the catalyst.

Labour quota: 40 employees

Working system: Three 8h shifts per 24h workday, totalling 7,200 working hours or 300 working days a year

Progress:

Commencement of construction: July 2023

Completion of construction: May 2024

On-site environmental monitoring: 23~24 May 2024, 14~15 June 2024

Huainan Runloy is 100% owned by Runloy Biotechnology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Besides, Huainan Runloy’s brother company, Runloy Biotechnology (Anhui) Co., Ltd., located in Fenghuangshan Economic Development, Xiangshan District, Huaibei City, is currently producing 15,000 t/a polydextrose.

 

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Norchem Biotech's Inositol and Liquid Sugar Project

Hebei Qianyang’s 30,000 t/a amino acid project

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On August 2, the Shijiazhuang Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone planned to approve the environmental impact assessment (EIA) document of Hebei Qianyang Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Hebei Qianyang)’s 30,000 t/a amino acid project (first phase project).

Project overview

  • Type of project: New Construction
  • Location: Circular Chemical Industry Park, Shijiazhuang High-tech Zone, Hebei Province
  • Total investment: USD27.9 million (RMB201.76 million), of which environmental protection investment is USD4.3 million (RMB30.75 million)
  • Construction contents:

Construction of production workshops, quality inspection complex building, comprehensive warehouse, auxiliary rooms, environmental protection treatment area, tank area, guard room, firefighting pool and other auxiliary facilities.

  • Product Scheme:
    • L-aspartic acid 10,000 t/a;
    • fumaric acid 10,000 t/a;
    • L-alanine 5,000 t/a;
    • serine 1,000 t/a;
    • cystine 1,000 t/a;
    • proline 1,000 t/a;
    • β-alanine 1,000 t/a;
    • By-products:
      • ammonium sulfate 6,000 t/a;
      • liquid fertilizer 9,000 t/a;
      • protein feed 3,880 t/a;
      • ammonia (20%) 3,000 t/a.
    • Labor quota: 66 people
    • Working system: four shifts and three operations, 300 working days per year
    • Construction period: 12 months

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corn starch projects

Two modified corn starch projects in Zouping city

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On July 24, the local authority of Zouping City accepted and publicized the environmental impact assessment (EIA) documents for Shandong Hongsheng Starch Technology Co., Ltd. (Shandong Hongsheng)’s 50,000 t/a pre-gelatinized starch products & equipment optimization and upgrading technical transformation project.

Project overview

  • Type of project: Technical Innovation
  • Location: Shandong Hongsheng’s plant, Zouping City, Binzhou City, Shandong Province
  • Total investment: USD1.7 million (RMB12 million), of which USD0.17 million (RMB1.2 million) is environmental protection investment
  • Construction contents:
    • optimize and upgrade the production process and equipment of the existing projects;
    • transform the warehouse into a liquid pre-gelatinized starch production workshop;
    • add 37 sets of equipment such as stirring and dispersing tanks, double-screw circulating heating tanks, and biomass steam generators.
  • Product Scheme: After the transformation, the product will be optimized from the original 30,000 t/a liquid pregelatinized starch and 20,000 t/a solid pre-gelatinized starch to 45,000 t/a liquid pre-gelatinized starch and 5,000 t/a solid pregelatinized starch.
  • Main raw materials:
    • Corn starch (solid) reduced from 15,000 t/a to 8,000 t/a;
    • Corn starch (35%) reduced from 5,000 t/a to 3,000 t/a;
    • Tapioca starch (solid) reduced from 11,282 t/a to 9,651 t/a;
    • Hydroxypropyl cellulose 1,500 t/a (No change), etc.
  • Labor quota and working system: 10 persons. Three shifts, 300 days of work per year.
  • Construction period: 3 months

 

On August 1, the local authority accepted and publicized the environmental impact assessment (EIA) documents for Shandong Qidali Industrial Technology Co., Ltd.’s 5,000 t/a of gelatinized starch project.

Project overview

  • Type of project: New Construction
  • Location: Gaotang County, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province
  • Total investment: USD0.7 million (RMB5 million)
  • Construction contents:

Lease the existing idle plant, mainly purchase 4 sets of feeders, 2 sets of mixers, 2 sets of gelatinization silos, 2 sets of gelatinization machines, 2 sets of air conveyors, 2 sets of cooling silos, 2 sets of dust collectors, 2 sets of packaging silos and other equipment.

  • Product Scheme: 5,000 t/a gelatinized starch
  • Main raw materials: 5,000 t/a corn starch
  • Labor quota and working system: 5 persons. One shift system, working 300 days per year.
  • Construction period: 4 months

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Shandong Xiangrui’s 300,000 t/a monosodium glutamate project

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On August 13, Dongping County Ecological Environment Bureau accepted and publicized the Environmental Impact (EI) Report of Shandong Xiangrui Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Shandong Xiangrui)’s 300,000 t/a monosodium glutamate project.

Project overview

  • Type of project: New construction
  • Total investment: USD123 million (RMB888.07 million)
  • Construction contents: construction of production plants, tanks and other facilities, using existing engineering products (glucose, corn syrup) as raw materials, the production of 300,000 t/a monosodium glutamate and 30,000 t/a mycelium protein (by-products).
  • Labor quota: 200 people, transferred from existing employees, working 333 days, 8000hours per year.

The current capacity of Shandong Xiangrui is consuming 364,800 t/a of corn to produce 240,000 t/a of corn starch, 200,000 t/a of pharmaceutical-grade glucose, 120,000 t/a of anhydrous glucose, 20,000 t/a of food-grade glycerol, and so on.

 

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Puyang Hongye’s’ Furfuryl Alcohol Reconstruction Project

Xinlianxin’s furfural project processing well

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Recently, at the construction site of Inner Mongolia Xinlianxin Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Xinlianxin) in Dalad Economic Development Zone, tower cranes stand in great numbers and machinery roars, and the project progress is advancing in an orderly manner. Xinlianxin planned to invest USD159.06 million (RMB1.15 billion) to construct the biomass efficient circular utilization and clean production project. The project will be constructed in two phases, and the Phase I Project officially started in early March 2024.

Phase I project overview

  • Location: Sanchangliang Industrial Area, Dalat Industrial Park, Dalat Economic Development Zone, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
  • Total investment: USD55 million (RMB400 million), of which environmental protection investment is USD0.57 million (RMB4.09 million)
  • Construction contents and scale: produce 20,000 tons of furfural per year, mainly to build furfural workshops, sheds, yards, furfural storage tanks and other storage and transportation projects, as well as supporting public and auxiliary projects and environmental protection projects.
  • Main raw materials: 220,000 t/a corn cobs
  • Labor quota and working system: 130 people, 300 working days per year
  • Environmental impact assessment (EIA) approval: January 16, 2024

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