Profile
Royal Cosun is an agri-industrial group firmly rooted in the primary sector. The businesses that belong to Cosun are Aviko, Duynie, Sensus, Suiker Unie, SVZ and Cosun Biobased Products. They produce food ingredients and products that make their way to the food industry, foodservice sector and retail channels. In addition, the group is increasingly focusing on components for non-food applications.
Cosun's ambition is to get the most out of its raw materials: this is good for the environment, profitability and meets society's demand for responsible products and production methods. The Cosun businesses also supply products to the animal feed sector and residual products are used to produce biogas.
Royal Cosun was established nearly 120 years ago by Dutch sugar beet growers who united themselves in a cooperative. Today, the cooperative has some 8,800 member/shareholders and has grown into a business with 3,900 employees [in FTE] and a group turnover of about €2 billion annually.
Consun extract energy from plants
Suiker Unie:
- processes sugar beet into granulated sugar for human consumption
- sells the fibres that remain (pulp) as animal feed
- uses the molasses to make yeast or alcohol
- returns the soil attaching to the beet to the farms or uses it to raise land levels
- re-uses precipitated salts and minerals as soil improvers
- uses the purified water in its own production processes or to water plants in greenhouses
- ferments the organic residues into biogas.