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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 building opened as a beet sugar factory in 1906 started by Glendale, Arizona founder William J. Murphy.The factory ran into a number of issues throughout its run, from needing to change water sources to wash beets, the amount of water necessary to grow sugar beets, low amounts of sugar being produced from the beets, and insect infestations in the beet crops. [2]
Sugar was distributed via a wheel steamer named "The Rosa," to San Francisco from the factory. [2] In the first year of production it processed 293 tons of beet sugar. [3] In 1873 the factory closed due to financial reasons. The equipment was sold to another plant in Soquel, California. [2] The factory was demolished in 1977. [4]
The Beet Sugar Factory Building – It was built in 1906. The one million dollar Beet Sugar Factory was built by the Arizona Sugar Company, founded by William John Murphy. It produced sugar until 1913. The building is listed in the National register of Historic Places. The Boiler and lime kiln house and repair shop of the Beet Sugar Factory.
In 1897 Oxnard built the fourth factory, the Pacific Beet Sugar Company, at Oxnard, California. [2] These were the four companies that formed American Beet Sugar. Expansion of the company continued, with construction completed on a plant at Rocky Ford, Colorado in 1901. [2] American Beet Sugar changed its name to American Crystal Sugar in ...
State regulators have fined American Crystal Sugar $350,000 over air pollution from its factory in East Grand Forks, Minn. The sugar beet processing plant, one of five the cooperative operates in ...
The second method to produce alcohol from sugar beet is to ferment the sugar beet themselves. I.e. without attempting to produce sugar. The idea to distill sugar from the beet came up soon after the first beet sugar factory was established. [28] Between 1852 and 1854 Champonnois devised a good system to distill alcohol from sugar beet. [30]
The sugar beet factory was completed in 1903 by William Garland, with machinery shipped on the new rail line. In the first season, the factory processed 18,900 tons of sugar beets into 1523 tons of sugar. By 1906, it processed 84,000 tons of sugar into 10,350 tons of sugar.