Corn starch

The brief called cornflour cornflour German GmbH, after 1918 German cornflour -Werke AG, was a company that specialized in the production of starchy foods such as corn starch, Mondamin and Weizenin. It was founded in 1916 in Hamburg as a subsidiary of the U.S. company, Corn Products Refining Corporation (CPC ), which had opened in 1905 as a sales office in Hamburg for the distribution of its starch products in Germany. 1916 cornflour was registered as a trademark. The company had factories in Germany in Hamburg, Barby (built in 1922/1923 ) and Krefeld. After the Second World War, the West German cornflour moved production from Hamburg to Krefeld. Also in the GDR (ie in later expropriated work Barby ) was initially under the name of cornflour, continued to be produced after 1949 under Maysan.

The product is a corn starch derived from corn, freed of protein, fat and fiber starch, which is used to bind and thicken soups, sauces and desserts, fondues. Unlike other starch flours such as potato starch, it can be cooked longer without diluting again. Dextro Energy also belonged to the product range.

As of 1922, cornflour involved in the food factory Knorr in Heilbronn, whose majority stake is acquired in 1958. In 1987, the company moved to Heilbronn.

1998 CPC was renamed Bestfoods, in the fall of 2000 Bestfoods was integrated into the Anglo-Dutch group Unilever.