Eurosweet Expands Expert Blending Capabilities and Capacity
24 Nov 2015 --- Eurosweet was founded in 2004 as part of the Galam Group, a leading global producer and supplier of high quality, specialty ingredients to the food and non-food industries.
From its central Bottrop location in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany, Eurosweet produces a variety of liquid sugar blends for food and beverage manufacturers throughout Europe. Eurosweet’s liquid sugar offerings extend from pure and inverted sugars to a variety of different sugar mixes, including Galam’s own-brand liquid fructose. The company also provides specialty ingredients such as caramel and colorants, brew syrup, malt extract and citric acid.
Over the last few years, Eurosweet has built a firm reputation throughout Europe as a specialist sugar blender. In an exciting strategic new development, Eurosweet has decided to further expand the company’s blending abilities, with a focus on premium liquid sugars.
Remarkably easy to handle, liquid sugars streamline the production process, eliminating the need for dissolving, filtering or pasteurization stages. Not only reducing sugar losses during processing and storage, liquid sugars also ensure consistency in every batch thanks to constant specification and uniform quality.
Tim Cranko, Galam's Food and Beverage Division Manager, explained how Eurosweet hopes to further harness the benefits of liquid sugars for an even wider selection of food and beverage customers. “Considered a one-stop-shop solution, liquid sugars facilitate a more efficient production process. We want to offer manufacturers convenience, cost and QA advantages -starting from raw material handling and continuing throughout the production process. However, we recognize that certain ingredients, like polydextrose, while carrying significant manufacturing and nutritional advantages, are complicated to dissolve into liquid sugars and require our expert dissolving methods and equipment.”
Tim Cranko continued: “Polydextrose is just one example of a highly valuable ingredient that needs a solution. Clearly there is a need for convenient and robust liquid sweeteners that can handle the challenges of dust, smell, shelf life and costly granulation grades of granulated sugars. As a liquid sugars blending specialist, Eurosweet resolves this and other challenges with new dedicated production lines for optimizing liquid sugar blends, including the flash pasteurization line and the specialty powder dissolving units.”
Eurosweet’s flash pasteurization unit can significantly extend the shelf life of liquid sugars. The system ensures maximum microbiological safety and the highest product quality. The powder dissolving unit enables the rapid and clean induction, wetting and dispersing of the most challenging powders, such as polydextrose, even accommodating high concentrations.
Eurosweet is now in a position to leverage Galam's widespread experience in sweeteners combined with exclusive blending know-how. Eurosweet's specialists are poised to channels the company's expertise in liquid sugars into virtually every food segment.
