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LarssonSweden was founded in 1948 and is today a leading manufacturer of process equipment for the starch industry. LarssonSweden has built up a substantial bank of expertise that covers the entire starch process in different adaptations for several starch sources. LarssonSweden patents and LarssonSweden machines, equipment and expertise have opened the doors to an expansive export all over the world. Its manufacturing plant is located together with its head office in Bromölla in southern Sweden. LarssonSweden has since august 2007 a trading company, located in Guangzhou, since 2009 a Rep. Office in Belarus, located in Minsk and since 2015, a trading company in Brazil, located in Curitiba, Parana. Through a network of specialized sub-contractors and partners in different areas, LarssonSweden offers efficient solutions and extensive delivery capacity. LarssonSweden is an independent company, wholly-owned by the Larsson family.

AGRANA, an internationally oriented Austrian company, adds value to agricultural commodities to produce top quality foodstuffs and numerous industrial upstream products. With its close dependence on agricultural crops, AGRANA is passionately committed to the careful use and conservation of natural resources.

The Company was founded in 1988 and is today the leading sugar company in Central and Eastern Europe as well as being a key producer, in the Starch segment, of special products and bioethanol in Europe. Starches are sold both to the food and beverage industry as well as into non-food industries (for example, the paper, textile and building materials sectors). AGRANA is also the global leader in fruit preparations and one of the largest European producers of fruit juice concentrates. Around 8,800 personnel are working at over 50 production facilities on all 5 continents. AGRANA’s aim is to provide both its globally operating and its regional customers worldwide with high product quality, optimum service and innovative product development ideas and expertise. In line with the principle of sustainable, circular flows of resources, an important role is also played by valuable co-products of sugar and starch production at AGRANA, used for instance in the production of bioethanol, animal feed and fertilizer. AGRANA’s efficient use of raw materials is both an economic imperative and a way of practicing corporate responsibility.