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The whole system of subsidized beet sugar production and subsidized raw cane sugar import and its refining in the European community, led to a European overproduction of white sugar. This had to be sold at low world market prices. As long as the export was so-called A-Sugar or B-sugar, the losses were refunded by the Community.
A beet sugar factory, or sugar factory, is a type of production facility that produces sugar from sugar beets or alternative plants to sugarcane in making refined sugar. These factories process the beets to produce refined sugar , similar to sugarcane in other regions.
In the early 19th century, there were two options to transport sugar beet to a sugar factory.In France most beet were transported by wagons drawn by oxen or horses. This limited the maximum distance over which it was economically feasible to transport sugar beet to about 5 or 6 km. Speed was slow, and a wagon could transport only a very limited tonnage.
The company Raffinerie Tirlemontoise operates two beet sugar factories in Belgium: The factory in Tienen has a capacity of 12,500 tons of beets per day, Wanze Sugar Factory can process 16,500 tons of beets per day. The latter is fed beet juice by the Râperie de Longchamps, the last operational râperie in the world. Sugar specialties are ...
This made that the Dutch sugar refineries had to compete for this sugar with the British ones. It made the option to produce sugar from beet interesting again. [2] In 1858, the brothers De Bruyn, affiliated with the Nederlandsche Suikerraffinaderij then founded the first modern beet sugar factory of the Netherlands in Zevenbergen.
Cosun Beet Company (before 2020 Suiker Unie) [1] is a part of Royal Cosun.It produces white sugar and other refined sugar products. By acquiring the beet sugar division of Corbion in 2007 and Danisco Sugar GmbH in 2008, Cosun Beet Company became one of the five biggest European producers of sugar from sugar beet.
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British Sugar is effectively the sole buyer of all of the sugar beet grown in Britain. This output comes from around 2,300 beet growers throughout Britain. [12] There is however a proposal to start growing sugar beet in Eastern Scotland again to produce bioethanol. [13] [14] British Sugar is a supplier of cannabis to GW Pharmaceuticals. [15]