Leading European producer of bioethanol

The CropEnergies Group is one of the leading European producers of bioethanol for the fuel sector. "Crop" stands for "creative regeneration of power"; so for a new type of energy source. We generate this energy from renewable raw materials - cereals and sugar beet - in the form of bioethanol, which can be used as a fuel for motor vehicles.

With subsidiaries in Germany, Belgium, and France, the CropEnergies Group has succeeded within just a few years in establishing itself as a bioethanol producer in a growing market, and operates Europe's largest bioethanol-producing plant at Zeitz, in Saxony-Anhalt.

The company is growing along with the increasing energy demand from industry and private households. In the future this demand will have to be satisfied to an ever-greater extent by renewable energy sources due to the limited supplies of fossil fuels and the necessity of reducing emissions of climate-damaging greenhouse gases. In the fuel sector, bioethanol fulfils these requirements and therefore is being talked of as the fuel of the future. Bioethanol has already established itself as the world's number 1 biofuel.

We are now at the start of a new energy era. CropEnergies is one of the leaders in the bioethanol market not only in Germany, but on a European level. Embedded in the Südzucker Group, the largest sugar producer in Europe, the CropEnergies AG combines the dynamics and growth potential of an ambitious company with the strength and innovation power of a successful, internationally-active group.

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