AGRANA Stärke GmbH specialises in processing and adding value to high quality agricultural commodities such as corn and potatoes to make a wide range of differentiated starch products.

Cooperation with customers and the development of tailor-made solutions has enabled the Starch segment of AGRANA to continuously grow and be commercially successful. The priority is and remains making top quality starch products employing modern and environmentally sensitive methods.

AGRANA supplies numerous sectors of industry with organic and GMO-free starches and speciality starch products and is also a producer of bioethanol for use as an environmentally friendly fuel.

AGRANA Stärke GmbH oversees the Austrian starch business and coordinates the activities of the subsidiaries and holding companies of the Starch segment in Hungary and Romania. The Starch segment includes a total of five production facilities.

Austria

• Potato starch mill in Gmünd
• Corn starch mill in Aschach an der Donau
• Bioethanol plant in Pischelsdorf

Hungary

• Corn starch, isoglucose and bioethanol plant of Hungrana Kft. in Szabadegyhaza

Romania

• Corn starch mill S.C.A.G.F.D. Tandarei s.r.l.

The research activities of this segment are undertaken by the Starch Technology department of Zuckerforschung Tulln GmbH (ZFT).