De Dietrich bolsters its plant

based chemistry operations.

According to a study by McKinsey & Company, the biobased products market is expected to grow from $27.6 billion in 2010 to $51.1 billion in 2020. France's Association for Plant-Based Chemistry (ACDV) recently reiterated the French chemical industry's goal to double the volume of plant-based raw materials produced in France by 2020. Similar goals are being set in many other countries. De Dietrich Process Systems (DDPS) is a firm believer in the strong growth potential of plant-based chemistry, a linchpin of a sustainable and environmentally friendly economy. Although DDPS is already present among key players in the sector, creating a dedicated organisation within the group reflects its commitment to help its customers to go even further in developing efficient and innovative biobased products.

Drawing on 333 years of technical and engineering expertise and a global presence, DDPS provides companies in the food, healthcare, cosmetics, and biomaterials industries with a complete range of customised turnkey solutions for extracting and purifying natural ingredients from biomass. These solutions are particularly used in the production of natural flavors, pigments, flavour enhancers, refined essential oils, botanical extracts, and texturisers.

The technologies used in the processes implemented by DDPS include in particular solid-liquid and liquid-liquid extraction, vacuum evaporation and concentration, fractional distillation, filtration, drying, hydrodistillation, and molecular distillation. DDPS' simulation and testing tools facilitate the definition and optimisation of operating parameters during the pre-project phase. Its internal production and integration resources make it possible to bring industrial projects of any scale to successful completion.

DDPS has opened a sales office in Grasse, France, and will draw on its engineering units in Europe (Barcelona, Spain, Zinswiller, France; Mainz, Germany), the USA (Charlotte, North Carolina), and Asia (Wuxi, China; Rabale, India; Singapore).

Its ambitious commitment is successfully illustrated by its recent partnership with SAS PIVERT (www.sas-pivert.com), a French company based in Compiègne for which DDPS has developed a pilot plant for processing oilseed biomass. This pilot plant consists of a pressurised reaction unit, a continuous vacuum distillation tower, a condensation-settling-storage unit, and associated peripheral equipment (vacuum skid unit, thermal skid unit, transfer pumps, support structure, etc.). The entire plant is supplemented with a vacuum drying skid (pan dryer) with automatic transfer of solids.

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