Bio-Products
In 1998, Aventine Renewable Energy, Inc. formed its Bio-Products division to produce and market distiller's yeast and other value-added products. Our mission is to provide our customers a quality product at an economic cost while providing our employees a rewarding career and our investors a profitable and satisfactory return for their capital employed.
The company operates its Pekin, IL wet mill 365 days a year to extract value-added products from Aventine's corn wet milling and fermentation process. Our distiller's yeasts are Kosher and Chametz-free certified.
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The company's Pekin, IL wet mill operates a continuous beer fermentation process, producing more than two million gallons of beer per day. This process uses a corn starch media and distiller's yeast of the saccharomyces cerviseae classification. Our plant microbiologists closely monitor the fermentation process to ensure clean, healthy fermentation without the use of antibiotics. The beer and distiller's yeast stream is transported via pipeline directly to Aventine's distiller's yeast plant. The distiller's yeast is removed from the beer stream and immediately processed into a growing variety of products for use in animal, pet and human food, and fermentation applications.
How Bio-Products are made:
Aventine Bio-Products operates to extract value added products from Aventine's corn wet milling and fermentation process.
Click below to see how the bio-products production process works.
Bio-Products Production Flowchart (PDF, 438 KB)
The Aventine Renewable Energy, Inc. Advantages
- New, world-scale distiller's yeast plant
- State-of-the-art food grade plant design
- AIB inspected facility - superior rating
- Kosher and Chametz-free certified
- Consistent supply and quality
- No more seasonality of distiller's yeast supply
- Continuous beer fermentation process
- No antibiotics
- Immediate processing of distiller's yeast
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