Company profile
Sustainable, renewable products from biomass – that’s what CropEnergies stands for. With their products, CropEnergies contributes to a climate-friendly world and ensures that fossil carbons remain in the ground permanently.
Sustainably produced ethanol as a gasoline substitute is an answer to the future challenges of climate-friendly energy supply, especially in the transportation sector. CropEnergies’ alcohol is also used in beverage production, cosmetics, pharmaceutical applications, for example as a basis for disinfectants, or as a starting material for innovative biochemicals. Equally important are the resulting protein food and animal feed products as well as biogenic carbon dioxide, which is used in beverage production, among other things. In this way, all raw material components are utilised.
CropEnergies AG, Mannheim, is building a plant to produce renewable ethyl acetate from sustainable ethanol. The new production plant will be the first of its kind in Europe. The planned location is the Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park in Elsteraue, Germany. It will produce 50,000 tons of renewable ethyl acetate per year. Ethyl acetate is widely used in the production of flexible packaging and coatings, paints and adhesives as well as in the food, beverage, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Currently, ethyl acetate is mainly produced from fossil raw materials. The ground-breaking ceremony took place in April 2024, with commissioning planned for the end of 2025.
The new business area of biobased chemicals is also in line with this: The planned production process is almost 100% carbon neutral while delivering ethyl acetate of the highest quality. The product offers customers an excellent opportunity to grow with the sustainability trend by significantly reducing their carbon footprint through the use of CropEnergies’ ethyl acetate.
Cropenergies AG is planning further renewable molecules for the chemical industry in the future. CropEnergies stands for greenhouse gas savings at all product and production levels.