KWST grows by integrating Mitsubishi Corporation as shareholder and strenghtens the strategic alliance with the global operating conglomerate.

KWST starts up a steam generator powered by waste wood from the region and establishes the subsidiary KWST International GmbH.

KWST establishes the subsidiary KWST Bioethanol Rockstedt GmbH, which in cooperation with a partner in Rockstedt is involved in the manufacturing of bioethanol out of waste material from the food industry.

With the building of a product feeder pipeline and the company's own jetty on the Mittelland Canal, the logistics are expanded significantly and the company's position as a European supplier of ethanol is solidified.

The company's infrastructure is vastly expanded by a new boiler, cooling equipment and loading facilities.

KWST patents a proprietary process for manufacturing bioethanol and biogas from grain.

Commissioning of a new plant for producing 45,000 m³ p.a. of water-free bioethanol.

KWST is the first supplier to deliver bioethanol to the German fuel industry.

Upon finally leaving the spirits monopoly, the company develops new markets in the area of spirits and cosmetics. In addition, an anaerobic/aerobic biogas plant with a high-performance (UASB) reactor is built.

During the construction of a fully-continuous molasses distillery (according to the Biostil process) the first water-treatment plant with anaerobic (biogas) is introduced in the distilling industry.