When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Sugar beet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_beet

    A sugar beet is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose and that is grown commercially for sugar production. ... A sugar beet farm in Belgium ...

  3. Raffinerie Tirlemontoise - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffinerie_Tirlemontoise

    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 ...

  4. Beet sugar factory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beet_sugar_factory

    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. The process involves several steps, including washing, slicing, and ...

  5. Waterloo sugar factory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_sugar_factory

    The name Raffinerie Nationale du Sucre indigène et exotique was pretentious, but it fit size of the capital of 4,000,000 Belgian Francs, which was huge at the time. [2] 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]

  6. Cosun Beet Company - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosun_Beet_Company

    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.

  7. Farmers drive tractors through Paris in protest at pesticide bans

    www.aol.com/news/hundreds-tractors-enter-paris...

    The action follows an EU court ruling last month that overturned a French policy allowing sugar beet growers to use an insecticide banned by the EU, raising concern of a further decline in beet ...

  8. Wanze Sugar Factory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanze_Sugar_Factory

    This limit was about 5–6 km. Therefore, there were a lot of small sugar factories. E.g. in Hainaut Province alone, there were about 90 sugar factories in 1877. [1] As beet contained only about 10% sugar, the idea to split the production process came up. The extraction of the raw juice from the beet would be done in a râperie close to the farm.

  9. Tereos - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tereos

    Tereos is a cooperative conglomerate, primarily active in the processed agricultural raw materials, in particular sugar, alcohol and starch markets. It has 44 factories in 9 countries, including Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kenia, Tanzania, Belgium and France [1] and employs about 20.000 people.