Starch

Starch has been an important element for several years. The extracting of starch is done in many different steps, were every step demands its machine. To find out more which products LarssonSweden offers, look under "Products".

Extraction of starch differs from country to country dependent upon individual agricultural supply. In Europe it is usally wheat and potato, in Asia it is rice and cassava nuts (e.g. tapioca) and corn in USA.

Starch is used within many areas, for example alcohol production, paper, textile, glue and sweets (wine gum and jelly).

Milestones in LarssonSweden history

1948 Gösta Larsson founded LarssonSweden

1950 the first LarssonSweden products were delivered domestic.

1961 LarssonSweden receives its first export contract to Denmark

1968 LarssonSweden became a joint stock company. The first machines were

exported to the tapioca starch industry in Malaysia

1987 LarssonSweden got the contract for Wendland Stärke in Germany, the first new potato starch factory build in decades in Europe.

1988 Ter Apel Kanaal, the world´s largest potato starch industry was rebulit in Holland. LarssonSweden was the main component supplier.

1992 LarssonSweden delivered a whole factory  to the tapioca industry in the north

of Thailand, National Starch Kalasin.

2002 the whole company moved from Barum to Bromölla.

2007 a Rep. Office is opened in Guangzhou, China.

2009 a Rep. Office is opened in Minsk, Belarus

2011 LarssonSweden get a contract for the supply of a complete tapioca starch plant in South America, Codipsa 4 in Paraguay.