Cosun Beet Company
- Type
- Food & Ingredient Manufacturer
- Location
- Dinteloord, Netherlands
- Industries
- Food ingredients & products, Bio-energy & biomaterials, Waste efficiency, Animal feed
- Domains
- Plant based primary products, Ingredients, Protein concentrates, Protein isolates, Proteins, Potatoes, Beet, Sugar beet
- Technologies
- Biorefining, Biotechnology & sustainable inputs, Fermentation, Extraction, Processing
About Cosun Beet Company
Cosun Beet Company is the beet-processing business of Royal Cosun, a Dutch cooperative rooted in sugar beet cultivation. It works with thousands of growers and around 850 employees to turn sugar beets into sugar and a range of co-products for food, feed, energy and soil improvement.
The company positions itself as one of Europe’s most efficient sugar producers and says its strategy is to maximize the value of the beet while operating as sustainably as possible. Its website emphasizes circularity, innovation and responsible production across the full chain, from cultivation and processing to delivery and logistics.
Core Values
- Sustainability: The company repeatedly states that sustainability is central to its strategy, with a focus on reducing waste, lowering CO₂ emissions and using renewable resources.
- Circularity: Cosun Beet Company aims to use every part of the sugar beet, turning side streams into useful products for food, feed, energy and agriculture.
- Innovation: It invests in product and process innovation, supported by the Cosun Innovation Center and collaboration with customers and partners.
- Quality and responsibility: The company stresses safe, reliable products and responsible chain management from growers through to customers and consumers.
Unique Aspects
- Full-beet utilization model: The company’s core differentiator is its “nothing wasted” approach, in which all components of the sugar beet are valorized into multiple product streams.
- Part of Royal Cosun: Cosun Beet Company sits within Royal Cosun, a cooperative of more than 8,000 growers, giving it a strong agricultural base and access to broader group capabilities.
- Cosun Innovation Center: It uses a dedicated innovation and development center in Dinteloord with laboratories, sensory facilities and a pilot plant to support R&D and customer collaboration.
- Avantium partnership: In 2021, Cosun Beet Company announced plans with Avantium to develop and operate a first commercial plant for plant-based glycols using Avantium’s Ray Technology™.
- International footprint: The company operates sugar facilities in the Netherlands and Germany, including Dinteloord, Vierverlaten, Puttershoek, Roosendaal and Anklam.