In the 2009|10 financial year, the focus of Sugar research activities was on the industrial processing of sugar beet that has been stored for longer periods and the impact of the extended storage time on the throughput of the sugar factories. A project supported by Austria’s Research Promotion Agency (Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft) investigated beet juice purification and generated recommendations to achieve better filterability of the juices. AGRANA was awarded a new patent for the use of natural antibacterials as silage additives (to suppress undesirable kinds of fermentation in silage).
