BRAIN and Südzucker intensify co-operation on functional carbohydrates
BRAIN AG and Südzucker AG further intensify their long-term research cooperation. The joint research program aims at optimizing the production processes of functional carbohydrates in terms of product yield and energy efficiency. Overall objective of the collaboration is the sustainable fermentative and enzymatic production of functional carbohydrates with nutritional and technical benefits for the food industry.

Production plant of Palatinose ™ and ISOMALT
Südzucker AG
Already today an increasing part of sugar from sugar-beets is being further refined to high-quality speciality ingredients with specific health benefits, as e.g. Isomalt or Palatinose™,. For the production of these specialities more and more biological processes are used. Within the co-operation, which is partly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), BRAIN and Südzucker are optimizing a biological production process for PalatinoseTM, the only toothfriendly sugar with additional health benefits, produced and marketed by BENEO, a 100% subsidiary of Südzucker.
An optimised production process shall lead to a reduced energy consumption as well as to a lower number of the complex product purification steps. During a first operational phase of the co-operation an important milestone was achieved by significantly increasing in the efficiency of the production process. This joint success resulted in further expanding and continuing the partnership.
“Through the collaboration with BRAIN we want to improve the industrial processes for the sustainable production of specialities for functional food products“, says Dr. Wolfgang Wach, Head of Biotechnology within the Südzucker AG. “The co-operation with BRAIN completes and expedites our own research activities within that segment. The first, very promising results confirm that we, together with our strategic partner BRAIN will achieve our goals.“
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