In a joint venture with Solazyme, the Brazilian agricultural and food giant Bunge is building a plant next to its sugar cane refinery in south central Brazil; it will use the sugar to feed the algae, which it expects to make up to 30 million gallons a year of oil for soaps and other products.
The church acted as a social centre for employees of the Ossorio sugar cane refinery.
At least one abandoned sugar cane refinery was visible along the coastal road snaking from the capital, its smokestacks forlorn in the distance.
American Sugar Refining operates six cane sugar refineries in North America, and had bought some of Tate's former sugar businesses such as Domino in the United States and Redpath in Canada in recent years.
Thirty years ago, there were more than 20 independent cane-sugar refineries in the United States, buying raw sugar from mills at the government price and churning out sucrose for American tables.
For example, in addition to sucrose itself, isokestose (1-kestose) [1, 2], kestose (6-kestose) [1, 2], and neokestose [2, 3] are present in cane and beet refinery molasses, while theanderose [4] has been reported in cane molasses.
CONVENT, La. — This was not how Cindy Cole pictured her life at 26: living in a mobile home park called Sugar Hill, wedged amid the refineries and cane fields of tiny St. James Parish, 18 miles from the nearest supermarket.
The Addax project will be the largest investment so far in Sierra Leone's agricultural sector and includes a new sugar cane estate, an ethanol refinery and a biomass power plant for the refinery and the national electricity grid.
They are notoriously inefficient: because the ancient machinery in refineries frequently breaks down, cut cane sits for hours in the sun, its sugar content seeping away.
