Last editions of Sugar Industry

Sugar Industry – May, 2023

Top Stories

• “Substantial rainfall” delays beet sowing: yields expected to fall
• Beet area 2023 in Europe
• EU: sugar stock 2022/23 down 18% compared to 2021/22
• Still low EU sugar production in 2022/23
• Beet pulp, alfalfa marketing revamped in France
• World market prices for sugar at eleven-year high
• Berlin Symposium on Sugar Technology
• The 2022/23 beet campaign in Europe

Technical Articles

• Forward osmosis for the concentration of sugarcane juice
• Manufacturing, properties and selected applications of invert sugar syrups
• Integration of heat pumps for decarbonization of beet sugar factories
• Challenges with very long beet campaigns

Sugar Industry – April, 2023

Top Stories

• SZU said 2021/22 was financially balanced
• Tereos to close sugar factory and distillery, sell starch plant
• World sugar market: Production fall in India and slow start of the new season in Brazil support world market value
• XXXI ISSCT Congress Report

Technical Articles

• Blackstrap molasses as a source of bioactive compounds for the green synthesis of nanoparticles
• Characteristics of specialty and physiologically-enhanced refined sugars produced in Mauritius favourable for good health
• Evaluation of a neonicotinoid alternative to phorate for the management of soil insects in Florida sugarcane
• Real-time data driven maximisation of carbonatation filter bank throughput

Sugar Industry – March, 2023

Top Stories

• A complicated beet campaing comes to an end
• EU states disagree on ECJ ruling
• Cosun turnover +33%, EBITDA +54% at the end of 2022
• Owners of Bod factory acquire Luduș from Tereos
• Pfeifer & Langen IHKG: Slight improvement in fiscal 2021
• World market sugar prices hit a 6-year high but downward price correction is widely expected
• Further rise in EU sugar prices
• EU sugar imports up in first months of 2022/23

Technical Articles

• The role of polysaccharides in sugar beet processing
• Introduction of the pre-evaporator in the existing scheme of the evaporator station with co-current juice flow without installing a new apparatus

Sugar Industry – February, 2023

Top Stories

• Campaign data of sugar factories 2022/23
• AB Sugar: UK sugar production drops to 0.74 mn t
• Beet destroyed or “priority” processed – Sugar producers react to the mid-December frost spell
• World Sugar Market – Funds versus fundamentals
• Is this the end of neonicotinoids in beet seeds in the EU?
• German governing majority split on crop biofuels
• EU sees biofuel demand down in next ten years
• The importance of technology in today’s sugar world

Technical Articles

• Process improvements of a cane sugar plant
• Attributes of an excellent cane sugar factory

Sugar Industry – January, 2023

Top Stories

• Fearing virus yellows, CGB wants neonicotinoids in 2024, too
• Amalgamated Sugar celebrates its 125th anniversary
• EBITDA of Tereos jumps in first half of 2022/23
• World Sugar Market in 2022 – the last glance
• EU sees consumption down on the medium term
• 31th ISO Seminar: Carbon Sugar Energy – Transition to a sustainable world

Technical Articles

• On the solubility of sucrose in technical solutions – molasses revisited
• CO₂-neutral sugar factory, in affordable steps

Sugar Industry – December, 2022

Top Stories

• Japan: Second sugar refiner merger since 2021
• Two Romanian sugar factories back on track
• High sugar, ethanol prices boost revenues of AB Sugar
• Azucarera is again the largest beet processor in the North of Spain
• Beet prices on the rise in Europe
• US beet crop 2022/23 recovers from late start
• World sugar market: strengthening prices despite bearish sugar fundamentals
• USDA forecasts a tighter sugar market

Technical Articles

• Nordzucker plans for fossil-free sugar production
• Significant energy savings in the beet sugar industry to reach the decarbonization goals

Sugar Industry – November, 2022

Top Stories

• World sugar market: Crop dynamics in Brazil, India and Thailand keep world market prices under pressure
• Turnover of Cristal Union increases by 6.6% in 2021/22
• Lower EU sugar production results in lower stocks
• European sugar prices soar between July and August 2022
• EU: share of renewable energy 22.1% in 2020

Technical Articles

• Fructan (Levan) is a more pervasive polysaccharide in the sugar industry than previously thought
• Particularities and challenges in the crystallization of nonsucrose sugars
• Analysis of active seedcare substances in pelleted sugar beet seeds – method development and validation in a round-robin study

Sugar Industry – October, 2022

Top Stories

• New fragrances, new beet varietes: France’s diversified war on virus yellows
• Bundeskartellamt okays sugar companies’ agreement against gas shortage
• Sugar companies brace for natural gas shortage
• Start-up of the 2022 beet campaign of sugar factories
• World sugar market: New dichotomy between raw and white sugar price dynamics
• ICUMSA® News No. 84 – Message from the President
• EU sugar industry positions on EU Commissions’ proposal of chemical pesticide usage
• Perspectives for agricultural biogas production in France

Technical Articles

• Thermostability of thin juice
• Energy efficiency concepts in sugar house operation – what is old, what is new?

Sugar Industry – September, 2022

Top Stories

• Ukraine: War, high gas prices forcing shutdown of every third sugar factory
• Tereos closes strong 1Q, expects good yields but debt still high
• Revenue up, EBITDA down for Finasucre in FY2021/22
• World sugar market: Values under renewed pressure
• First estimate of EU sugar production 2022/23 announces decline

Technical Articles

• White sugar specifications and ICUMSA
• Flash cooling crytallization: a novel technology for the sugar industry?
• The fractal pack: New equipment for ion exchange operations in the sugar industry

Sugar Industry – July/August, 2022

Top Stories

• Südzucker starts 2022/23 with wind in its sails
• CoProB’s production goes down in 2021 but profit goes up
• IIRB holds 78th Congress, the first since Corona
• European sugar industry further recovers from slump after end of quotas
• Sideways world sugar market price dynamics
• EU balance for 2022/23 foresees lower ending stocks
• Südzucker transfers ownership of Oldisleben sugar factory to charitable foundation
• Oldisleben sugar factory: A technological monument

Technical Articles

• Sampling, sample handling and sample preparation of raw sugar, white sugar, speciality sugars and plantation white sugar
• Optimization of a batch centrifuge station

Sugar Industry – June, 2022

Top Stories

• Agrana closes 2021 with declining EBIT owing to Ukraine war
• Südzucker reports higher profit, invests in plant protein
• Nordzucker reports higher profitability
• Tereos closes 2021/22 with strong EBITDA, improved net income but debt still an issue
• World sugar balance back to surplus in 2022/23?
• CropEnergies with record result in 2021/22 financial year
• 7th ESST/VDZ Conference & Exhibition, Reims, 22–25 May 2022

Technical Articles

• New high bay warehouse as a result of a general logistics study
• Sweetening the deal: benefiting from smart technology through smart finance
• Digital weed management – New trends for weed scoring in sugar beet
• Comparison of mechanical vs. chemical weed control in sugar beet – Environmental effects: soil erosion, earthworms, CO₂e-emissions

Sugar Industry – May, 2022

Top Stories

• Bucharest wants Luduș plant to stay open
• USDA: Turkey sugar production +10% in 2022/23
• South Africa sugar output to rise despite unrest and floods
• World sugar market: Positive world market price dynamics
• MARS Bulletin sees good EU beet yields, strong in France
• SIT Conference 2022 in Orlando
• 7th ESST/VDZ Conference 2022 – Abstracts

Campaign Report

• The 2021/22 beet campaign in Europe

Technical Articles

• Continuous chromatography applied to the purification of sugars: a proven separation technology with multiple industrial applications
• Challenges and potential applications of genome editing in sugar beet

Sugar Industry – April, 2022

Top Stories

• Haegeman (CBB): Sugar beet sector needs market-friendly measures against volatility
• The many hurdles for the Ukrainian sugar sector since the country’s independence
• EU: Food security should be preserved CEFS: No to less biofuel blending
• EU sugar manufacturers raise beet price
• Al Khaleej Sugar plans large sugar factory in Rouen
• World sugar market fundamentals – back to balance in 2022/23?
• EU Commission puts bloc’s sugar production at 16.08 mn t in 2021/22
• EFSA finds no upper limit to sugar consumption

Technical Articles

• Benchmark study of evaporator cleaning practices in Louisiana cane sugar factories
• Comparison of mechanical and chemical weed control in sugar beet – Impact on pest insects and epigaeic predatory arthropods

Sugar Industry – March, 2022

Sugar Industry – February, 2022

Sugar Industry – January, 2022

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