Patents Assigned to Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft
  • Patent number: 9677144
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved method for the purification of crude sugar beet juice. The present invention relates moreover to methods for the manufacture of non-sucrose substance combinations from crude sugar beet juice, as well as two devices for the purification of crude sugar beet juice. The measures according to the invention allow a reduction of lime consumption during the purification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Mohsen Ajdari Rad, Stefan Frenzel, Azar Shahidizenouz
  • Publication number: 20150132462
    Abstract: The invention provides an improved antioxidant for food, animal feed, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, as well as compositions that contain this antioxidant as preferably the only additive having an antioxidative effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Joerg Kowalczyk, Stephan Hausmanns, Tillmann Doerr
  • Patent number: 8893612
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for extract purification of sugar beet raw juice, especially for reduction of lime consumption during the purification of sugar beet raw juice, to a process for producing a nutrient-rich non-sucrose concentrate from sugar beet raw juice, to the non-sucrose substance concentrate thus produced, to uses of the non-sucrose substance concentrate and to an apparatus for preliming sugar beet raw juice and/or for obtaining the non-sucrose substance concentrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eric Deneus, Gunter Merkel, Thomas Michelberger, Mohsen Ajdari Rad, Marc Willems
  • Patent number: 8778425
    Abstract: The invention relates to a chewing gum coated with at least one layer, the layer comprising slightly water-soluble calcium salt and/or a composite thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim
    Inventors: Gallus Schechner, Carola Braunbarth, Tilo Poth, Holger Franke, Lutz Guderjahn, Jörg Kowalczyk
  • Patent number: 8691306
    Abstract: A process and an installation for the improved extraction and subsequent recovery of contents from sugar beets (Beta vulgaris) or from sugar beet cossettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Jochen Arnold, Stefan Frenzel, Thomas Michelberger, Peter Scherer, Timo Scheuer, Matthias Weibel
  • Patent number: 8691304
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cereal products comprising cereals and isomaltulose, methods for their production, and the use of isomaltulose for the production of cereal products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Bodo Fritzsching, Jorg Kowalczyk
  • Patent number: 8679799
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and means for the bioengineered fermentative production of solvents, in particular of butanol, acetone and ethanol, and of short-chained carboxylic acids such as acetic acid and butyric acid, in particular in host cells of the species Clostridium. The invention provides new methods and means for regulating the expression of the enzyme activities involved in acid production and or solvent production of the host cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Wolfgang Wach, Karsten Harms, Michael Klingeberg, Peter Duerre, Niklas Nold, Bettina Schiel
  • Publication number: 20140017346
    Abstract: Disclosed is a gelatin-free soft caramel including a soft caramel base mass that contains at least one polysaccharide hydrocolloid as texturing agent, a crystalline sweetener phase formed by isomaltulose, and a noncrystalline sweetener phase, wherein the caramel is gelatin-free. It can be made by providing a noncrystalline sweetener phase by dissolving at least one soluble sweetener in water, adding polysaccharide hydrocolloid, fat component, emulsifier and a part of the total amount of the isomaltulose to the noncrystalline sweetener phase, steam heating the mixture to a temperature of at least 100° C., adding the remaining isomaltulose to the heated mixture while stirring, incorporating air into the mixture and cooling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Jorg Bernard, Kowalczyk Jorg
  • Publication number: 20130309370
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a fondant containing at least one sweetness enhancer, isomaltulose, preferably isomaltulose and trehalose, in the form of a crystalline phase and glucose in the form of a non-crystalline phase, a method for preparing same, the use of the fondant as a coating for baked goods and baked goods that are coated completely or partly with the fondant according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Thomas Walter, Stephan Marhöfer, Tillmann Dörr
  • Patent number: 8568812
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved method of drying the extracted beet chips and means and equipment for carrying out the method, with emphasis especially on the reduction of the emission of organic carbon compounds during the chip drying stage and on the reduction of the primary energy consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Mohsen Ajdari Rad, Stefan Frenzel, Azar Shahidizenouz
  • Patent number: 8512777
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cereal products comprising cereals and isomaltulose, methods for their production, and the use of isomaltulose for the production of cereal products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Bodo Fritzsching, Jorg Kowalczyk
  • Publication number: 20130056002
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved method for the purification of crude sugar beet juice. The present invention relates moreover to methods for the manufacture of non-sucrose substance combinations from crude sugar beet juice, as well as two devices for the purification of crude sugar beet juice. The measures according to the invention allow a reduction of lime consumption during the purification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventor: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenf
  • Patent number: 8328948
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved method for the purification of crude sugar beet juice. The present invention relates moreover to methods for the manufacture of non-sucrose substance combinations from crude sugar beet juice, as well as two devices for the purification of crude sugar beet juice. The measures according to the invention allow a reduction of lime consumption during the purification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Mohsen Ajdari Rad, Stefan Frenzel, Azar Shahidizenouz
  • Patent number: 8282976
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cocoa-containing powders with an isomaltulose fraction, in particular for producing instant ready-made beverages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Tillmann Dörr, Lutz Guderjahn, Jörg Kowalczyk
  • Patent number: 8163091
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved method for isolating ingredients from biological material, in particular from sugar beet (Beta vulgaris).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim
    Inventors: Stefan Frenzel, Thomas Michelberger, Günter Witte
  • Patent number: 8157917
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for extracting and subsequently isolating components from biological material, in particular sugar beets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Jochen Arnold, Stefan Frenzel, Thomas Michelberger
  • Patent number: 8084070
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cereal products comprising cereals and a mixture of 1,6-GPS and 1,1-GPM, methods for the production thereof and the use of a mixture comprising 1,6-GPS and 1,1-GPM for producing cereal products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Bodo Fritzsching, Jörg Kowalczyk
  • Patent number: 8080585
    Abstract: The invention concerns a crystalline isomaltulose product having improved flow properties as bulk product and no tendency toward long-time compaction, method for production of this product as well as a new use of isomaltulose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim-Ochsenfurt
    Inventors: Jörg Kowalczyk, Jörg Bernard, Tillmann Dörr
  • Patent number: 7982031
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the selective oxidation of a carbohydrate in the presence of a gold catalyst which includes nanodispersed gold particles on a metal oxide support, to a method for the selective oxidation of an oligosaccharide in the presence of a gold catalyst which comprises nanodispersed gold particles on a carbon or metal oxide support, and to the aldonic acid oxidation products prepared by use of these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jörg Kowalczyk, Alireza Haji Begli, Ulf Prüsse, Heinz Berndt, Irene Pitsch
  • Patent number: 7955635
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for extract purification of sugar beet raw juice, especially for reduction of lime consumption during the purification of sugar beet raw juice, to a process for producing a nutrient-rich non-sucrose concentrate from sugar beet raw juice, to the non-sucrose substance concentrate thus produced, to uses of the non-sucrose substance concentrate and to an apparatus for preliming sugar beet raw juice and/or for obtaining the non-sucrose substance concentrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Sudzucker Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eric Deneus, Gunter Merkel, Thomas Michelberger, Mohsen Ajdari Rad, Marc Willems