Sugar and starch

Sugars and starches are integral to the manufacture of countless food items, including cookies, chocolate bars, confectionery, sauces, soft drinks, ice cream, fruit syrups, jellies, baked goods, yogurt, and baby food. Our high-performance SIGMA plate heat exchangers, SIGMATHERM plate pasteurizers, and SIGMASTAR and SIGMAVAP plate evaporators continue to play a vital role in this important aspect of the food industry.

Typical applications in the sugar industry:

• Heat recovery from molasses and mash
• Heating and cooling of syrup and molasses
• Heating, concentrating and cooling of sugar juice and sugar derivatives
• Multi-stage concentration systems for cane and beet sugar, invert sugar and Palatinit (a sugar substitute for diabetics)
• Multi-stage concentration systems for fructose and insulin solutions
• Preheating and pasteurizing of diluted juices

Typical applications in the starch industry:

• Condensation of flash steam
• Heating and cooling of corn steep water and wheat starch – wastewater
• Heating and cooling of starch solutions
• High concentration of fructose, starch, washing and cooking water for potatoes, rice and wheat
• Multi-stage evaporation systems for glucose, dextrose, maltose and sorbitol
• Pre-cooling and freezing of syrups and concentrates
• Overheating of scarified starch solutions to inactivate enzymes