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American Sugar Refining, Inc. is a large privately held cane sugar refining company, with a production capacity of 6.5 million tons of sugar. The company produces a full line of consumer, industrial, food service, and specialty sweetener products.
The American Sugar Refining Company (ASR) was the most significant American business unit in the sugar refining industry in the early 1900s. It had interests in Puerto Rico and other Caribbean locations and operated one of the world's largest sugar refineries, the Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, New York.
In the late 19th century, sugar refining in the United States was controlled by the American Sugar Refining Company. The federal government attempted to take antitrust action against the company, but was blocked by the Supreme Court's ruling in United States v. E. C. Knight Co. in 1895. [8]
The Domino Sugar Refinery is a mixed-use development and former sugar refinery in the neighborhood of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York City, along the East River.When active as a refinery, it was operated by the Havemeyer family's American Sugar Refining Company, which produced Domino brand sugar and was one of several sugar factories on the East River in northern Brooklyn.
Henry Osborne Havemeyer (October 18, 1847 – December 4, 1907) was an American industrialist, entrepreneur and sugar refiner who founded and became president of the American Sugar Refining Company in 1891.
Pages in category "Sugar refineries in the United States" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Boston Sugar Refinery; C.
Boston Sugar Refinery, East Boston, Massachusetts; Domino Sugar Refinery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York is a mixed-use development and former sugar refinery in the neighborhood of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York (1882-2004), replaced structures built 1856 and destroyed by a fire. Catherineberg Sugar Mill Ruins, Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands
In 1892, the American Sugar Refining Company gained control of the E. C. Knight Company and several others, which resulted in a 98% monopoly of the American sugar refining industry. U.S. President Grover Cleveland , in his second term of office (1893–1897), directed the national government to sue the Knight Company under the provisions of the ...