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Publisher’s Corner
Volume 78, Number 9
W
e would like to announce that after
15 years as Production Manager,
Mindy Walker, has retired. We were
very lucky to have Mindy on-board for so many years
and appreciate all the hard work she did. We are also delighted to
announce that we have hired a new Production Manager, Laura
Sanders. So this month you will see a new look in the inside pages of
Sugar Journal. We welcome Laura and hope she is on board as long
as Mindy was and beyond.
In this edition, we are including our annual Latin American
Buyers’ Guide. As you see, it is directed to our Spanish speaking
audience so that they can learn more about our sugar suppliers. These
companies help the international sugar industry to become more
efficient in their production and processing.
The Sugar Processing Research Institute (SPRI) is hosting
their biennial meeting in Walnut Creek, CA. We have included a
preliminary schedule of events along with an in-depth history of this
important research facility. Because part of the SPRI Conference
includes a tour of the C&H Refinery, we have a descriptive article
on their facility, courtesy of C&H.
We have also included excerpts of the January Sugar and
Sweeteners Outlook. As you read the report you will see there is
important information about labeling that sugar producers should be
aware of.
This year is an exciting one for the sugar industry, as you will
read in the upcoming issues of Sugar Journal. You can subscribe for
either the print or the electronic edition on our website. In the past,
the electronic edition could not be shared within the sugar facility,
but we have reformatted the magazine so that it can be shared with
everyone now.
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Contributing Editor, Africa Peter Lyne
Technical Editor Steve Clarke, Ph.D.
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Publisher Romney Kriedt-Richard
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Laura Sanders
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Accounting
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Columns
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7 People and Places
29 What’s Cookin’–
Crawfish Macque Choux
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Features
C&H: A Jewel In The Refining Industry
A Historic Perspective of
Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc.
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Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook: January
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Directorio de Proveedores Latinoamericanos
Latin American Suppliers’ Directory
Departments
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30 Advertisers’ Index
30 Coming Meetings
Cover
C&H Refinery, Crockett, CA.
Courtesy of C&H Refinery part
of the ASR Group.
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Sugar Around the World
Alexander & Baldwin
Announces Transition
Out of Sugar
Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. announced
that it is transitioning out of farming sugar
and will instead pursue a diversified agricultural model for its 36,000-acre Hawaiian
Commercial & Sugar Company (“HC&S”)
plantation on Maui. Sugar operations will be
phased out by the end of 2016, and the transition to a new model will occur over a multiyear period. No immediate layoffs will result
from the announcement and approximately
half of the 675 employees will be retained
through the end of the sugar harvest, which is
expected to be completed late in 2016. Beginning in March, employees will be laid off as
their specific functions are completed. Under
the new diversified model, the plantation is
planned to be divided up into smaller farms
with varied agricultural uses, potentially including energy crops, food crops, support for
the local cattle industry, and the development
of an agriculture park.
Robert Sinnard
Buckner to Retire
From Western States;
Robert Sinnard
Named as Successor
Western States announced
that David Douglas Buckner
will step down from his role as
president and CEO effective
December 31, 2015. Buckner
will assist with international
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market development and continue
as a member of the board of directors. Robert Sinnard, currently the
director of sales and marketing will
assume the role of president and
CEO as of January 1, 2016. Buckner has been the company’s president and CEO since May, 2011 and
a member of its board of directors
since January 2000.
The company’s board of directors unanimously elected Bob Sinnard as president and CEO and
is additionally a newly appointed
board member. Sinnard joined
Western States in January, 2012 as
Director of Sales and Marketing.
One of Sinnard’s key contributions
- leading both the inside/outside
sales force, and 25 independent representatives, while increasing sales
by almost 25%.
Prior to joining Western States,
Sinnard served in multiple managerial/sales roles at The Quaker Oats
Company and Anheuser Busch.
Sinnard attended Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL, and obtained
a B.S. in Business Administration.
Later he acquired his MBA from
the University of Notre Dame.
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The McGinnis Institute of Beet
Sugar Technology is sponsored by
the Beet Sugar Development Foundation and is a self-sustaining school
of beet sugar manufacturing technology. The Beet End Sessions will
take place June 12 - 24, and the Sugar End Session will be July 10-22.
The purpose is to instruct beet
sugar company employees and
other technologists in the fundamentals and beyond on factory
processes, their application to factory operations and the details of
People & Places
the practical operations of the unit
processes. Since details of equipment and process vary from factory
to factory, major emphasis will be
given to the most commonly used
equipment and practices, but some
coverage will be given to other systems still in operation. The courses
are designed to make the student
more valuable to the employer and
to provide a greater potential for
advancement.
For more info email
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Gaine Named Sugar
Association Interim
President and CEO
The Sugar Association Board of
Directors announced that Courtney
Gaine, PhD, RD, has been named
interim president and CEO for the
organization. Gaine brings more
than a decade of experience in nutritional sciences and important
leadership qualities to the position.
Gaine previously served as vice
president of scientific affairs at The
Sugar Association. Prior to that,
she held the position of senior science program manager at the North
American branch of the International
Life Sciences Institute (ILSI North
America), a public, non-profit scientific foundation that advances the
understanding and application of science related to the nutritional quality
and safety of the food supply.
Having obtained her Ph.D. in
nutritional sciences and biochemistry and bachelor’s degree in dietetics from the University of Connecticut, Gaine was a co-captain of
the UConn Women’s Basketball
Team (1998-1999).
Gaine succeeds former president
and CEO Andy Briscoe, who recently resigned after 13 years of service.
Chobani vs Dannon:
Natural or Artificial Sugars on labels?
Chobani, LLC, a maker of Greek
Yogurt Brand, announced that it has
filed an action against The Dannon
Company, Inc. in the United States
District Court Northern District
of New York following statements
made by Dannon in response to certain Chobani advertising campaigns.
Chobani is seeking a declaration from
the Court that Chobani’s advertising
for its Chobani Simply 100® Greek
Yogurt products is not false, misleading, disparaging or deceptive and that
Chobani’s reliance on the USDA nutrient database to support its claims
that its Greek Yogurt contains sub-
stantially less sugar than regular yogurt are not false or misleading.
Chobani launched its new campaign for Chobani Simply 100 Greek
Yogurt (“the Simply 100 campaign”)
on January 6, 2016, to help consumers
make informed decisions about their
food choices, including the choice
between natural sweeteners and artificial sweeteners.The campaign notes
that sucralose, an artificial sweetener
found in Dannon Light & Fit Greek
Yogurt, is processed with added chlorine, which prevents sucralose from
being broken down into the body for
energy, according to the FDA.
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C&H: A JEWEL IN THE REFINING INDUSTRY
T
he C&H Sugar refinery, located in the small town of
Crockett on the Carquinez
Strait, 30 miles northeast of San
Francisco, has been a proud part of
the Contra Costa County community and a pillar of Bay Area manufacturing for 110 years.
When the refinery was opened in
1906 by the California and Hawaiian
Sugar Refining Company at the site
of a former flour mill, it employed 400
people and produced 67,000 tons of
refined Hawaiian cane sugar. In 1938,
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
visited the refinery to honor its significance to the regional economy.
Employees presented him with an engraved eight-pound square sugar cube
which read, “The employees of C&H
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present you with the world’s largest
sugar cube made in the world’s largest
sugar refinery.” Today, the C&H Sugar refinery
is still a vital economic engine for the
region. It provides 455 direct jobs,
which includes numerous generational employees whose parents and
grandparents worked at the refinery.
The company generates nearly 200
additional jobs through trucking, terminal operations, cargo handling and
ship piloting.
Each year, twenty-five ships deliver 750,000 tons of raw sugar to the refinery. Once offloaded, the raw sugar
is temporarily stored in nine massive
raw sugar silos, each capable of holding 25 million pounds. The factory refines 6 million pounds of sugar every
day and supplies approximately 14%
of the nation’s cane sugar.
While the fundamentals of the
C&H Sugar refinery’s process have
changed very little over the past century, modern state-of-the-art technology has increased the refinery’s
production capacity, its efficiency and
the diversity of its products – all while
maintaining the same high-quality
standards that customers have long
associated with the C&H® brand.
The C&H Sugar refinery has 32
packaging lines and makes 100 types,
grades and sizes of products, including
a wide variety of packaged consumer
sugars as well as packaged, liquid and
bulk granulated industrial-use sugars.
More than 30,000 truck trips and 400
railcars per year deliver these products
C&H REFINERY THEN AND NOW. PHOTOS COURTESY C&H REFINERY.
to grocery, industrial, food service and
specialty sweetener customers across
the west coast.
The refinery’s products range from
single packets of sugar to 2,000-pound
super sacks. Granulated sugar, baking
sugar, single serve and convenience
packs, and specialty sweeteners are
all produced at the refinery, as are the
signature colored crystals, which are
popular among west coast bakeries.
Over the years the C&H Sugar
refinery has also instituted major
warehousing and equipment im-
provements. The refinery’s automated
inventory and warehouse management system communicates real-time,
location-specific data with increased
visibility and ease of access. The warehouse has an Automated Storage and
Retrieval System (ASRS) with six
aisles, each served by a crane, with a
total storage capacity of 15,600 pallets of sugar. The warehouse uses two
robotic palletizers five Automated
Guided Vehicle (AGV) “tuggers,”
which each transport eight pallets at
a time of product from production
lines to the ASRS. There are also two
Automated Guide Vehicle (AGV)
forklifts, which haul empty pallets
to the palletizers. The automation of
machinery in the warehouse has increased throughput by 27% – 115
trailers per day compared to 90 trailers before the automation.
In addition to being one of the bay
area’s top manufacturers, the C&H
Sugar refinery is committed to being a
good neighbor to the 3,000 residents
of Crockett, just as it has for the past
110 years. The refinery proudly supports the Crockett Community Foundation, the Carquinez Women’s Club,
the Carquinez Fire District, the Food
Bank of Contra Costa and Solano and
the John Swett Unified School district, among other local charities. The
refinery also sponsors and participates
in many beloved town traditions, including the Sugartown Festival, a
community holiday party and tree
lighting celebration each December
and other events for town residents
throughout the year.
As part of the refinery’s 2015
Earth Day commemoration, the company replaced more than 800 40-watt
incandescent bulbs in its sign’s 22foot tall “C and H” letters with ecofriendly LED light bulbs that require
80 percent less energy. The C&H refinery is owned by
ASR Group, the world’s largest cane
sugar refining company, which has an
annual production capacity of more
than 6 million tons of sugar. The company produces a full line of grocery,
industrial, food service and specialty
sweetener products. Across North
America, ASR Group owns and operates six sugar refineries, located
in Louisiana, New York, California,
Maryland, Canada and Mexico. In the
European Union, the company’s sugar
refineries are located in England, Portugal and Italy. It sells it sugar through
its brand portfolio which, in addition to C&H®, includes the leading
brands Domino®, Florida Crystals®,
Redpath®, Tate & Lyle®, Lyle’s®,
Sidul® and Notadolce®.
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A Historic
Perspective
of Sugar
Processing
Research
Institute, Inc.
S
ugar Processing Research Institute, Inc. is a research institute whose efforts support
the international sugar manufacturing and processing industries for the
purposes of developing, monitoring
and understanding new processes
and products, developing and maintaining analytical methodology for
the sugar industry, solving problems
and serving as an information data
base for sponsoring companies.
SPRI, as the institute is generally known, is a non-profit corporation maintained through annual
contributions of the sponsoring
member companies of the corporation. Member companies include
beet and cane sugar producers and
refiners, suppliers to the industry
and major sugar users. SPRI exists
primarily for the needs of its sponsoring member companies.
SPRI is based in New Orleans,
Louisiana, USA, with laboratory
and office space in the US Department of Agriculture’s Southern
Regional Research Center. The
Board of Directors of SPRI (one
director from each sponsoring
member) elects the corporate officers and executive committee every
two years. The executive vice president also serves as the managing
director and is responsible for the
research program, personnel and financial operations of the group and
coordinator for the biannual SPRI
conference. While the research
group is small, it is totally focused
on issues that are important to its
members. The Research Advisory
and Review Committee of SPRI
determines the major research efforts of the group each year at its
committee meeting. SPRI’s location in a major research center also
provides access to important technology, equipment and cooperating
scientists in many disciplines.
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ORIGINS
The Sugar Processing Research
Institute, Inc. has developed over
time from various preceding research
organizations. In the late 1930’s there
was concern on the part of some cane
sugar refiners in the U.S. that their
refining process depended on bone
char, a substance about which little
was known. A group of sugar refiners was brought together by John W.
Lowe of Revere Sugar to support research on bone char at the National
Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C., where Frederick J. Bates
worked with the sugar industry on
polarimetry. In 1939, Dr. Victor R.
Deitz initiated the work of the Bone
Char Research Project (BCRP), on
the nature and reactions of bone char
and other decolorizing carbons. In
1948, Dr. Frank G. Carpenter and
Neil Pennington joined the director,
Dr. Deitz, and investigations expanded into the chemistry and processing
of other areas of cane sugar refining.
The BCRP Reports and Proceedings
of the seven Technical Sessions on
Bone Char are still the major source
of information on decolorizing carbons in sugar refining.
In 1963, the National Bureau
of Standards changed policy and
stopped housing industry-sponsored
research. Industrial sponsors wanted
the work to continue and instituted
a cooperative research effort with
the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Southern Regional Research Center in New Orleans, where a USDA
research group worked on sugarcane
milling and raw sugar manufacture.
Dr. Frank G. Carpenter moved to
New Orleans to direct the new Cane
Sugar Refining Research Project,
Inc. (CSRRPI) and remained there
until his retirement in 1984. Among
major accomplishments of the CSRRPI group were the first identification of specific sugar colorants, most
from the cane plant; examination
of the problem of acid beverage floc
from cane sugars, and initiation of a
program on dextran and other polysaccharides in cane sugars. Dr. Frank
Carpenter began the close association
of the group with ICUMSA, which
continues today.
In the late 1970’s, the work of
CSRRPI moved toward raw cane
sugar quality from both refiners’ and
producers’ viewpoints. As the 1980’s
began, beet sugar producers showed
interest in membership and in 1981,
the research group was reorganized
to SPRI (then Sugar Processing Research, Inc. The term “Institute” was
added a few years later), with Dr.
Margaret A. Clarke as Managing
Director. Dr. Michael C. Bennett,
who had been president of CSRRPI, became the first president of
SPRI. After the death of Margaret
Clarke, PH.D in June 1998, Chung
Chi Chou, PH.D was named managing director and was replaced by Ms.
Mary An Godshall in 2000. SPRI’s
focus on industry related issues continued during this time along with
its involvement in ICUMSA and the
USNC. In 2007, Charley Richard,
PH.D assumed the role of executive
vice president and managing director of SPRI where the efforts toward
process improvements and analytical
methods development continue today.
Over the years, SPRI has had major involvement with organizations
dealing with analytical methods including International Commission on
Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis
(ICUMSA), Association of Official
Analytical Chemists (AOAC International), and Codex Alimentarius.
As the official US representative to
ICUMSA since 1934, the United
States National Committee (USNC)
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AMONG THE GOALS OF SPRI ARE:
To devote its best effort to
be a center of excellence
in sugar technology for the
international sugar industry.
To examine the
fundamentals of sugar
production and refining
processes to gain
understanding of the
chemical and physical bases
of these processes in order
to improve the operation
of current processes and
to develop new processes
and products. The objective
would be increased
productivity with an
emphasis on cost reduction,
automation, increased
yield and product quality
assurance. To study the chemical nature
of sugars, sweeteners, nonsugars and sugar-producing
plants in order to explain
processing problems and
product quality issues.
This would include sugar,
molasses, other by-products
of sugar processing, bagasse
and beet pulp. The objective
is to coordinate new
developments in agricultural
and processing practices to
provide its members with
a return on their research
investment.
To develop new analytical
methods for the international
sugar industry as such needs
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are identified as well as
improving and expanding
methods in current use.
The objective is to apply
rapid, practical methods to
industrial needs.
To develop innovative
processes or technologies
to meet energy and
environmental needs for
sugar production via original
research. The objective is
to provide for a sustainable
international sugar industry.
To serve as an information
resource and data base
on sugar production,
process problems, sugar
manufacturing byproducts,
sweeteners, and associated
areas for the international
member companies of
SPRI, Inc. The objective is to
maintain a library of problem
solving information and the
dissemination of scientific
and technical information
on sugar and sugar related
products manufacturing to
its sponsoring companies.
To provide educational
and training needs in sugar
technology for its members
and the international sugar
industry. The objective
is to provide individual
training and/or international
workshops on various
industry topics.
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and its efforts have been coordinated
through the SPRI office. SPRI has
also participated and presented papers at industry organizations such
as American Chemical Society
(ACS), Sugar Industry Technologists (SIT), International Society
of Beverage Technologists (ISBT),
International Society of Sugar Cane
Technologists (ISSCT), American
Society of Sugar Beet Technologists (ASSBT), American Society
of Sugar Cane Technologists (ASSCT), and the European Society of
Sugar Beet Technologists (ESST).
In addition to operating its research program, SPRI holds the Conference on Sugar Processing Research
every other year, for technical leaders
in the sugar industry. Proceedings of
these Conferences form a written record of advances in processing, new
products and analytical methodology
in the cane and beet sugar industries.
The SPRI Science and Technology
Award is presented at each conference
to an industry representative selected
ACID BEVERAGE FLOC CAN BE SEEN IN THIS BEAKER
by a committee for significant contributions to the science of sucrose processing and production or outstanding contributions to the technology of
sugar production.
SPRI’s accomplishments emphasize the non-sugars in sugar crops,
and their effects on process. Examples
include: application of colorant classification in cane and beet sugars to
factory and refinery processing and
removal of colorant types in process;
identification of dextran problems in
cane and beet processing, and development of both an official (AOAC)
test for dextran in raw sugars as well
as a rapid assay; assessment of filter
impeding factors and identification
of fine field soil particles as a major
hazard; identification of both vegetative and microbial polysaccharides in
sugarcane and sugar beet and their
process and product related problems, and, most recently, development of official ICUMSA methods
for rapidly determining starch levels
in sugar and process streams and rap-
id prediction of acid beverage floc for
the bottling industry.
SPRI has been in the forefront of
research on the analytical measurement of sugar process streams by incorporating HPLC/IC systems in the
1980’s and studying Near Infrared
methodology during 1990s.
SPRI’s major areas of research
over the last quarter century have
been focused on sugar colorant and
polysaccharides, sucrose loss, membrane filtration, Near Infrared (NIR)
and other analytical methodology,
and product quality studies. These
have been described in the papers presented by SPRI personnel at the conference on Sugar Processing Research.
Today, SPRI’s research effort continues in sugar colorants, improvement and discovery of analytical
methods to improve processing and
sugar utilization, improvements in
sugarcane and sugar beet juice clarification, characterization of germplasm
for contaminants in sugar processing,
improvements to sugar beet process-
PHOTOS BY CHARLEY RICHARD
ing streams, and examination and
characterization of problems encountered in sugarcane and sugar beet processing as well as sugar utilization by
food and beverage companies.
A newly developed website is expanding to allow for easier dissemination of information to its members
and to demonstrate the potential of
the organization to potential members. This website can be found at
www.spriinc.org
At the 2016 SPRI Conference in
Walnut Creek, California, SPRI will
celebrate the 77th anniversary of its
founding. The range and diversity of
sponsoring companies gives SPRI
added perspective to conduct research
across the entire industry, to accommodate sponsors’ needs, from field to final
product, and permits the objectivity that
is a characteristic of the work of Sugar
Processing Research Institute, Inc. Join
us in 2016 for the SPRI Conference in
Walnut Creek, California.
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CONFERENCE
Tentative Schedule
of Events
MARRIOTT HOTEL
Walnut Creek, California
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2016
2:00pm: Conference Registration
7:00pm: Welcome Reception
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2016
8:30am-5:00pm: Technical presentations,
vendor displays, coffee breaks, lunch
Executive Committee
Ron Kawlewski
Bjarne Nielsen
CHAIRMAN
Southern Minnesota
Beet Sugar Coop.
IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIRMAN
Neltec Denmark A/S
Pranee Turbush
VICE-CHAIRMAN
The Coca-Cola Company
AT LARGE MEMBER
Sugar Cane Growers Coop.
Of FL
Charley Richard
Doug Emek
EXECUTIVE VICE-CHAIRMAN
Sugar Processing Research Inst. Inc.
AT LARGE MEMBER
Lantic Inc.
Michael Arvizu
Brian Harrison
TREASURER
PepsiCo
AT LARGE MEMBER
Imperial Sugar Company,
Louis Dreyfus Commodities
Teri Pi Grace
SECRETARY
Sugar Cane Growers Coop. Of FL.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2016
8:30am-5:00pm: Technical presentations,
vendor displays, coffee breaks, lunch
7:00pm: Reception and closing banquet
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2016
8:30am-3:00pm: Technical Tour of ASR C&H
Sugar Refinery
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Robert “Bob” Hatch
AT LARGE MEMBER
American Charcoal Co., LLC
Research Advisory & Review Committee
Pranee Turbush
Tere Pi Grace
CHAIRMAN
The Coca-Cola Company
Sugar Cane Growers Coop.
Of FL
Michael Arvizu
Will Legendre
PepsiCo
American Sugar Cane
League
Michael Burchell
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2016
9:00am-4:00pm: Post Conference Tour of
Napa area wineries
Jose Alvarez
ASR-Group
Thomas Rathke
Imperial Sugar Company,
Louis Dreyfus Commodities
Conference attendees
and guests might
want to venture out
to the interesting and
beautiful areas around
Walnut Creek, filled with
history and wonderful
surroundings
This top dining establishment is housed
in a museum quality, antique train that
runs on 25-­
miles of
track in the heart of
the Napa Valley. The
train itself has two
engines, three kitchens on board and a
collection of early
20th century Pullman rail cars faithfully restored with
Honduran mahogany
paneling, brass accents, etched glass
partitions and plush armchairs that
evoke the spirit of luxury rail travel
in the early 1900s. Take a trip into
the luxurious American past and
experience an unparalleled memory-­
making journey.
San Francisco
Napa & Sonoma
America’s premier viticulture region has earned its reputation among
the world’s best. Rolling hills, dotted
with century-old oaks, turn the color
of lion’s fur under the summer sun
while swaths of vineyards carpet hillsides as far as the eye can see.
There are over 600 wineries in
Napa and Sonoma Counties, but it’s
quality, not quantity, that sets the
region apart, which competes with
France and doubles as an outpost
of San Francisco’s top-end culinary
scene. Sonoma prides itself on agricultural diversity, with goat-cheese
farms, you-pick-em orchards and
roadside fruit stands. Plan to get lost
on back roads, and, as you picnic atop
sun-dappled hillsides, grab a hunk of
earth and know firsthand the thing of
greatest meaning in Wine Country.
The Napa Valley Wine Train is one
of the most distinctive Napa restaurants, offering an authentic, memorable
experience that echoes the glory days
of train travel, with fine dining service,
multiple course meals, Napa Valley
scenery and ultimate relaxation aboard
exquisitely restored vintage rail cars.
San Francisco is often called
“Everybody’s Favorite City,” a title
earned by its scenic beauty, cultural
attractions, diverse communities,
and world-class cuisine. Measuring
49 square miles, this very walk-able
city is dotted with landmarks like
the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars,
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Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook: January
REDUCED CANE SUGAR PRODUCTION, FEWER QUOTA IMPORTS
PROJECTED FOR 2015/16 RESULT IN TIGHTER SUPPLIES
for 2015/16 are 1.588 million STRV,
a 71,000 STRV reduction from the
previous month. The stocks-to-use
ratio is projected to be 13.0% for the
U.S. sugar supplies for 2015/16
programs and 77,000 STRV fewer
year, compared with the December
Louisiana
Cane
Sugar
Production
Reduced,
Beet
Sugar
Production
Unchanged
from
December
Louisiana
Cane
Sugar
Production
Reduced,
Beet Sugar Production Unchanged
imports under the re-export program
are projected at 13.802 million short
projection
of 13.5%.
stemming from an announced change
tons, raw value (STRV), in the JanuMexican sugar production in
Minor revisions to the 2014/15 balance table were
reported
by the
Servicebalance
Agency’s
(FSA)
Market
Minor
revisions
toFarm
the 2014/15
table
wereSweetener
reported by
the Farm Service A
ary World Agricultural Supply and
in the Mexican IMMEX program.
2015/16 is projected to be 6.056 milData (SMD). Production for the year is adjustedData
by slightly
than 1,000
tons,israw
value by
(STRV)
forless than 1,000 short
(SMD).less
Production
forshort
the year
adjusted
slightly
Demand Estimates (WASDE),
Under this policy change, U.S. sugar
lion metric tons, actual value (MT),
Louisiana, which currently totals 1.513 million STRV
in thewhich
January
World totals
Agricultural
SupplySTRV
and Demand
Louisiana,
currently
1.513 million
in the January World Agric
a147,000 STRV-reduction from the
exports benefiting from the U.S. Reunchanged from the previous month.
Estimates (WASDE). The rounded total sugar production
figure remains
8.649 million
STRV,
however.figure remains at 8.649
Estimates (WASDE).
Theatrounded
total sugar
production
previous month’s projection. Projectexport Program will no longer qualify
Early season production reports indiDomestic deliveries for 2014/15 are revised by fewer
than deliveries
500 STRVfor
due
to a 16,000
STRVby
reduction
in food
Domestic
2014/15
are revised
fewer than
500 and
STRV due to a 16,
for duty-free status under IMMEX.
cate that the harvest campaign is laged domestic sugar production is rebeverage deliveries, offset by a 16,000 STRV increase
in the
residualoffset
miscellaneous
deliveries
category.in Ending
beverage
deliveries,
by a 16,000
STRV increase
the residual miscellaneo
duced 57,000 STRV to 8.934 million
U.S. domestic sugar deliveries for
ging behind both the previous year’s
stocks for the fiscal year are revised upward 1,000
STRV
STRV.
stocks
forto
the1.768
fiscalmillion
year are
revised upward 1,000 STRV to 1.768 million STRV.
STRV due to reductions in cane sugar
2015/16 are projected to be 12.090
pace and initial estimates for this year’s
million STRV, unchanged from the
production in Louisiana and Texas.
crop. The main part of the sugarcane
U.S. sugar production in 2015/16 is projected toU.S.
totalsugar
8.934production
million STRV,
a 57,000-STRV
decrease
in 2015/16
is projected
to totalfrom
8.934the
million STRV, a 57,0
previous month’s figure. Sugar exports
Beet sugar production is unchanged
harvest still lies ahead, however, with
December projection. The entirety of the reduction
is the result
of less The
projected
cane
which isis projected
December
projection.
entirety
of sugar,
the reduction
the result to
of less projected c
from last month’s report. Projected
are projected to be 123,000 STRV, a
the majority of the sugarcane harvest
total 3.776 million STRV. Production in Louisiana
reduced
42,000
STRVProduction
in January,intotaling
1.423
million 42,000 STRV in Ja
totalis3.776
million
STRV.
Louisiana
is reduced
2015/16 imports are reduced 91,000
77,000 STRV decline from the Detaking place after the New Year.
STRV, based on mill reports through the end of STRV,
December
andonassuming
the next
crop’s
production
in
based
mill reports
through
theearly
end ofseason
December
and assuming
the next
cember
WASDE
due
to
the
change
in
STRV from the December WASDE
Mexican imports for 2015/16 are
September 2016 is in line with historical averages.
Wet weather
theline
State’s
producing
regionWet
hasweather
hampered
September
2016 in
is in
withcane
historical
averages.
in the State’s can
the IMMEX program by the Mexican
reduced 65,000 MT to 90,000 MT due
to 3.100 million STRV due to 15,000
sugar production of the current crop. Sugar production
in Texas isofprojected
to total
STRV, a 15,000
STRV
sugar production
the current
crop.115,000
Sugar production
in Texas
is projected to to
Government. Projected ending stocks
to the announcement in the changes to
STRV fewer imports under quota
reduction from the previous month’s estimate based
on processor
reduction
from thereports.
previous month’s estimate based on processor reports.
Table 1 -- U.S. sugar: supply and use, by fiscal year (Oct./Sept.), January
Table 1 2016.
-- U.S. sugar: supply and use, by fiscal year (Oct./Sept.), January 2016.
2014/15
2015/16
2014/15 2014/15
2015/16 2015/16
Items
Items
2013/14
2013/14 2013/14
(estimate)
(forecast)
(estimate)(estimate)
(forecast)(forecast)
1,000 Short tons, raw value
1,000 Metric
tons,
rawtons,
valueraw value
1,000
Short
Beginning stocks
2,158 stocks1,810
Beginning
1,768
1,958
2,1581,642
1,8101,604
1,768
Total production
Beet sugar
Cane sugar
Florida
Louisiana
Texas
Hawaii
8,462
Total
production
4,794
Beet
sugar
3,667sugar
Cane
1,763
Florida
1,591
Louisiana
145
Texas
168
Hawaii
8,934
5,158
3,776
2,073
1,423
115
165
7,676
4,349
3,327
1,599
1,444
132
153
8,4627,847
4,7944,439
3,6673,408
1,7631,791
1,5911,372
145 112
168 132
8,6498,105
4,8934,679
3,7563,426
1,9751,881
1,5131,291
123 104
146 150
8,934
5,158
3,776
2,073
1,423
115
165
Total imports
Tariff-rate quota imports
Other program imports
Non-program imports
Mexico
3,742
3,553
Total
imports
1,302 quota 1,536
Tariff-rate
imports
305program imports
471
Other
2,135
1,546
Non-program
imports
2,130
1,532
Mexico
3,100
1,514
238
1,348
1,333
3,394
1,181
277
1,937
1,932
3,7423,223
1,3021,393
305 427
2,1351,403
2,1301,389
3,5532,812
1,5361,374
471 216
1,5461,222
1,5321,209
3,100
1,514
238
1,348
1,333
14,012
13,802
13,029
12,712
14,362
12,521
14,012
13,802
185
123
278
306 168
185 112
123
0
0
0
0
0
Total supply
Total exports
Miscellaneous
14,362
Total
supply
Include Table 1
Total306
exports
Include Figure 2
0
Miscellaneous
8,649
4,893
3,756
1,975
1,513
123
146
0
0
0
Deliveries for domestic use
Transfer to sugar-containing products
for exports under re-export program
Transfer to polyhydric alcohol, feed, other alcohol
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) sale for ethanol, other
Deliveries for domestic food and beverage use
12,246 for domestic
12,060 use
12,090
11,109
Deliveries
Transfer to sugar-containing products
82
100
74
for exports
under 103
re-export program
29 to polyhydric
28 alcohol, feed,
35 other alcohol
27
Transfer
316
0
0 sale for ethanol, other 287
Commodity
Credit Corporation
(CCC)
11,819 for domestic
11,929 food and
11,955
10,722
Deliveries
beverage use
10,941
12,246
10,968
12,060
12,090
82 93
29 25
0
316
10,822
11,819
103 91
28 32
0
0
10,845
11,929
100
35
0
11,955
Total Use
12,552
Total
Use
12,213
11,387
11,108
12,552
11,080
12,245
12,213
Ending stocks
Private
Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)
1,810stocks 1,768
1,588
Ending
1,810
1,768
1,588
Private
0
0
0
Commodity
Credit Corporation
(CCC)
1,642
1,642
0
1,8101,604
1,8101,604
0
0
1,7681,441
1,7681,441
0
0
1,588
1,588
0
Stocks-to-use ratio
14.42
14.44
13.01
14.42
Stocks-to-use
ratio
14.4214.44
14.4413.01
Source: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Sugar
and Sweetener
Source:
U.S. Dept. Outlook.
of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Sugar and Sweetener Outlook.
13.01
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high and low spot prices on
a weekly basis for both beet
sugar in the Midwest and
cane sugar. The following
analysis uses the midpoint
of this range to compare
the spread between the
two prices. A great deal of
sugar marketing takes place
through longer-term contracts that provide prices
for the future delivery of
product, rather than being traded at quoted spot
market rates. The terms of
these contracts are not publicly available, however. In
2014/15, the premium for
cane sugar ranged between
0 cents to 1 cent per pound
over the course of the year.
Total imports
by Mexicoprogram
for 2015/16
projected
to be 90,000
MT, a 65,000-MT
decrease
from
themarket
December The premium continued
the IMMEX
thatarewill
take place
on smaller,
niche-type
products
and
projection. The reduction is due to the Mexican Government announcement that certain sugar imports would no
beginning
in February
and
likely result
through the beginning of
The4,stated
of largeimports
longer qualify
for benefits
provided
bywill
the IMMEX
program categories.
after February
2016. commitments
As a result, projected
in
fewer
imports
from
the
United
States.
Do2015/16, expanding to 1.5
food
companies
to
make
these
strategies
under the IMMEX program are lowered to 80,000 MT from 145,000 MT the previous month. Overall, total supplies
mestic
deliveries
remain
unchanged
at
4.725
cents per pound by the end
company-wide
could
have
significant
imfor 2015/16 are reduced 65,000 MT compared with December’s projection to 6.957 million MT.
million MT, as fewer imports under the IMof the 2015 calendar year.
plications for the structure of sugar demand
MEX program are projected to result in more
Over the past 18 months,
in the United States. This could create disdomestic supplies delivered to the program.
the trend shows a growing
tinct markets between the U.S. beet sugar
premium for cane sugar.
and cane sugar market, although sugar deTaken in context with
rived from cane versus beet is indistinguishprices going back to 2012,
able on a chemical basis. As an illustration
however, the premium is
of the potential distinction, the Sugar Users
still relatively small. From
Association (SUA) requested in a letter adJanuary 2012 to December
dressed to the USDA and dated December
The distinction between the beet sugar
2015, the spread between
14, 2015, that the USDA specifically take
market and the cane sugar market is an iscane and beet refined suginto account the availability of cane sugar
sue that has received renewed attention over
ar averaged 1.2 cents per
in the current year’s policy decisions regardthe past several months. There has been repound, reaching as high
ing raw sugar imports. Since the commercial
cently increasing focus by some food comas 4.0 cents per pound in
panies on sourcing ingredients that comply
introduction of GM varieties of herbicideresistant sugar beets in 2008/09, adoption
some periods. Given the
with labeling requirements, either through
present data, it still is undeof these varieties has been widespread in the
external certification programs or internal
termined whether a change
United States. Currently, nearly all beet sugsourcing standards. The use of varieties that
has taken place in the pricar production in the United States is derived
do not utilize genetically modified (GM)
ing structure for cane vertechnologies has the potential to impact
from GM varieties. Alternatively, there are
sus beet-refined sugar or if
U.S. sugar markets fundamentally. In recent 5 no GM varieties of sugarcane commercially
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Michael McConnell,
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KEMIRA
FLOCULANTES
Broadbent, Inc.
LUBRICANTE
A&F Texas
Prodek, Inc.
Servicios De
Consultoría
INGENIEROS CONSULTORES
BMA
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more than 5000
measuring units
installed
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BMA
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DE ENERGÍA
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DE VAPOR DE LA TURBINA
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Filtros
ESPESORES DE FILTRO
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proMtec Theisen GmbH | Pforzheimer Straße 162
D-76275 Ettlingen | Tel: +49(0)7243-5306-0 | Fax: +49(0)7243-5306-11
Email: [email protected] | www.pro-m-tec.de
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Prodek, Inc.
Bombas
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Prodek, Inc.
Wabash Power Equipment
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BMA
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Prodek, Inc.
UNIDADES DE BOMBEO
DE AGUA
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Refining
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REFINERÍAS, DISEÑO / ERECCIÓN
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Prodek, Inc.
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Wabash Power Equipment
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See September 2015 issue of Sugar
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DIRECTORIO DE
PROVEEDORES
LATINOAMERICANOS
INFORMACIÓN
DE CONTACTO
Latin American Suppliers’ Directory
Contact Information
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Belyea Company, Inc.
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Email: [email protected]
Tel: 281-449-9332
Fax: 281-449-1742
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Tel: 970-351-0878 / 800-708-3043
(US & Canada only)
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Email: [email protected]
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Tel: +55 11 3097 9328
Fax: +55 11 3032 2386
Web: bma-worldwide.com
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 610-515-8775
Fax: 610-515-1263
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Email: [email protected]
Broadbent Inc.
Tel: 813-741-9463
Fax: 813-677-3128
Web: broadbent.co.uk
Email: [email protected]
Case IH
700 State Street
Racine, WI 53404
Phone: 262-636-6011
Fax: 262-636-6272
www.caseih.com
Crompion
International
P.O. Box 3296
Baton Rouge, LA 70821
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Fax: 225-343-6033
www.crompion.com
e-mail: [email protected]
GAME Equipment LLC
Tel: 985-369-9292 Fax: 985-369-9595
Web: gameeq.com
Email: [email protected]
Honiron Corporation
Tel: 337-276-6314 Fax: 337-276-3614
Web: honiron.com
Email: [email protected]
John Deere Thibodaux
Tel: 985-447-7285 Fax: 985-447-5735
Web: johndeere.com
KEMIRA
2050 West Sam Houston Pkwy South
Houston TX, 77042 USA
Phone: 832 941 0064
www.kemira.com
Prodek, Inc.
Tel: 305-594-4488 Fax: 305-594-3735
Web: prodekinc.com
Email: [email protected]
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Web: silver-weibull.se
Email: [email protected]
Sugar Industry Equipment Inc.
Tel: 225-293-5519 Fax: 225-293-0863
Web: sugarandpower.com
Email: [email protected]
The Bigelow Company
Tel: 716-741-1300 Fax: 716-741-4863
Web: thebigelowcompany.com
Email: [email protected]
Wabash Power Equipment
Tel: 847-541-5600 Fax: 847-541-1279
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Western States Machine Co.
Tel: 513-863-4758 Fax: 513-863-3846
Web: westernstates.com
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What’s Cookin’
Crawfish
Macque Choux
Ingredients
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, in all
3/4 cup finely diced red pepper
3/4 cup finely diced green pepper
3/4 cup finely diced celery
1 bunch scallions
(tops and bottom separate)
1 cup finely diced purple onions
2 quarts fresh sweet corn
2 tablespoons salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 tablespoon black pepper
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup minced fresh thyme
3/4 to 1 pound crawfish tails*
*Shrimp can replace crawfish tails
To Prepare
Melt 4 tablespoons butter in sauté pan and
add red and green bell peppers, celery, purple
onions, and scallion bottoms and cook gently
until softened.
Add corn, salt, sugar, and black pepper to pan
and continue to cook gently for 5 more minutes.
Pour in heavy cream and bring to a
simmer for 4 minutes.
Remove from heat and add scallion tops and
thyme. Stir to incorporate.
This is the base for the macque choux. The vegetable
base may be cooled and heated later.
To serve, melt 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter in a
medium to large pot, add crawfish tails, and sauté
for 2 minutes. Stir vegetable base into sautéed
crawfish and butter, along with 1/4 cup of water
or stock, and allow to cook together for 5 to 8
minutes to allow all flavors to combine and liquid to
evaporate. Serve at once.
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Coming Meetings
Consultants
February 1-3, 2016 | Louisiana ASSCT, Lafayette, LAASSCT.org *
February 21-24, 2016 | SPRI, Walnut Creek, CASPRIINC.org *
May 15-18, 2016 | Sugar Industry Technologists 75th Conference,
New York, NY USASIT.org *
June 13-15, 2016 | ASSCT-Joint Louisiana & Florida Meeting,
Tradewinds Island Grand Resort, St. Pete Beach, FL USAASSCT.org *
December 5-8, 2016 | XXIX International Society
of Sugar Cane Technologists (ISSCT) Congress,
Chiang Maai, Thailandhttp://29issctthailand.com/ *
* Publisher will be attending. To arrange a meeting, email: [email protected]
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