On 7 March, the local ecological environment bureau accepted and publicized the environmental impact report for the inositol and liquid sugar mixture project of Hunan Norchem Biotech Co., Ltd. (Norchem Biotech).
Project overview
- Nature: Expansion and renovation
- Location: Jinshi High-tech Industrial Development Zone, Hunan Province
- Total investment: USD1.4 million (RMB 10 million)
- Product plan: 1,000 t/a of inositol (feed grade) 30,000 t/a of 58.5% liquid sugar mixture (composition: sucrose 60%, fructose 20%, glucose 20%)
- Process flow:
- Utilizing enzymes produced by microbial fermentation to hydrolyze starch, followed by purification and refining processes to produce inositol.
- Sugar juice (with 15% sugar content) undergoes a series of refining and purification processes, including high-temperature sterilization, adsorption decolorization, plate and frame filtration, and concentration, to obtain the liquid sugar mixture.
- Labor quota: 30 new employees
- Working system: Three 8hr shifts per day, 300 working days per year.
- Construction period: 6 months
Currently, Norchem Biotech can produce 10,000 t/a of saccharification enzyme, 300 t/a of adenosine, 2,000 t/a of feed-grade calcium pantothenate, 2,000 t/a of food-grade alanine, and 1,500 t/a of cytidine.
You can get more information on China’s corn deep-processing industry by checking out NK Corn Deep-Processing China News.
