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Roquette is a French based family owned company which produces more than 650 by-products from the starch extracted from corn, wheat, potatoes and peas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Roquette Frères, Lestrem, France )〕 Founded and headquartered in Lestrem, France in 1933 by the brothers Dominique and Germain Roquette, Roquette has grow to become the leader in starch production in Europe and the number four ranked producer of starch worldwide.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Roquette Frères )〕 It is also the leader in the production of Polyols worldwide (substances derived from food compounds). Roquette employs more than 6,600 people globally and achieved a turnover of over 2,5 billion euros in 2011.〔〔 ==History== At the beginning of the Great Depression in 1933 grain brokers Dominique and Germain Roquette along with the aid of ICAM engineer Adam Grunewald created a potato starch plant named Roquette in Lestrem. From this point on Roquette has grown to 30 establishments. Below is a list〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Roquette Corporate - History )〕 of the firm's major development stages since its beginning. *1933 - Dominique and Germain Roquette start the first Roquette potato starch plant in Lestrem, France *1946 - Construction of the corn starch plant in Lestrem, France *1954 - Lestrem facility begins industrial production of sorbitol *1956 - Construction of the potato starch plant in Vecquemont, France *1961 - Construction of the corn starch plant in Cassano Spinola, Italy *1977 - Construction of the corn starch plant in Beinheim, France *1982 - Construction of the sorbitol production unit in Gurnee, Illinois, United States *1986 - Construction of the wheat starch plant at Lestrem, France facility *1991 - Take-over of a corn starch plant in Keokuk, Iowa, United States *1993 - Lestrem facility launches the start of maltitol production *1997 - Take-over of the corn starch plant in Calafat, Romania *1998 - Construction of the wheat starch plant in Beinheim, France *2000 - Take-over of the wheat starch plant in Corby, England *2001 - Take-over of two sorbitol production units in Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China and Ulsan, Korea *2008 - Take-over of the B.P.S. (Bioprodukte Steinberg), production of microalgae in Klotze, Germany 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roquette Frères」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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