User:Demint1/Roquette

User:Demint1/Roquette

Roquette is a French based family owned company which produces more than 650 by-products from the starch extracted from corn, wheat, potatoes and peas. Founded and headquartered in Lestrem, France Roquette has 30 establishments worldwide including 18 production sites in Europe, Asia and North America. Founded in 1933 by Dominique and Germain Roquette, Roquette has grow to become the number two ranked producer of starch in Europe and the number four ranked producer of starch worldwide. Roquette employs more than 6,000 people globally and achieved a turnover of over 2.5 billion euros in 2008.

History
At the beginning of the Great Depression in 1933 grain brokers Dominique and Germain Roqette along with the aid of ICAM engineer Adam Grunewald created a potato starch plant named Roquette in Lestrem, France. From this point on Roquette has grown to 30 establishments located on three continents worldwide. Below is a list of the firm's major development stages since its beginning in 1933.
 * 1933 Dominique and Germain Roquette start the first Roquette potato starch plant in Lestrem, France
 * 1946 Construction of the corn starch plant in Lestrem, France
 * 1954 Lestrem facility begins industrial production of sorbitol
 * 1956 Construction of the potato starch plant in Vecquemont, France
 * 1961 Construction of the corn starch plant in Cassano Spinola ,Italy
 * 1977 Construction of the corn starch plant in Beinheim, France
 * 1982 Construction of the sorbitol production unit in Gurnee, IL, United States
 * 1986 Construction of the wheat starch plant at Lestrem, France facility
 * 1991 Take-over of a corn starch plant in Keokuk, IA, United States
 * 1993 Lestrem facility launches the start of maltitol production
 * 1997 Take-over of the corn starch plant in Calafat, Romania
 * 1998 Construction of the wheat starch plant in Beinheim, France
 * 2000 Take-over of the wheat starch plant in Corby, England
 * 2001 Take-over of two sorbitol production units in Lianyungang, China and Ulsan, Korea
 * 2008 Take-over of the B.P.S. (Bioprodukte Steinberg), production of microalgae in Klotze, Germany

Locations
Worldwide Roquette has 18 production sites and 12 offices located on three continents, Europe, Asia, and North America. Founded in Europe, Roquette's headquarters is located in Lestrem, France. This central headquarters is the largest Roquette facility in Europeand is home to the companies largest research and development center which employs more than 250 researchers. Along with the Lestrem facility Europe is home to 4 Roqutte offices and 10 other production facilities (6 of which are found in France). Since the eighties, Roquette has been strengthening its international presence with various factories or offices in the United States, China, Korea, Japan, India, Russia and Mexico. The United States is home to 2 production sites found in Keokuk, Iowa and Gurnee, Illinois. Roquette also has 2 Chinese production plants found in Nanning, Guangxi and Lianyungang, Jiangsu. A third Asian production plant is located in Ulsan, Korea.

Products
Roquette is one of Europe's largest and one of the world's most advanced starch and starch-derivatives businesses and world leader in polyols (sugar alcohols) .They produce over 650 products through the extraction of starch from corn, wheat, potatoes and peas. Roquette's products fall into five major product categories; native starches and proteins, physically and chemically modified starches, hydrolyzed and isomerised products, hydrogenated products, and fermentation process derivatives and fine chemicals.