Company Profile | December 1, 1999

Cerestar USA, Inc.

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Eridania Béghin-Say is one of the leading companies in the processing of agricultural raw materials into basic food products such as sugar, starch and derivatives of starch, oils, vegetable proteins and lecithin, consumer products and animal feed.

Cerestar, a company of Eridania Béghin-Say, with both integrated and speciality plants, is the largest European manufacturer of starches and starch derivatives. Its activities are controlled from Paris, France, while sales offices and production facilities are located throughout the world.

Cerestar products extend from regular and modified starches for food, pharmaceutical and industrial applications through glucose and high fructose syrups to maltodextrins and spray-dried glucose syrups, dextrose, sorbitol, mannitol, maltitol, xylitol, erythritol, cyclodextrins, caramel, citric acid and sodium citrate, wheat gluten, maize oil and animal feed ingredients.