We make biotechnology work.

State-of-the-art technology and customized plants lay the groundwork for our clients' success.

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We complement our client's skills.

Our aim is always to complement our client's know-how, not to duplicate it.

Technical Services

We find solutions that meet our clients' needs.

Customer orientation and constant openness for innovation are the basis of superior technical solutions.

Process Units

VOGELBUSCH Biocommodities - The Bioprocess Company

Professional engineering services and bioprocess technology licensing for the biobased industries on a global basis since 1921.

World class production plants

Vogelbusch is recognized around the world for proprietary process technology for the production of biocommodities such as alcohol, bioethanol, starch sugars, yeast, vinegar and organic acids. We license our technologies and implement process units for all stages of biotechnological production, ranging from raw material preparation and fermentation to downstream processes such as distillation/rectificationevaporation, dehydration and chromatography.

Tailored to suit you

From the initial process design through to the launch of production, we provide engineering support with a variety of service packagesOur wealth of experience in bioprocess design allows us to respond to your individual needs with customized solutions. R&D and analytical work for process adaptations are carried out in our in-house research facilities before they are used to create modern industrial plant designs.

Our clients

are sugar and starch processors, and the food and beverage industries. Reference projects around the world are proof of our professional expertise in the biotechnology industry:

Alcohol Plant in Alejandro Roca
PROMAÍZ - Alejandro Roca, Cordoba, Argentina

The Promaíz plant produces bioethanol from corn which is used as fuel additive in the local markets. Besides the technology package for the complete plant and detailed planning of piping and vessels, Vogelbusch has been assigned with the supply of equipment such as fermenter internals, distillation columns, molecular sieve dehydration and...

Glucose plant for processing compex in Ishim
AMINOSIB - Ishim, Tyumen Region, Russia

ZAO Agroholding «Yubileinii» sets up a wheat processing complex -  AminoSib - in Ishim in the Tyumen Region. Vogelbusch has been assigned by the general contractor, Talmax Engineering s.r.o., with the supply of a glucose plant to produce a fermentation substrate. The order includes the process design as well as the supply of...

Ethanol dehydration in Sarpsborg
BORREGAARD - Sarpsborg, Norway

Borregaard replaced a decades old ethanol dehydration system by a state-of-the-art molecular sieve unit from Vogelbusch. The limited space in the biorefinery recommended a skid construction with minimum footprint. A special feature of the installation is an unusually wide capacity span, which was realized in a fully automated process. The unit has...

DRD for bioethanol plant in Zhaodong
COFCO Bioenergy - Zhaodong, PR China

Vogelbusch was employed by COFCO Bioenergy Zhaodong to build an energy efficient distillation, rectification and dehydration system with the aim to replace two existing old and energy intensive units. The order's scope included the basic engineering of the unit as well as technical assistance during procurement of critical items such as...

D|D Ethanol recovery system in California
ALLTECH - Ontario, California, USA

VOGELBUSCH USA Inc. supplied a system for recovery of ethanol from brewery waste streams. The facility was designed as a PLC-controlled, two-stage process that consists of a two-column distillation, which produces an ethanol/water vapour that is then dried in the molecular sieve unit.  For easy installation, the system was prefabricated in two...

News

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The Alcohol School
2023.03.06

April 16 - 21, 2023 | Vienna, Austria

What our clients say ...

"The plant, which was commissioned in the spring of 2005, is outstanding thanks to its efficient continuous fermentation method coupled with an integrated, optimized energy concept."

Press Release 1.9.2006, Südzucker AG, Bioethanol Plant, Zeitz, Germany

Contact us

VOGELBUSCH Biocommodities GmbH

Blechturmgasse 11
1051 Vienna, Austria

Tel +43 1 54 661-0
Fax +43 1 545 29 79
vienna@vogelbusch.com

VOGELBUSCH USA Inc.

1826 Snake River Road, Suite C
Katy, TX 77449, USA

Tel +1 713 461 7374
Fax +1 713 461 7377
houston@vogelbusch.com
www.vbusa.com

VOGELBUSCH Hong Kong Ltd.

Flat A, 6/F, Beauty Mansion,
69-71 Kimberley Road
Tsimshatsui, Kowloon
Hong Kong, PR China
Tel +852 2314 3030
Fax +852 2314 0369
hongkong@vogelbusch.com