Tagatose manufacturer upscales using process automation
Bonumose successfully starts up tagatose production from starch-based feedstock with Endress+Hauser instrumentation
Charlottesville, Virginia-based Bonumose, a growth-stage startup company, primarily manufactures a rare sweetener option known as tagatose. Using an enzymatic reaction, Bonumose can convert starch-based materials, such as maltodextrin, grains and starches, to create a “rare monosaccharide” that tastes and functions like sugar but has positive health benefits. Bonumose decided to enhance, automate and digitalize its process with Endress+Hauser instrumentation to reach its company growth goals.
Bonumose can create tagatose on a grander scale with process instrumentation.
Ready for growth
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After months of utilizing Endress+Hauser instrumentation, Bonumose is primed for expansion and growth. Bonumose has successfully started up tagatose production from starch-based feedstock.
“Without Endress+Hauser instrumentation telling us all of our operating parameters, there’s no way we’d have dialed into the point we are now."
Bonumose
The need to upscale
Bonumose needed proper instruments to upscale and optimize the amount of tagatose it produced to continue that upward trajectory. While Bonumose faced typical startup hurdles, it also had to develop methodologies for processing tagatose due to the lack of publicly available industrial knowledge. The company had few to no use cases to study when it launched. In addition, Bonumose faced challenges gathering prudent information on densities and volumes to use in its process.
Process instrumentation is worth its weight in … tagatose
Avid Solutions, a system integrator partner of Endress+Hauser, constructed the bridge between Endress+Hauser and Bonumose after gauging the healthy food ingredient manufacturer’s needs. Today, with various Endress+Hauser instrumentation found throughout their skids and facility, Bonumose is now preparing to scale as a business. From flowmeters to liquid analysis sensors to level and pressure sensors and countless others, Bonumose’s process is drenched in signature Endress+Hauser blue.