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The stated goal of the company was the refining of raw cane- and beet sugar, growing sugar beet, and being active in the associated industries. [1] The associated industries saw to using byproducts for feeding cattle, and for producing alcohol. [2] To achieve all this, the company got four parts.
Sugar was a luxury in Europe until the early 19th century, when it became more widely available, due to the rise of beet sugar in Prussia, and later in France under Napoleon. [56] Beet sugar was a German invention, since, in 1747, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf announced the discovery of sugar in beets and devised a method using alcohol to extract ...
His extraction of sugar from beets, which was then only available from sugarcane, was the starting point for the sugar industry in Europe, [9] and the modern sugar industry in the world. [10] Although Marggraf recognized the economic impact of his discovery, he did not pursue it.
By 1914, the sugar beet industry in the US matched the production of its European counterparts. The largest producers of beet sugar in the US were California, Utah, and Nebraska until the outbreak of World War II. [48] [49] In California, Japanese Americans were an important constituent in farming and production. When they were interned during ...
The Eerste Nederlandsche Coöperatieve Beetwortelsuikerfabriek, or First Dutch Beet Sugar Factory Cooperative was founded on 19 October 1899. In Zeeland, the cultivation of sugar beet was boosted by the disappearance of the cultivation of the common madder, a plant traditionally grown in the area for dying fabrics. [1]
Sugar Factory Zeeland was a beet sugar factory in Bergen op Zoom, a city and municipality in the North Brabant province in the Southwestern Netherlands. It got its peculiar name when it was sold to the Coöperatieve Beetwortelsuikerfabriek Zeeland , a cooperative of sugar beet farmers from neighboring Zeeland province.
In the Netherlands, only the Oorsprong Sugar Factory in Oosterbeek continued to produce some sugar from beet. [2] The sugar refining industry of the Netherlands was subsidized by taxing the export of raw sugar from Java to other destinations. However, by the mid-19th century, the Netherlands Trading Society began to liberalize the export of raw ...
Achard taught classes to have a large number of sugar beet growers and the specially developed sugar beets became available for everyone. Achard described the sugar beet as, "one of the most bountiful gifts which the devine munificence had awarded to man on earth." [6] In 1794, Achard built an optical telegraph between Spandau and Bellevue.