Südzucker has completed 18-month long construction of a wheat starch factory at its combined site in Zeitz, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.###The plant will be commissioned after completion of final testing.###The factory will convert wheat from the neighboring regions to glucose syrups for the food and chemical industries and has generated about 100 new jobs.###The plant’s production capacity is 140,000 tons of glucose syrup per year.###Bran for the animal feed industry and the plant protein gluten will be ref200 mg ferrous fumarateined in addition to the primary product, glucose syrup.###Gluten is a key raw material also used for the bakery industry and fish farming.###The project was completed on schedule and within the budgeted €125 million (US$141.79 million).###Südzucker already operates a sugar factory at the Zeitz location.###The company’s subsidiary CropEnergies AG runs a bioethanol, a rectified spirits and a carbon dioxide liquefaction plant at the same site.###Integrating the new factory into this existing production environment will bring about a common use of the energy infrastructure, which results in high capacity utilization of the existing fluidized-bed boiler.###The sugar factory, which uses thermal processes and generates excess electric power, also complements the wheacitracal calcium chewst starch factory, which requires little heat but a substantial amount of electricity.###In addition, starch process byproducts can be converted to ethanol in the bioethanol plants.###Overall, the wheat starch plant utilizes the input raw materials and converts them to high value products.###Glucose production and use###The plant was located at Zeitz because it is a traditional wheat growing area that boasts especially protein-rich wheat.###The wheat is transported by truck to large intermediate storage silos, and from there to a flour mill.###Here the wheat is first scoured, which entails removing impurities such as sand, pebbles and husks, before it is prepared for grinding.###The wheat is subsequently ground in roller mills to make flour.###The main byproduct is bran, which is pelletized and stored and subsequently sold to the animal feed industry.###After grinding, the wet wheat milling process serves to separate the flour into two major components, starch and gluten, thereby separating unwanted residuals.###This entails mixing the flour with water and subsequently decanting it into the two main components.###A significant share of the byproducts is already separated at this stage by purely mechanical means.###Further downstream in the process, the starch and gluten are washed with water and screened to remove impuritieaspartate lactate and citrate que ess.###Additional equipment is used to treat the water and subsequently recycle it in the process, which drastically reduces water conskal calcium citrate chewableumption.###The gluten extracted in this process is subsequently dried in ring dryers.###Beneo, a Südzucker subsidiary, then markets the protein around the world as Vital Wheat Gluten.###The other byproduct of the wet wheat milling process is the washed starch.###Starch consists mainly of long glucose chains, also known as grape sugar.###Figuratively speaking, the next step in the production of glucose syrup simulates the processes of baking and human digestion.###Heat and enzymes are used to break down the long glucose chains.###The degree of breakdown of the glucose chains depends on how long they are processed.###The procmaximum calcium citrate plus vitamin dess is specifically controlled to produce glucose syrups that have varying properties.###The byproduct of the wet wheat milling process is converted to ethanol in the bioethanol plants.