Sugar Industry

Top Stories

• Emergency permits for neonicotinoids in 2022
• Krajowa Spółka Cukrowa opens new logistic center, builds low-temperature pulp drier
• Cosun Beet Company launches Bright Beet Book
• World sugar market prices in retreat?
• EU forecasts biofuel demand decrease after 2022
• Study: EU has enough feedstock to boost advanced biofuel production
• EUBP: Global bioplastics production to triple to 7.5 mn t by 2026, mostly in Asia
• Sugar Industry Foundation: Support for sugar technology at TU Berlin

Technical Articles

• Root tissue strength and storage losses of sugar beet varieties as affected by N application and irrigation
• Catch crop cultivation – A contribution to the EU Green Deal

Top Stories

• Hit by low yields in France and Brazil, Tereos closes 1H-2021/22 with higher losses
• Profit of AB Sugar jumps to €181mn (+75%) in 2020/21
• Conviso Smart beet varieties spreading in Europe
• Midwest beet growers attain record yields
• World sugar values moving sideways
• Brexit changes EU sugar export structure
• Scotland opens first biorefinery, thinks about second one

Technical Articles

• Reduction of ammonia emissions and use of carbonatation vapors in sugar factories
• Virus Yellows in sugar beet – possibilities to achieve virus resistance

Top Stories

• France: New law regulates beet contracting
• Cristal Union goes back to profit, lowers debt in 2020/21
• Südzucker posts strong 1H-2021/22 despite growing costs
• KWS sells 6.6% more beet seeds, launches biological treatments
• World sugar values moving sideways
• USDA sees more sugar in Mexico, Pakistan, less in South Africa
• Low EU sugar stocks at the end of marketing years 2020/21, 2021/22
• Lower imports of organic sugar into the EU
• Higher EU sugar production in 2021/22
• Researchers at TIB make synthetic starch out of CO₂

Technical Articles

• Principles of juice purification
• Current perspective and future research directions on defecation clarification for the manufacture of raw sugar
• Integrated variety test system – Growing by challenges

Top Stories

• Start of the 2021/22 sugar campaign in Europe
• Acor’s new president interview with Sugar Industry
• AB Sugar profits from higher sugar prices
• World sugar market relatively stable in September 2021
• ePure members produced more hand sanitizers in 2020, ethanol imports kept growing

Technical Articles

• Chemistry and microbiology in sugar extraction
• Steam drying markedly increases the solubility of feruloylated arabinan-rich pectic polysaccharide in sugar beet pulp

Top Stories

• Reformulation and falling sales: the effects of sugar tax in the UK and SA
• Finasucre closes FY2020/21 with growing revenues, EBITDA
• Study: effects of Chile food label law “significant”
• World sugar market: new season – new worries, new hopes
• Start-up of the 2021 beet campaign of sugar factories
• 2021 General Meeting of the German Association of Sugar Technologists

Technical Articles

• Operation of a six-effect evaporator station with a deficit in the vapour balance
• Influence of exopolysaccharides on viscosity of sugar juices with low sucrose contentsSpread of bacterial and virus yellowing diseases of sugar beet in South and Central Germany from 2017–2020
• Less steam for more: Hybrid tubular plate heat exchangers the cleverer heating elements for falling film evaporators

Top Stories

• Al Khaleej signs declaration of intent to build sugar factory in Mérida (Spain)
• CoProB improves results thanks to higher sugar prices and sugar yields
• Floods hit Cosun and Pfeifer & Langen – Euskirchen restarted twelve days after flood
• Sugar and salt reformulation tax project alarms British Sugar, FDF
• Tongaat: debt down, losses up in 2020/21
• World sugar market: Prices at 4.5-year high
• European sugar industry recovers in third year after end of quotas
• “Maximum allowable intake” of total sugars not determinable, EFSA said
• USDA: Covid-19 sank ethanol consumption in the EU in 2020, recovery remains slow
• 32nd Session of ICUMSA – Final Recommendations

Technical Articles

• Storage of white sugar in large-capacity silos
• Spread of bacterial and virus yellowing diseases of sugar beet in South and Central Germany from 2017–2020

Top Stories

• Nordzucker reports high profit for 2020/21
• Tereos 2020/21 hit by asset depreciation in 2020/21, still burdened by debt
• Cristal Union reports good FY2020/21, restarts with new logo
• Tate & Lyle closes well FY2021, “a year that has tested us”
• World sugar market: World market values in retreat

Technical Articles

• The beet sugar factory of the future
• The SMRI-NIRS technology Part 2: Improving factory performance

Top Stories

• Cristal Union returns to profit in FY2020/21, goes greener
• Nordzucker reports high profit in 2020/21
• CropEnergies, Special products help Südzucker in FY2020/21
• Agrana closes good 2020/21, Sugar segment in recovery
• Higher yields and sugar exports help Cosumar during corona
• MSM closes strong 1Q, focuses on Johor refinery
• EU Commission updates production and balance for 2020/21
• EU beet area a tick down in 2021
• Profit of CropEnergies grows by 2.9% in FY2020/21
• World sugar market: World market prices – bullish momentum lost

Technical Articles

• Identification of the microbiota in sugar extraction juices by sequencing-based techniques
• The SMRI-NIRS technology: development, validation and benefit

Top Stories

• Royal Cosun: Sugar reports profit for 2020 after two years of losses
• Higher profit, EBITDA and less exports for Astarta in 2020
• Thailand: Sugar industry to recover in 2021/22
• Late frost destroys thousands of ha of beet in France
• Sugar market: World market prices – a quick recovery from a 3-month low in early April
• VDB: European biofuels reduce ILUC risks
• High prices support German bioethanol industry in 2020
• Organic beet production on the rise in Europe

Campaign report

• The 2020 campaign in Europe

Technical Articles

• Key performance indicators and set-points in sugar beet processing

Company Reports

Top Stories

• UK: AB Sugar sees good 1H-2020/21, neonic ban waiver reversed
• Spain: Azucarera punished by court, at odds with growers. Acor launches permanent committee with beet farmers
• Nigeria: Sugar Master Plan fails to deliver self-sufficiency
• World sugar market: The end of the world market price rally
• ePure presents an overview of biofuels obligations in the EU
• India seeks early implementation of E20 blending mandate

Technical Articles

• Successful implementation of plate heaters and evaporators in the sugarcane industry
• Impact of tops and green leaves on sugarcane processing: laboratory testing
• The “father of the beet sugar industry.” On the 200th anniversary of the death of Franz Carl Achard

Top Stories

• Higher sugar prices, ethanol demand help Cosun close 2020 well
• Campaign data of sugar factories 2020/21
• Pfeifer & Langen expects positive result in 2020 for sugar division
• Struggling with federal governments’s support, Schweizer Zucker focuses on beet area, eyes ethanol plant
• World market prices at 4-year highs
• EU Commission predicts record low sugar stocks, Brexit reduces EU-UK sugar trade
• EU sugar production moves eastwards as France’s sugar production keeps shrinking
• Merger of Raizen with Biosev creates the world’s largest sugar producer

Technical Articles

• Processing deteriorated beet Part 2: Preventive and process measures
• Influence of whip smut (Sporisorium scitamineum) infection on quantitative parameters of sugarcane cultivars

Top Stories

• New Tereos management says no to possible merger
• Financial reports of Agrana, Nordzucker and Südzucker for 9M-FY2020/21
• Despite lower production and sales SZU reports higher revenues in 2019/20
• Campaign data of sugar factories 2020/21
• In view of a rebound production in 2020/21, Mexico needs to export sugar in markets other than the US
• World sugar market: Prices at new highs
• Despite pandemic, the Brazilian sugarethanol sector calls RenovaBio “a success”
• Corn ethanol from Brazil on the rise

Technical Articles

• Roadmap Greenhouse Gas Neutral Sugar Industry in Germany – Pathways to Climate Neutrality 2050
• Processing deteriorated beet. Part 1: Indicative and quantitative analysis of the degree of deterioration
• Estimation of sugar beet biomass and yield comparing NDVI measurements and physical soil parameters

Top Stories

• Tereos’ new chapter: Duval and Lefebvre ousted and replaced
• EU Commission sees sugar prices up, human consumption down towards 2030
• Eswatini: A large sugar producer in respect to its size
• Germany follows France granting emergency approval for neonicotinoid use in beet growing
• World sugar market: Leaving 2020 behind
• EU sugar production 2020/21 now put at 14.76 mn t
• India and Brazil look into biogas from cane by-products
• 29th ISO Seminar: COVID-19 and Climate Change

Technical Articles

• Process design and equipment selection for optimized steam and power concepts – the “zero” process steam sugar factory
• Proposal for modernization of Robert evaporators
• Structure and chemical composition of exopolysaccharides of frost-damaged sugar beet

Top Stories

• Sugar segment drives growth of Tereos EBITDA in 1H-2020/21
• Cost savings, higher sugar prices boost AB Sugar profit in 2019/20
• Record low beet yields in France
• Group of French MPs call neonic ban waiver unconstitutional / Finnish growers may use nenoics, Swiss farmers won’t
• World sugar market: Gradual recovery of world market prices continues
• Do sucrose-sweetened drinks reduce appetite?
• EU says biofuels from feed/food should be minimized
• Thünen-Institut expects decreasing demand for sugar in Germany

Technical Articles

• Technical accounting: sugar extraction and losses
• Development of an ICUMSA method – a comparison of cane analysis methods
• Direct production of less than 50 IU white sugar at a cane sugar plant

Top Stories

• Neonicotonoids: German, Dutch and Swiss sugar sectors request waivers
• Tereos and Cristal Union increase beet prices – CGB sees beet yields down by 15% and a short campaign
• In France virus yellows hits southern beet crops badly, Paris works at neonicotinoid comeback
• Philippine sugar industry recovers from Covid-19
• Cosumar achieves record export volume in 2019
• Acor aims at 13,000 ha for Olmedo, Azucarera beet area did not recover from downturn in 2019
• Südzucker and Agrana report half-year improved results, Nordzucker sees profit at the end of FY2020/21
• World sugar market: Sugar and the second wave of the coronavirus cases
• Raízen inaugurates its first biogas plant at a sugarcane mill
• EU biofuel consumption 6.8% higher in 2019
• Germany gives green light for Nutri-Score

Technical Articles

• Ensilage of pressed beet pulp
• Elimination of the juice clarifier and the drum vacuum filter at a cane sugar plant
• Occurrence and importance of root rots caused by fungal pathogens on sugar beet grown in Konya province of Turkey

Top Stories

• AB Sugar profit up in 2019/20 but virus yellows to hurt sugar production in the UK in 2021
• World sugar market: New season – old game?
• EU to see lowest sugar production in five years in 2020/21
• ePURE members produced 5.6 bn L ethanol in 2019 but imports doubled to 1.29 bn L in the same year
• Donald Trump tries to regain lost favor of ethanol sector
• Brazil ethanol industry affected by Covid-19
• India’s ethanol output +17% in 2020 but imports to grow too
• 30 years Dachverband Norddeutscher Zuckerrübenanbauer (DNZ)

Technical Articles

• Designing an evaporator station with effects consisting of two or more vessels
• Vinasse incineration with bagasse as a supporting fuel
• Sugar refinery audits, debottlenecking and efficiency improvement
• Reasons for slow genetic improvement in sugarcane relative to other crops

Top Stories

• French government makes EU neonicotinoid ban wobble
• ASMC says bioenergy will boom if Australian government supports sugar sector
• Tongaat Hulett results show restructuring worked
• Finasucre turns to macadamia nuts
• CoProB closes one of its “most difficult years”
• South Africa government encourages restructuring of the sugar industry
• World sugar market: Brazil’s performance as well as prospects for India and Thailand in the focus
• EU Commission estimates nearly unchanged sugar beet harvest
• Climate change consequences – extreme aphid infestation causes viral diseases

Technical Articles

• Sugar hydrolysis and colour formation in processing
• Analysis of milling operation with electro-hydraulic individual drives in the Ferrari Sugar Mill
• Methodological studies on the precision of variety trials with sugar beet – effect of sample size and head rows

Top Stories

• Suiker Unie going forward under the name Cosun Beet Company
• Cristal Union reduces loss to €89mn after closing Bourdon, Toury, Erstein
• Südzucker and Agrana see good 1Q-2020/21 on improved profitability in Sugar
• EU sugar companies reduced losses in 2019/20
• Despite Covid-19, revenue, profit of AB Sugar grow in 3Q-2020
• USDA forecasts higher Indian sugar production
• World sugar market: Brazil – the main short-term driver
• Lower EU sugar beet area in 2020
• 100 years Association of South German Sugar Beet Growers

Technical Articles

• Scale characteristics and removal
• Prebiotics from energy cane bagasse
• Storability as a varietal characteristic of sugar beet? – Results 2016–2018

Top Stories

• World sugar market: are fundamentals reasserting themselves?
• Nordzucker’s results improved in FY2019/20
• Tereos unable to reduce debt despite growth, asset sales
• Tate & Lyle profit +4% in FY2019/20
• 150 years Pfeifer & Langen

Technical Articles

• Understanding milling tandem control
• Biogas production from hydrolyzed sugar beet pulp and from top and tails
• Lime kiln conversion from coke to natural gas operation – an option in direction of sustainable energy
• Influence of tissue strength on root damage and storage losses of sugar beetCauses and effects of the occurrence of „Syndrome des basses richesses“ in German sugar beet growing areas

Top Stories

• World sugar market: Non-sugar factors in the driving seat
• USDA predicts major change in sugar/ethanol ratio in Brazil
• RFA: Lockdown measures causing ethanol sector collapse
• Royal Cosun: Higher sugar prices lower sugar segment deficit
• Südzucker posts improved operating result for 2019/20
• CropEnergies reports record FY2019/20 results but Covid-19 to bring decline
• Agrana with improved results for 2019/20
• Astarta grows in 2019/20 despite weak Sugar segment

Technical Articles

• Considerations on the optimal processing capacity of beet sugar factoriesLime salts: origin and control in beet processing

Campain Reports

• Suiker Unie
• Switzerland
• Nordzucker

Top Stories

• World sugar market: Oil price crush and Covid-19 weigh on world market sugar prices
• CoProB masters strict lockdown measures
• IEA sees large growth potential for gas from organic waste worldwide
• Biofuels producers turn to hand sanitizers

Technical Articles

• Lime salts: origin and control in beet processing
• A new vertical continuous vacuum pan (evaporating crystallizer) design
• Research on physico-chemical properties of sugars and sugar crystallization at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague
• Sensor system development for lowdamage sugar beet harvesting – state and perspectives

Top Stories

• World sugar market: Stock market decline weighs on sugar price
• In 3Q-2019/20, EBITDA of Tereos increases 134% year-on-year
• AB Sugar expects improved results in second half of 2019/20
• Rusagro profit –24% to €243mn in FY2019
• Study says costs of advanced biofuels can decrease
• Pfeifer & Langen publishes consolidated financial statements for the first time
• Schweizer Zucker 2018/19 barely in the black

Technical Articles

• Technological aspects of the beet yard operation
• Effects of improved beet quality in recent decades on juice purification in Dutch factories
• Concentration in the Czech and Polish sugar markets
• Causes and effects of the occurrence of „Syndrome des basses richesses“ in German sugar beet growing areas

Top Stories

• World sugar market: Global sugar prices post strong gains
• Südzucker, Agrana results improve in 3Q-2019/20
• Campaign data of sugar factories 2019/20

Technical Articles

• Impact of beet quality on sugar manufacture – Part 1. General considerations of the technological beet quality
• Competitiveness of different sugarcane industries in an era of low sugar prices
• Early drought stress: Effects on yield formation and quality of sugar beet
• Tissue composition and arrangement in sugar beet genotypes of different tissue strength with regard to damage and pathogen infestation

Top Stories

• World sugar market: Fundamentals support global sugar prices
• Russian producers threatened by low prices amid fast production growth
• EU fails to stop granting of neonic waivers for the second time
• GuySuCo to setup new refinery at Albion mill
• Tongaat Hulett restatement casts shadow on group’s survival
• HFCS consumption at historic low in the US
• EU Commission changes sugar price reporting as of 2021
• ISO Seminar in London: It’s about people

Technical Articles

• Legionella in factory water systems – a regulated future
• Flujo 2018 – Sugar industry fluid-flow calculations
• Digitalization and sugar industry – Impact of user experiences from around the globe on developments in automation and digitalisation
• 3D Scanning as a part of “Virtual Plant Asset Management” – a short trip to industry 4.0
• New fast measuring method for process optimization of sucrose crystallization
• Geometric and spectral recording of crop characteristics for phenotyping of sugar beet and wheat