Tereos is a French maker of sugar

Sugar

Sugar is a class of edible crystalline carbohydrates, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose, characterized by a sweet flavor.Sucrose in its refined form primarily comes from sugar cane and sugar beet...

, starch

Starch

Starch or amylum is a carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined together by glycosidic bonds. This polysaccharide is produced by all green plants as an energy store...

 and bioethanol.

Tereos produces sugar based on sugar based sugar beet

Sugar beet

Sugar beet, a cultivated plant of Beta vulgaris, is a plant whose tuber contains a high concentration of sucrose. It is grown commercially for sugar production. Sugar beets and other B...

 and sugar cane. It also engages in the production of fondant sugar.

Subsidiary Syral processes cereals into a range of native starch, starch sugars (glucose syrup

Glucose syrup

Glucose syrup is a food syrup, made from the hydrolysis of starch. Maize is commonly used as the source of the starch in the USA, in which case the syrup is called "corn syrup", but glucose syrup is also made from other starch crops, including potatoes, wheat, barley, rice and cassavap.21...

, maltodextrin

Maltodextrin

Maltodextrin is a polysaccharide that is used as a food additive. It is produced from starch by partial hydrolysis and is usually found as a creamy-white hygroscopic spraydried powder. Maltodextrin is easily digestible, being absorbed as rapidly as glucose, and might be either moderately sweet or...

, dextrose, and polyol

Polyol

A polyol is an alcohol containing multiple hydroxyl groups. In two technological disciplines the term "polyol" has a special meaning: food science and polymer chemistry.- Polyols in food science :...

s from corn

Corn

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 and wheat

Wheat

Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...

 starch), bioethanol and by-products intended for animal feed and the supply of electricity.

Tereos has 35 industrial facilities mainly in France

France

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 and Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

, but also Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

, Réunion

Réunion

Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France...

, Mozambique

Mozambique

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, Spain

Spain

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, Italy

Italy

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, UK and Belgium

Belgium

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 which produce 2.9 million tons of sugar, 1.8 million tons of starch

Starch

Starch or amylum is a carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined together by glycosidic bonds. This polysaccharide is produced by all green plants as an energy store...

 based products (subsidiary Syral) and 1.5 million m3 of alcohol and ethanol.

The company its headquartered in Lille

Lille

Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

.

History

Tereos originates from the company called Sucreries et Distilleries de l’Aisne

Aisne

Aisne is a department in the northern part of France named after the Aisne River.- History :Aisne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Île-de-France, Picardie, and Champagne.Most of the old...

 (SDA).
In 1999 SDA merged with Sucrerie-Distillerie d’Artenay

Artenay

Artenay is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France....

 into Union SDA.

In 2002 sugar company Béghin-Say was taken over by Union SDA and Union des Planteurs de Betteraves à Sucre (Union BS) and merged to Tereos S.A. in January, 2003.

In 2007 the starch sugar and bioethanol part (5 plants) of the European starch division of Tate & Lyle

Tate & Lyle

Tate & Lyle plc is a British-based multinational agribusiness. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index as of 20 June 2011...

 known as Amylum group, was bought by starch subsidiary Syral of Tereos. Syral has since closed the Greenwich

Greenwich

Greenwich is a district of south London, England, located in the London Borough of Greenwich.Greenwich is best known for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time...

 plant.

Tereos Internacional

Tereos Internacional is the main subsidiary of Tereos, created in 2010 as a result of a merger of the Group's assets in Brazil, Europe and Indian Ocean. Tereos Internacional is the third largest sugar processor of the world. The company is based in São Paulo

São Paulo

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

, Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

.

Terios Internacional sells its products to more than 100 countries and will be listed in BM&F Bovespa in São Paulo and in Euronext Paris

Euronext Paris

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, becoming the second Brazilian company listed in Paris Stock Exchange, the other is the mining company Vale.

The biggest competitors of Tereos Internacional are the Brazilians Cosan

Cosan

Cosan is a public company, a Brazilian conglomerate producer of bioethanol, sugar and energy.-Biography:Cosan began in 1936 in Piracicaba city in State of São Paulo, with the founding of its first factory for milling of sugar cane...

 and ETH Bioenergia

ETH Bioenergia

ETH Bioenergia is a Brazil-based bioenergy company and the world biggest ethanol sugar cane company. The company is engaged in marketing ang logistics of ethanol, electricity energy and sugar...

, the French Louis Dreyfus Group

Louis Dreyfus Group

Louis Dreyfus Group is a diversified French private company that is involved in agriculture and energy commodities...

, and the American Archer Daniels Midland

Archer Daniels Midland

The Archer Daniels Midland Company is a conglomerate headquartered in Decatur, Illinois. ADM operates more than 270 plants worldwide, where cereal grains and oilseeds are processed into products used in food, beverage, nutraceutical, industrial and animal feed markets worldwide.ADM was named the...

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