Tulln sugar factory

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Sugar factory Tulln (January 2010)
Sugar factory Tulln (December 2013)

The Tulln sugar factory in Tulln on the Danube ( Lower Austria ) is one of two Austrian sugar factories that still exist . The factory is operated by the Agrana company . The administration of AGRANA Zucker GmbH is also located at the Tulln location.
For the storage of the sugar, there are six silos at the Tulln site (see pictures) which have a total storage capacity of 180,000 tons of granulated sugar. (A silo that was put into operation in 2011 has a capacity of 70,000 tons of granulated sugar; with a total height of 52 meters and an internal diameter of 49 meters, this silo is the second largest sugar silo in Europe).
In 2011, sugar production was around 2,300 tons per day, the amount of processed sugar beet was around 12,500 tons per day.
The amount of sugar produced was over 300,000 tons for the first time in 2011/2012 (in comparison: in the 2010/2011 financial year the production amount was around 260,000 tons). The company has around 320 employees (during the so-called beet campaign , the number of employees increases to around 380).

history

Tulln Sugar Museum as the center of a roundabout
View from the Treetop Path of the Tulln Garden

From around 1934 there were considerations to build a cooperative sugar factory as an alternative to industrial beet processing. The realization of this project was delayed by a record beet harvest in 1934, which resulted in a 20 percent reduction in the area under cultivation.

Since the already existing sugar factories in

However, since the Leipnik-Lundenburger Zuckerfabriken Aktiengesellschaft resigned its concession in favor of the new location, the Niederösterreichische Zuckerfabriks Aktiengesellschaft was able to participate in November 1936

The preparatory work for the construction of the Tullner sugar factory in the south-west of the city began in 1937 with the construction of a towing system for the transport of materials. In the same year, the shell of the factory building and the administration building were completed. Waagner Biro built the load-bearing iron structure of the machine hall by the spring of 1938 , so that in April 1938 the installation of the machine equipment could begin according to plans by the Paukerwerke and the First Brno Machine Factory .

The corporate concept of the Tullner sugar factory, which went into operation on October 26, 1938, primarily provided for the production of raw sugar . The founding companies transferred around 60,000 tons of sugar beet to the new production site at the expense of their own allotments. The raw sugar produced was given to the sugar factories for refining and processing into white sugar.

New economic requirements introduced the production of stored sugar and animal feed and tied the sugar factories to a certain catchment area, which put a financial burden on the sugar manufacturers.

In December 1938, the Landwirtschaftliche Zucker-Aktiengesellschaft took over the Tullner sugar factory. The Hohenau sugar factory followed in April 1939.

The Tullner Zuckerfabrik Aktiengesellschaft , founded in 1945, had to reactivate both the sugar factory itself and beet cultivation. Due to the conversion from raw to consumer sugar production, the first sugar magazine was built in 1948 and the production hall was expanded. At the beginning of the 1950s, it opened its own refinery for white sugar, expanded the boiler house, expanded the sugar mill and set up a production facility for sugar cubes.

In 1977 the sugar factories in Leopoldsdorf, Dürnkrut, Hohenau, Enns and Tulln were merged to form Sugana Zucker GmbH .

In 1978 the Tulln sugar factory acquired 50 percent of the Bruck sugar factory. As a result, the administration was moved to Vienna. The cooperation between the two sugar factories finally resulted in the merger in 1983.

Agrana Research & Innovation Center

In the Tulln sugar factory there is the so-called central sugar magazine with a high-bay warehouse that has a capacity of around 8,000 tons of sugar. All types of household sugar available in Austrian retailers are also produced, packaged and temporarily stored here until delivery.

Agrana Research & Innovation Center

The Agrana Research & Innovation Center , the research center of the Agrana Group, is also located on the area of ​​the Tulln sugar factory . Their main task is the development of environmentally friendly and energy-saving methods of sugar production. The Agrana Research & Innovation Center GmbH is an independent company, but which is 100% owned by AGRANA.

literature

  • Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial heritage of Lower Austria. History-technology-architecture. Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77460-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AGRANA opens new sugar silo ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiener-zucker.at
  2. ↑ a b AGRANA Zuckerfabrik Tulln celebrated its 75th anniversary ( memento of the original from April 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release dated June 14, 2012, accessed April 14, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.agrana.com
  3. ↑ Agrana Research & Innovation Center in Tulln was officially opened . Press release of September 10, 2014, accessed April 14, 2015.

Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 34 ″  N , 16 ° 2 ′ 21 ″  E