masterclass in bio-energy efficiency The Bunge Group

Masterclass in bio-energy efficiency

The Bunge Group continues to set global standards for the manufacture and distribution of cooking oils and bio-energy health products. Philip Yorke reports on a company that is seeing strong growth thanks to its health-focused products and expanding product portfolio.

Founded in the Netherlands, over 200 years ago, the Bunge Group has been supplying world markets with agricultural commodities, such as grains and oilseeds and bio-energy products ever since. The company produces and transports crops and edible oils and connects farmers to customers in ways that helps to ensure food security and environmental efficiency. Bunge provides ingredients and know-how to many of the biggest food processors and foodservice brands in the world. Primarily, it produces high-quality consumer agriproducts to its customers in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Today’s oils are healthy, indispensable cooking ingredients that shape taste, nutrition and the culinary experience of millions. Bunge helps to meet the needs of a hungry and fast-growing world every day through its winning portfolio of edible oil products that bring flavour, health and versatility, to its unrivalled nutritional benefits.

World leaders in premium lecithins

Bunge produces oil-based ingredients and products that meet today’s evolving and diverse dietary needs. It delivers high-quality sustainable foods to chefs and consumers to suit their individual tastes and preferences in every corner of the world.

The Bunge Group supplies food manufacturers, bakeries, restaurants and food service operators with packaged oilseed oils, margarines and shortenings. The company also provides innovative customised solutions that enable its retail customers to deliver the desired tastes, textures and functional attributes that match their changing product requirements.

In Brazil, Europe and Asia, many of Bunge’s branded consumer bottled and packaged oil products are household names and the mainstays of countless family kitchens. The company also fortifies many of its consumer products with vitamins A and D, as well as DHA to enhance their nutritional properties. It also uses innovative packaging, special labelling and enticing new flavours in line with today’s culinary and consumption trends.

Bunge also has a growing specialties business. It is the world’s leading producer of lecithin. This oilseed-processing by-product is essential in making chocolate, baked goods, instant mixes and nutritional supple-

ments. BungeMaxx, is the company’s first global specialty brand and provides highly customised premium lecithins to its customers worldwide.

meeting the demands of a hungry world

The three most important crops in the world today are grains: maize, wheat and rice. They are also the backbone of Bunge’s agri-business activities. As the global market continues to grow, particularly in developing countries, there is a widening gap between where crops are produced and where they are consumed. Complex geopolitics, extreme climate conditions and economic uncertainty mean that trade in basic foodstuffs has never been more complex or more important.

However, this geo-complexity also provides a big opportunity globally for the Bunge Group, which is well placed to meet the growing need. With its integrated value-chain, the company can make the right connections, linking farmers large and small to the global marketplace, and deliver high-quality commodity products to its end-customers throughout the world.

Today the Bunge Group’s global network of facilities, includes grain elevators and port terminals, and together they cover the world’s largest agricultural production regions and the areas of fastest growing food consumption demand. These strategic locations are also designed to be close to major transportation systems and hubs and Bunge supports these physical assets with marketing units, trading offices and joint venture operations across six continents.

HF Press+LipidTech

HF has been a reliable partner for several Bunge projects worldwide during the past almost 40 years.

HF is the world market leader for screw presses (formerly known as KRuPPpresses, a synonym for high performance and high quality equipment), but also considered and worldwide acknowledged as competent technology provider in other fields of oilseed processing, for crude oil refining and animal waste processing (rendering). HF`s business relationship with Bunge`s martfü plant began many years ago with the supply of numerous components for all different plant sections. Bunge operates more than 40 HF screw presses in various locations. Besides delivering and engineering new equipment HF and Bunge have a strong partnership regarding the service of wear parts, order on demand solutions and providing technical service to improve everyday performance.

We are looking forward to serve our customer Bunge in the future. Focus on bioenergy

It is well established that oilseed oils are among the richest dietary sources of omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fats. With its clear commitment to healthier diets, the Bunge Group recently launched BungeMaxx™ sunflower lecithin, a Non-GMO Project- Verified ingredient.

Lecithin is a natural emulsifier and an important ingredient in a broad range of consumer products, including chocolate, baked goods, instant mixes and nutritional supplements. Every step of the supply chain is managed by the Bunge team, starting with the

sourcing of its sunflower seeds to their final distribution in Europe and the U.S. The Bunge Group is also the foremost producer of sugar and ethanol in Brazil and is a leading trader and merchandiser of sugar worldwide.

Brazil is the world’s largest sugarcane producer and exporter. The company’s eight sugarcane mills in Brazil have a combined capacity of over 20 million metric tonnes. They produce both sugar and ethanol and Bunge is able to adjust its production mix depending on market conditions. They are also equipped via cogeneration to produce renewable electricity that is sold to the Brazilian power grid.

The Bunge Group produces two types of sugar: raw sugar that is similar to the sugar traded on major commodities exchanges and sold almost exclusively for export, and non-refined white crystal sugar that is sold mainly to Brazil.

For further details on the Bunge Group’s latest innovative products and services visit: www.bunge.com