Pfeifer & Langen IP GmbH

Founded in 2022 the Pfeifer & Langen IP GmbH is developing and managing intellectual properties in the sugar processing from beet to silo as well as holding intellectual property rights, including their economic use, in particular through licensing solutions and/or renting of assets to companies in the Pfeifer & Langen Group and/or to third parties.

From field to customer

Pfeifer & Langen IP GmbH supports the vision of Pfeifer & Langen GmbH & Co KG to invent or adapt digital solutions for the entire value chain of sugar production. The development team consists of a group of enthusiastic engineers and software developers who share a passion for using new technologies and optimizing processes. These innovations are managed for the Pfeifer & Langen sugar group by Pfeifer & Langen IP GmbH. Innovations include sensors specifically developed for the sugar production process, predictive automation solutions for the various process steps, event-driven data visualization for monitoring and controlling the process; these are developed using the latest IoT technologies and cloud services as well as standardized engineering tools and are protected, managed and utilized as IP. The task of IP GmbH is to control and finance this development as well as to market it internally and externally, always with a focus on enabling scalable solutions to improve and standardize all process steps from the beet to the package. An example of these solutions are sensors specifically adapted for the sugar industry, which enable sugar production processes to be continuously monitored and improved from anywhere in the world.

Parent Company

Pfeifer & Langen IP GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pfeifer & Langen GmbH & Co KG, one of the most efficient producers of sugar in Europe with a clear customer focus.

Pfeifer & Langen GmbH & Co KG produces and supplies sugar products for households as well as for the food, non-food and animal feed industries. Pfeifer & Langen is the third largest German sugar producer after Südzucker and Nordzucker and a leading sugar manufacturer in Europe. Pfeifer & Langen operates sugar factories in Appeldorn, Elsdorf, Euskirchen, Jülich, Könnern and Lage as well as in Środa Wielkopolska, Gostyń, Miejska Górka, Glinojeck, Gora, Głogów (Poland), Radechiw, Tschortkiw, Sbarasch, Kosowa, Chorostkiw (Ukraine), and Thessaloniki and Athens (Greece). In 2021, the sugar division generated sales of 975 million euros with a total of 2,557 employees. In 2020/21, Europe-wide beet sugar production was around 2.0 million tons.

Contact

Email info@pl-ip-gmbh.com
Phone +49 221 4980 374