Bluthsluster Strasse 24
DE-17389
Anklam
Phone: +49 3 971 2540
E-mail:anklam.sugar@danisco.com
Contact
Ingo Kuchenbrandt, Managing DirectorThe site
Danisco Sugar Anklam produces high-quality sugar to satisfy demands from the food industry. The sugar beets are supplied by approximately 500 beet growers and are conveyed to the site by contracted haulage companies. Around 600 truckloads of beet are delivered to Anklam from Monday to Friday, equal to almost 950,000 tonnes of sugar beet being turned into sugar during the campaign. We produce feed products from the beet fibres remaining once the sugar has been extracted.Danisco's entire annual sugar production is achieved during a three-month period, called the campaign, extending over some 100 days from end-September to end-December when the facility operates around the clock, seven days a week. The facility has a daily processing capacity of 11,000 tonnes of beet.
The site produces annually (approximately):
- 136,000 tonnes of sugar (2007/08)
Feed products: - 20,000 tonnes of molasses (2007/08)
- 6000 tonnes of unmolassed sugar beet pellets (2007/08)
- 13,500 tonnes of molassed sugar beet pellets (2007/08)
- 26,000 tonnes of pressed beet pulp (2007/08)
70% of the sugar is turned directly into granulated sugar while the remainder is stored as thick juice, which is processed during about six weeks in March/April.
The site employs around 135 people but is expanded by a contingent labour force of 20 people during the beet campaign.
The majority of our employees work in production e.g. as machine operators, process operators, service engineers (within electrical maintenance or automation) and in the laboratory. Approximately 25 employees work in administration, including technical engineers, beet supply and sales personnel. Further reading about the Sugar division.
Between the campaigns
Once the campaign is over, the production equipment is overhauled. The maintenance and new installations required after the campaign keep the permanent staff not engaged in the packing and handling of sugar and feed products busy for the rest of the year. This is also the time of the year when the staff receive further training.
History
Danisco Sugar Anklam was founded in 1883. The factory produced 950 tonnes of raw sugar from 10,157 tonnes of sugar beet during its first campaign. Matching neither the demand for sugar nor the amount of beets grown, capacity was expanded on a couple of occasions.Anklam was heavily bombed during the Second World War. The factory was rebuilt and in 1946, the same year as it was nationalised, it had capacity for processing 33,433 tonnes of beet into raw sugar.
In 1948 the factory was converted into a granulated sugar factory. Further on, in 1991, the year before privatisation, the factory had capacity for receiving 2,700 tonnes of beet a day compared with 10,500 tonnes today.
Local community & environment
Anklam is situated in Northeastern Germany and is the county town of Ostvorpommern. Anklam has approximately 15,000 inhabitants. Danisco is one of the biggest employers in Anklam and good relations with the local community are essential to us.We are in continuous dialogue with local stakeholders with regard to issues of common interest. This includes communicating with the local politicians and committees on environmental and technical matters. It also involves interaction with the local residents, for example by inviting the nearby villages to visit and experience the site from the inside which we do every year.
Being a major sugar producing facility there is widespread interest in visiting us and studying our production process.
During the campaign we have about 2,500 visitors coming from a range of areas e.g. schools, universities, beet growers, residents and politicians. If you are interested in visiting Anklam please send a request via e-mail or give us a call. Our visiting time is normally from October to mid-December.
Anklam offers
Child care and education
Anklam offers six child-care facilities with regular opening hours from 6.00 am to 6.00 pm. Anklam has primary/secondary schools and a high school.
Leisure and culture
The town provides sports facilities for sports associations and residents of the town. Anklam is located close to the beautiful island of Usedom with attractive sand beaches that became popular already in the 1920s as "the bathtub for the society of Berlin".
There are several museums, among them the Otto Lilienthal Museum established in honour of the great flight pioneer, who was born in Anklam, and a number of ancient monuments in the region.
Links
Public transport facilites (in German only) moreoverTransports
The Island Usedom
Surrounding area
The Anklam theatre
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