What Sponsorship will do for you?

PLATINUM SPONSOR

LarssonSweden was founded in 1948 and is today a leading manufacturer of process equipment for the starch industry. LarssonSweden has built up a substantial bank of expertise that covers the entire starch process in different adaptations for several starch sources. LarssonSweden patents and LarssonSweden machines, equipment and expertise have opened the doors to an expansive export all over the world. Its manufacturing plant is located together with its head office in Bromölla in southern Sweden. LarssonSweden has since august 2007 a trading company, located in Guangzhou, since 2009 a Rep. Office in Belarus, located in Minsk and since 2015, a trading company in Brazil, located in Curitiba, Parana. Through a network of specialized sub-contractors and partners in different areas, LarssonSweden offers efficient solutions and extensive delivery capacity. LarssonSweden is an independent company, wholly-owned by the Larsson family.

ASSOCIATE SPONSOR

Founded on February 28, 1993, Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) is one of the four futures exchanges under the supervision and administration of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), and also the only futures exchange in Northeast China. Currently DCE has listed a total of 16 futures products, including corn, corn starch, No.1 soybean (non-GMO), No.2 soybean (GMO), soybean meal, soybean oil, RBD palm olein, egg, blockboard, fiberboard, linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polypropylene (PP), metallurgical coke, coking coal and iron ore, covering sectors of grain, oil and oil seeds, livestock, animal feed, forestry, chemical, energy, and metals. In 2015, DCE’s trading volume and turnover were 1.116 billion contracts and RMB 41.94 trillion, respectively. According to Futures Industry Association (FIA), DCE was the 8^th largest exchange in the world by trading volume in 2015.

COFFEE BREAK RECEPTION SPONSOR

Over a period of more than 40 years Hovex proved to be a very competent and reliable partner for a large group of customers on all continents. We are particularly proud of our good name and reputation in the global starch market.

Hovex is part of The Netherlands Environmental Technology Group (NETG). A group of technical companies offering a broad range of high quality, sustainable and cost-effective solutions worldwide, aimed at air and water purification, bio-energy, renewable resources, etc. Technologies that are complementary to the Hovex portfolio, offering beneficial synergistic effects for Hovex, its customers and other business partners!

Hovex is successfully cooperating with the GEA Group AG. This partnership focusses on the global market of native and modified starches, sweeteners, proteins and other related products of mainly potato, cassava, maize, wheat, peas and rice.

Technology and application specialists cooperate to provide our customers with the best solutions, for example with efficiency improvement, water and energy saving, process and product hygiene, sustainability and environmental friendliness, process automation, etc.