Sugar Mills

Sugar Mill
A sugar mill is a facility where sugar cane is milled and processed into raw sugar. Occasionally sugar mills will also function as refineries, producing ICUMSA 45, ICUMSA 100, ICUMSA 150, and other types of refined sugar. Sugar mills have seen a considerable boom over the past five years, as the global sugar market [...]

Sugar Cane

Sugar Cane
Underlying a multi billion dollar sugar industry is a humble grass commonly known as sugar cane. In spite of the fact that it quite often grows well over six feet high unlike the lawn grasses it is related to, sugar cane is indeed a grass, in fact, the term ’sugar cane’ encompasses a genus [...]

Sugar Trading

Sugar Trading
As one of the world’s most widely traded commodities, the trading of sugar can be a complicated endeavor, with natural phenomena, political concerns, and other factors such as fuel prices all impacting heavily on the market. Much sugar is traded on futures markets, by which supplies can be secured years ahead of time. This [...]

Brazilian Sugar Cane

Sugar Cane
Sugar cane is the plant from which most of the world’s sugar is made. A tall willowy grass which can grow between two and six meters in height, sugar cane contains a juice which is high in sucrose, and which can easily be extracted by shredding and crushing harvested sugar cane.
Sugar cane has been [...]