Industrial products · Suiker Unie is a member of the Royal Cosun group, a cooperative of more than 9,000 sugar beet growers in ... • Made from sugar beet or sugar cane. • Suiker

Industrial products

Product information

Food safety first

Logistics

Research & development

Contents

Logistics 4

Research & development 5

Food safety first 6

Product information 7 Granulated sugar 8 Icing sugar 10 Soft sugar 12 Liquid sugar products 14 Liquid sugar 14 Invert sugar syrups 15 Sugar syrups 16 Blended syrups 18

More information 19

Suiker Unie’s factories are amongst the most modern in the world. The company operates factories in Dinteloord and Vierverlaten in the Netherlands and Anklam in Germany. The sugar specialities, such as icing sugar, soft sugar and sugar syrups, are produced in factories in Puttershoek and Roosendaal in the Netherlands. Suiker Unie’s products are available in a large part of Europe. Suiker Unie serves the Dutch retail and foodservice markets under the Van Gilse brand name.

Suiker Unie works as sustainably as possible, from growing the beet to processing them into granulated sugar. We make full use of all the residual flows produced during the sugar process. Our biomass digesters are a good

example of our green credentials. They convert beet tops and tails, pressed beet pulp waste and other residual flows into green gas. Suiker Unie is the biggest green gas producer in the Netherlands. We also sell thick juice and molasses to the fermentation industry. In cooperation with our beet growers, suppliers, logistics partners and customers, we continuously seek further improvements in the sustainability of our supply chain.

This brochure provides an introduction to our product range and our services. For more information about our sustainable operations and our products, see www.suikerunie.com or contact our customer service.

Suiker Unie is a member of the Royal Cosun group, a

cooperative of more than 9,000 sugar beet growers in

the Netherlands. Our ambition is to be the best at

maximising the value of all components of the sugar

beet for our customers, growers and staff.

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With our advanced order processing, planning and delivery systems,

we are able to make flexible and just in time bulk sugar deliveries to our

customers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And we can deliver to you, too.

We can also manage the stock position in your silos and tanks using our Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) system. A sensor in your silo and an online internet connection continuously monitor your stock. If it falls below an agreed level, Suiker Unie automatically makes a new delivery of sugar. VMI saves you time and trouble. You do not need to worry about how much sugar you have. You can even monitor your stock position yourself on the internet. In addition to stock management, we can advise you on silo storage and internal sugar transport.

To guarantee quality, we use only dedicated sugar vehicles to deliver our products. Suiker Unie makes standard deliveries of sugar products to every region in the Netherlands twice a week. International deliveries can be tailored to the customers’ wishes. We have a wealth of international experience in transporting sugar by water, rail and road.

Sustainability is an important factor not only in the cultivation of the beet and the production of the sugar but also in our transport. We have taken many initiatives to limit CO2 emissions. We drive on our own biogas and use electric compressors at the customers’ delivery sites. And we have increased our bulk loading capacity so that our trucks can carry more per journey. These initiatives have won us the Lean & Green Award. In 2014 we want to cut our CO2 emissions by at least 20% relative to 2009.

Logistics: 24 hours a day, seven days a week

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To maximise the value of sugar beet as effectively and efficiently

as possible, Suiker Unie invests in research & development (R&D)

throughout the entire supply chain, from beet cultivation techniques

to process innovation to reduce energy consumption and increase

production capacity. We even invest in our customers’ product development.

Suiker Unie is also active in the biobased economy, in which the production of

bioplastics from sugar is just one of the many potential benefits.

Most of our R&D is carried out at Cosun Food Technology Centre (CFTC). Suiker Unie has its own laboratories and technology halls at CFTC, where its application and ingredient specialists perform a wide range of activities to perfect the application of our products in soft drinks, ice cream, chocolate, baked goods, sauces, dairy

products, confectionery and other products. We can therefore advise our customers and help them optimise their existing and new formulas and applications. We support them with our thorough knowledge of process technology and contribute to their process development.

Suiker Unie also uses a variety of analytical techniques and an expertly trained sensory panel to develop its products and applications. They enable us to perfect and control the flavour, aroma and texture of our products.

Research & Development: we work with our clients


Suiker Unie’s quality management system is driven by the customers’

wishes and demands. Food safety comes first.

It is guaranteed by our comprehensive HACCP system. All our factories in the Netherlands have ISO 22000 certification. They have also been awarded the GFSI-approved BRC standard for food safety, as has the factory in Anklam, Germany.

The basic product range is Halal and Kosher certified.

Environmental care, workplace safety and ethical practices (both internal and external) are important aspects of our operations as a sustainable business. Suiker Unie is accordingly certified to ISO 14001 standard, performs self-audits to ISO 26000 standard, is subject to UL Responsible Sourcing Inc audit and is a member of SEDEX.

To continuously improve and optimise our internal processes, Suiker Unie applies TPM (Total Productive Maintenance). The locations in Vierverlaten and Puttershoek have won the TPM Excellence Award.

Our quality control goes further than just our own processes. Beet growers and suppliers of consumables, technical equipment, packaging materials, logistics and other services are very closely involved in our quality and food safety processes.

Food safety first


Product informationSuiker Unie makes a wide range of sugar products. We classify

them in four groups: granulated sugar, soft sugar, icing sugar

and liquid specialities.

Each product has its own functional advantages when used in

applications. Your account manager will be pleased to find the most

suitable sugar product for your application.


Pure and natural, with a unique taste and essential properties, granulated sugar can be

applied in a wide variety of applications.

Basic properties • White clear crystals with an average grain size

of 0.5 to 1 mm.• Free flowing.• High sweetening power; gives a pure sweet

flavour to food; reference in sweetness as flavour.

• Made from sugar beet or sugar cane.• Suiker Unie granulated sugar standard is

white sugar (cat. 2), in accordance with directive 2001/111/EC.

• Several additional functional properties for food.

Basic parameters

Sacc

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Colo

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Ash

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Standard/ sieved

Min.99.7

Max.30

Max.2.5

Max.0.016

Max.0.05

Granulated sugar


Storage conditions• Unlimited shelf life when stored at 10-30°C

and a relative humidity of 50-60%.

Crystal sizesOur sieved granulated sugars range from 0.2 to 2.5 millimetres in ten screen sizes.Each screen size has its own specific applications. The finer sizes, for example, dissolve faster and the very coarse sizes are used for decoration.

Crystal sizes

In addition to this standard range, Suiker Unie can tailor the crystal size to its customers’ wishes.

Standard packaging 1,000 kg 30,000 kg

and up25 kg

Crystal sizes (mm)

0 0.5 1 1.5 2Super coarse

Extra coarse

Coarse

Medium coarse

Medium extra

Medium

Medium extra

Fine

Extra fine

Special extra fine


Icing sugar is the ideal sugar for decorating and creating velvety textures.

Basic properties • Ground granulated sugar.• Easy to process and free flowing. Controlled

in-line conditioning and the addition of suitable anti-caking agents provides the required flow behaviour.

• Easy to measure quantity.• Can be mixed well and homogenously with, for

instance, dry powder mixes.• Wide range of uses in the food industry, for

industrial products and products prepared according to traditional methods.

• Tailor-made solutions are possible with anti-caking agents and other ingredients.

Icing sugar


Basic parameters

Standard pakaging 1,000 kg25 kg

Anti-

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(%)

Icing sugar pure

None 0.020.03

25

Icing sugar with starch

Starch 4-5% 0.020.03

25

Icing sugar with TCP

Tricalcium phosphate 0.6-0.8%

0.020.03

25

Starmelis TCP Tricalcium phosphate 0.6-0.8%

0.030.04

25

Confectioner’s sugar

Dried glucose syrup

4-5%

0.020.03

25


Soft sugar has unique flavour and colour properties. It is perfectly suited for use in

biscuits, baked goods and sauces. Soft sugar is a Guaranteed Traditional Speciality.

This hallmark means the product has a special traditional character owing to its

composition or preparation.

Basic properties• Made by carefully blending granulated sugar of

a specific crystal size with an invert sugar syrup to produce a distinctive structure.

• Yellow and brown soft sugars are enriched with sugar syrup and caramel for more flavour and colour.

Soft sugar


Soft sugar range

Standard packaging

Sacc

haro

se (%

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Inve

rt S

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(%)

Aver

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part

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si

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m)

Colo

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White Min. 97 ca. 1.5 0.2-0.4 ca. 100

Yellow Min. 97 ca. 2.0 0.2-0.4 5,500 – 7,500

Brown Min. 96 ca. 1.0 0.5-0.9 15,000 – 20,000

Dark Min. 96 ca. 1.5 0.5-0.9 20,000 – 25,000

DarkSUP

Min. 96 ca. 2.0 0.5-0.9 20,000 – 30,000

Baking crystal

Min. 98 ca. 2.0 0.3-0.5 ca. 100

25 kg


Basic Properties • Sugar is dissolved, filtered and pasteurised.• Ready for use in your process (easy to pump at

room temperature).• Slightly viscous.• Aw = 0.85.• Colour and microbiologically stable due to

demineralisation, decolouring and UV treatment.

Liquid sugar product range

Standard packaging

We can also tailor our liquid sugar products and packaging to meet your wishes.

Liquid sugar

° Brix 67

Invert sugar (%) Max. 2

Saccharose (%) Min. 65

Colour (IU) Max. 10

1,400 kg 10,000 kg and up

Liquid sugar products

Liquid sugar


Basic properties • Manufactured by inverting liquid sugar.• Invert sugar contains equal quantities of

glucose and fructose.• Transparent and light in colour.• Slightly viscous.• Available with differing dry matter values.• Aw = 0.6 (invert sugar syrup, dry matter 80%).

We can invert sugar in two ways, by adding an acid or by using enzymes.

Invert sugar syrup product range

In addition to fully inverted sugar syrups, Suiker Unie makes partially inverted sugar solutions. Functional benefits• Good moisture stabiliser so that products

(e.g. cake and tobacco) remain fresh for longer.• Improves organoleptic properties of

fruit aromas.• Baked goods (e.g. gingerbread, brownies, etc.)

gain an attractive brown colour and pleasant taste more quickly.

• Preserving properties thanks to the reduction of water activity (e.g. in fruit preparations and preserved foods).

• Inhibits crystallisation in confectionery (e.g. fondant).

• Lowers freezing point (e.g. sorbet remains softer and easier to serve).

Standard packaging

We can also tailor our invert sugar syrup and packaging to meet your wishes.

Dry

mat

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%)

Sacc

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ry m

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pH

Vercosine® with the aid of an acid

80.0 Max. 5.0 2.0 - 4.5

Invertall® with the aid of invertase

80.0 Max. 0.2 4.0 - 6.5

Invert sugar syrup 76/50

76.0 45-50 3.5 - 4.5

Invert sugar syrup 72.5/62

72.5 30-45 4.0 - 7.0

1,400 kg 10,000 kg and up


Invert sugar syrups



Sugar syrups Basic properties• Obtained from crystallising sugar.• Purified, filtered and pasteurised.• Deep brown colour.• Aromatic (sweet/salty).• Viscous.• Long shelf life.

Sugar syrup product range

* Blends of beet and/or cane molasses with their own

sugar spectrum.

° Br

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Inve

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ugar

(%)

Sacc

haro

se (%

)

Tota

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)

Special industrial syrup

79 38-45 30-35 70-72

Dark sugar syrup

82 38-45 30-35 71-73

Melado® 81 23-33 33-43 64-66

Purified molasses

80-81 10-20 37-47 55-57

DB syrups*


Specialindustrial syrup

Dark brown and aromatic. Sweet/salt balance: the sweetest of the dark syrups.

Dark sugar syryp

Deeper brown than special industrial syrup. Also aromatic in taste. Slightly less sweet than special industrial syrup. More viscous than special industrial syrup due to higher brix value.

Benefits of sugar syrups• Large variety with characteristic tastes.• Long shelf life.• When delivered at high temperature,

easily pumpable and ready for use in your production process.

• Natural product without E numbers.

Standard packaging

We can also tailor our sugar syrup products and packaging to meet your wishes.

Melado® Higher concentration of molasses.Deeper brown than dark sugar syrup.

Purified molasses

Darkest and saltiest syrup with characteristic taste.

DB syrup Dark brown, refined, liquorice-like / cane molasses taste.

1,400 kg 5,000 kg and up

25 kg or12.5 kg


Ingredients that can also be added:• fructose• glucose syrups• colouring agents• perservatives• intensive sweeteners• thickening agents

Our blended syrups are formulated to have the desired sweetening profile and other

functional properties. Blended syrups can consist of liquid sugar, invert sugar and/or

sugar syrups. It is even possible to achieve a higher dry matter content than the individual

ingredients. Blended syrups are used in a wide variety of applications, from beverages

and sauces to numerous baked goods.


Blended syrups


For more information, including technical product specifications, contact your account

manager or Customer Service on +31 (0) 165 525 006 or [email protected].

If you have any questions about orders and deliveries, contact our Order Management

department on +31 (0) 165 525 001 or [email protected].

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Noordzeedijk 113 | 4671 TL Dinteloord | P.O. Box 100 | 4750 AC Oud Gastel | The Netherlands

T +31 (0)165 525 252 | F +31 (0)165 525 255 | [email protected] | www.suikerunie.com

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