Pannonia Ethanol Zrt: Equipment Supply and Installation

Pannonia Bio, Europe’s largest biorefinery—founded in 2012 and located on the banks of the Danube near the city of Dunafeldvar—is one of the most efficient and environmentally friendly facilities in the world. In 2015, UTC was tasked with designing, manufacturing, and installing equipment for the rectification, dehydration, and DDGS production lines based on engineering specifications provided by Magen. As a subcontractor, UTC custom-manufactured 70% of the equipment for the DDGS plant and installed 100% of all equipment for the processing section, which has a capacity of 850 metric tons per day. The construction site covered 8 hectares, and the total weight of the steel structures and equipment was 2,500 metric tons.

Following the expansion, the plant tripled its production. Each year, it processes 1.1 million metric tons of feed corn to produce 325,000 metric tons of protein feed for animals, 500 million liters of bioethanol, and 12,000 metric tons of corn oil. Pannonia Bio is a subsidiary of ClonBio Group Limited, an Irish agricultural company headquartered in Dublin.