Cargill Starches & Sweeteners South America
Cargill Starches & Sweeteners S.A. produces a variety of starches, sweeteners, syrups, dextrins, high maltose and maltodextrin products from corn and tapioca for use in the food, paper, corrugated board and mining industries in Brazil, Central and South America and South Africa.
Products from the corn wet milling process (corn gluten fiber and meal) and from other processes (soy feed and flour residues) are marketed to local feed companies. We produce citric acid and sodium citrate from sugar cane or corn dextrose for use in beverage, food and industrial applications. We also produce and dry special whey products for food application.
Our facilities include a corn wet milling and corn starch/corn syrup modification, and citric acid and sodium citrate production facility (Uberlândia, Minas Gerais state) a tapioca processing, tapioca starch modification and waxy corn wet milling facility (São Miguel do Iguaçu, Parana state), a corn wet milling facility in Vila Mercedes, and a maltodextrin and whey spray dried products plant (Porto Ferreira, São Paulo state).
We also have an applications development center in Mairinque, and a distribution center in São Bernardo do Campo, (both located in São Paulo state) which serve other Cargill partners.
We operate Glucovil Argentina, a 30 percent owned joint venture with Ledesma.
Cargill offers a wide variety of starch and sweetener ingredients and solutions
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