€ 10.8 million (prior year: € 23.8 million) was invested in the Starch segment during the 2009|10 financial year. This paid for process optimisation and energy efficiency improvements (for example, in the form of waste heat recovery systems at the Austrian starch plants and the switch in Romania to natural gas as the primary energy source). At the Hungarian plant, after completing the expansion of production capacity for isoglucose, the co-products area (corn gluten meal and corn gluten feed) was optimised.
