Patents Assigned to Südzucker AG
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Patent number: 11697642Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), which converts a fructose-containing component using a catalytically active anolyte fraction, which has been produced by electrolysis of water, at a temperature of 90 to 200° C. and for obtaining an HMF-containing product mixture, wherein advantageously a high HMF selectivity is achieved with significantly lower by-product formation.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: SÜDZUCKER AGInventors: Alireza Haji Begli, Christine Kröner, Waldemar Tschilingiri, Ralf Riemenschnitter, Kay Mantyk
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Patent number: 11548863Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), which converts a fructose-containing component using a catalyst system comprising a solution of a salt and acid mixture at a temperature of 90 to 200° C. and leads to obtaining an HMF-containing product mixture, wherein advantageously a high HMF selectivity with significantly lower by-product formation is achieved at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: SÜDZUCKER AGInventors: Alireza Haji Begli, Christine Kröner, Kay Mantyk, Ralf Riemenschnitter
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Patent number: 10961543Abstract: The invention relates to tonoplast proton/sugar antiporter proteins, more particularly tonoplast proton/saccharose antiporter proteins, the nucleotide sequences which encode them and uses thereof for producing transgenic plants with an increased saccharose concentration. The invention also includes methods for producing transgenic plants with an increased saccharose concentration, methods for increasing the saccharose concentration in plants, and for identifying plants which are suitable for creating a higher saccharose concentration.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignees: KWS SAAT SE & CO. KGAA, SÜDZUCKER AGInventors: Wolfgang Koch, Norbert Sauer, Petra Wirsching, Benjamin Pommerrenig, Ekkehard Neuhaus, Benjamin Jung, Ulf-Ingo Flügge, Frank Ludewig, Nicole Lenzen, Irene Marten, Rainer Hedrich, Alexander Schulz
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Publication number: 20200002300Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) in a continuous process, which leads to the obtainment of an HMF fraction, a carbohydrate/acid fraction, a fructose fraction, and a levulinic-acid and formic-acid fraction and advantageously makes it possible, because of the purity of the obtained fractions, to return the fructose fraction obtained by means of the method directly to the production process and to use the other fractions in further-processing processes without the need for complex, additional purification steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2017Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: Südzucker AGInventors: Markwart KUNZ, Alireza HAJI BEGLI, Christine KRÖNER, Wolfgang WACH, Alain-Michel GRAF, Wolfgang KRAUS
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Patent number: 10485246Abstract: The prevent invention relates to a fondant comprising a sugar system made up of a first non-crystalline phase and a second crystalline phase, wherein the non-crystalline phase contains isomaltulose and sucrose and wherein the crystalline phase contains isomaltulose. The invention also relates to a method for the production thereof, the use of the fondant as icing, coating or filling for baked goods and baked goods that are completely or partially coated with the fondant according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: SUEDZUCKER AGInventors: Stephan Marhoefer, Joerg Bernard
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Publication number: 20190021389Abstract: The disclosure provides a process for the preparation of pellets containing wheat gluten, including: ?A preparatory step, in which a raw material containing at least 50 wt. % wheat gluten is brought to a particle size distribution having a D90 of at most 175 ?m, to form a feeding material; and ?A pelletizing step, in which the feeding material is formed into pellets.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2017Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicants: SUEDZUCKER AG, BIOWANZE N.V.Inventors: Hans-Joerg MENGER, Ralf MOELLER, Andre TONNEAUX
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Publication number: 20180080037Abstract: The invention relates to tonoplast proton/sugar antiporter proteins, more particularly tonoplast proton/saccharose antiporter proteins, the nucleotide sequences which encode them and uses thereof for producing transgenic plants with an increased saccharose concentration. The invention also includes methods for producing transgenic plants with an increased saccharose concentration, methods for increasing the saccharose concentration in plants, and for identifying plants which are suitable for creating a higher saccharose concentration.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2015Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicants: KWS SAAT SE, SÜDZUCKER AGInventors: Wolfgang KOCH, Norbert SAUER, Petra WIRSCHING, Benjamin POMMERRENIG, Ekkehard NEUHAUS, Benjamin JUNG, Ulf-Ingo FLÜGGE, Frank LUDEWIG, Nicole WÖSTEFELD, Irene MARTEN, Rainer HEDRICH, Alexander SCHULZ
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Publication number: 20180066329Abstract: A stirrer for a crystallizing evaporator such a crystallizing evaporator for crystallizing sucrose from concentrated beet juice. The stirrer includes at least one active flow-conducting means selected from a group consisting of a plurality of flow-conducting propellers arranged along a shaft of the stirrer and a screw running along the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2016Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: SÜDZUCKER AGInventor: Jochen ARNOLD
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Publication number: 20150237883Abstract: The prevent invention relates to a fondant comprising a sugar system made up of a first non-crystalline phase and a second crystalline phase, wherein the non-crystalline phase contains isomaltulose and sucrose and wherein the crystalline phase contains isomaltulose. The invention also relates to a method for the production thereof, the use of the fondant as icing, coating or filling for baked goods and baked goods that are completely or partially coated with the fondant according to the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: SUEDZUCKER AGInventors: Stephan Marhoefer, Joerg Bernard
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Patent number: 9029635Abstract: A nucleic acid suitable for reducing the enzymatic activity of an invertase for configuring a sucrose storage organ of a plant, wherein the sucrose concentration is increased relative to the sucrose concentration of an unchanged control sucrose storage organ of the same genotype at a comparable stage of development. The increase in sucrose concentration by X percentage points can thereby lead to a changed or unchanged sucrose storage organ yield, wherein, in the case of a reduction in the sucrose storage organ yield, the reduction is a maximum of 5X percent. The invention further relates to a method for increasing the sucrose yield in agricultural production of sugar beet or sugar cane plants, wherein sugar beet or sugar cane plants are used, the genetic makeup thereof being set up for reducing the enzymatic activity of an invertase.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignees: KWS Saat AG, Suedzucker AG Mannheim/OchsenfurtInventors: Karsten Harms, Britta Schulz
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Patent number: 8878003Abstract: A promoter with an organ-specific activity in plants. The promoter is characterized in that it exhibits greater activity in the storage organs of plants than in other organs of said plants and that the promoter activity is modified after the harvest of the storage organs and is greater than prior to said harvest.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignees: KWS SAAT AG, Suedzucker AGInventors: Reinhard Hehl, Alexander Rotthues, Dietmar Juergen Stahl
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Publication number: 20140199586Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for evaporating liquid hydrocarbon compounds or liquids in which at least one hydrocarbon compound is contained and to a use of same. It is the object of the invention to provide an apparatus for evaporating hydrocarbon compounds or liquids in which such compounds are contained, wherein the vapor formed can be provided with a very small pressure difference and in a suitable consistency. A heating apparatus with which a heating can be achieved above the boiling temperature of the respective hydrocarbon compound or of a liquid is present at the apparatus. The hydrocarbon compound or the liquid flows through at least one hollow space which is formed in a body or in a structure and the body or the structure is formed from a ceramic material which is inert for the respective hydrocarbon compound and/or for chemical compounds or chemical elements contained in the liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2012Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: SUEDZUCKER AG MANNHEIM/OCHSENFURTInventors: Manuela Breite, Matthias Jahn, Adrian Goldberg
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Publication number: 20120079620Abstract: A promoter with an organ-specific activity in plants. The promoter is characterized in that it exhibits greater activity in the storage organs of plants than in other organs of said plants and that the promoter activity is modified after the harvest of the storage organs and is greater than prior to said harvest.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicants: SUEDZUCKER AG, KWS SAAT AGInventors: Reinhard Hehl, Alexander Rotthues, Dietmar Juergen Stahl
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Publication number: 20110239536Abstract: A nucleic acid suitable for reducing the enzymatic activity of an invertase for configuring a sucrose storage organ of a plant, wherein the sucrose concentration is increased relative to the sucrose concentration of an unchanged control sucrose storage organ of the same genotype at a comparable stage of development. The increase in sucrose concentration by X percentage points can thereby lead to a changed or unchanged sucrose storage organ yield, wherein, in the case of a reduction in the sucrose storage organ yield, the reduction is a maximum of 5X percent. The invention further relates to a method for increasing the sucrose yield in agricultural production of sugar beet or sugar cane plants, wherein sugar beet or sugar cane plants are used, the genetic makeup thereof being set up for reducing the enzymatic activity of an invertase.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2009Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicants: KWS SAAT AG, SUEDZUCKER AG MANNHEIM/OCHSENFURTInventors: Karsten Harms, Britta Schulz
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Publication number: 20110041212Abstract: The invention relates to a promoter with an organ-specific activity in plants. Said promoter is characterised in that it exhibits greater activity in the storage organs of plants than in other organs of said plants and that the promoter activity is modified after the harvest of the storage organs and is greater than prior to said harvest.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2005Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicants: KWS SAAT AG, SUEDZUCKER AGInventors: Reinhard Hehl, Alexander Rotthues, Dietmar Juergen Stahl
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Patent number: 7763774Abstract: The invention relates to a promoter that is provided with tissue-specific activity and is more active in xylem parenchyma cells of plant roots than it is in other cells of said plant. The inventive promoter allows transgenic plants to be produced with particular characteristics: (a) improved xylem charging and discharging processes in the root; (b) improved nitrogen supply; (c) reduced accumulation of harmful nitrogen in the root; (d) improved resistance to salt; (e) improved resistance to stress due to dry conditions; (f) improved tolerance to frost; (g) modified Na+/K+ concentration in the root; (h) greater resistance/tolerance to pathogens.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2005Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignees: KWS SAAT AG, Suedzucker AGInventors: Reinhard Hehl, Heiko Oltmanns, Dietmar Juergen Stahl
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Patent number: 7691324Abstract: In a reaction chamber, which constitutes a component of a process installation for obtaining foodstuffs or foodstuff components, biological products in harvested form that are whole or in pieces are subjected to pulsed electric fields as they pass through said reaction chamber, said electric fields forming pores in the cell walls so as to irreversibly open the latter, thus making the content of the cells more easily accessible. This is achieved by electrode groups, which can be energized to a high voltage and are located in the wall of a longitudinal passage of the reactor through which the process material is moved past grounded electrodes located in an opposing longitudinal wall area. Each electrode group is connected to an electric energy accumulator such as for example, a Marx generator, by means of a switch, in order to rapidly establish electric fields of multiple directions between the charged and the grounded electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2004Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignees: Südzucker AG, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbHInventor: Christoph Schultheiss
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Patent number: 6936109Abstract: A method produces starch or starch-containing products from starch-containing plant raw materials. The method is distinguished by the inclusion of an electric pulse method.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2003Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Suedzucker AG Mannheim/OchsenfurtInventors: Dietmar Grüll, Robert Wittenberger, Michel Marnik Wastyn
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Patent number: 6720019Abstract: A method of intensifying the pulpy or gritty texture of pulpy or gritty liquid to pasty foodstuffs by adding amylopectin potato starch, i.e. potato starch having an amylopectin content of at least 95%, preferably at least 98%. In this manner, an organoleptic improvement is achieved as compared to conventional potato starch as well as compared to waxy maize starch.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2001Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: Suedzucker AGInventors: Ondrej Mikla, Dietmar Grüll
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Patent number: 6582753Abstract: A process and product is taught for producing vitreous molten mass from sweeteners by means of an extruder, in particular a double screw extruder. The sweetener is introduced into an inlet zone of the extruder, is extruded in a melting zone at an increased temperature, in a vacuum zone at a reduced pressure and increased temperature, and finally in a cooling zone at a reduced temperature, forming a vitreous molten mass.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2001Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Südzucker AGInventors: Ingrid Willibald-Ettle, Ondrej Mikla