News

Brazil’s total sugar production in the 2020-21 season (April-March) is expected to grow 32% and reach a record 39.33 million tonnes as mills allocate more raw material to sugar production and less to ethanol, the government said on Thursday. It is reported by Reuters. In its second projection for national production, which includes the major center-south region as well as the smaller north-northeast area, Brazil’s Conab food supp...

Farmers who grow sugar beets for the Moorhead-based cooperative began hauling them to its five Red River Valley factories on Tuesday, Aug. 17. American Crystal Sugar has factories in the Minnesota cities of Moorhead, Crookston and East Grand Forks and the North Dakota towns of Drayton and Hillsboro. It is reported by Grand Forks Herald. The cooperative’s farmer-shareholders will harvest about 404,000 acres of sugar beets this year, estimated Dan Gowan, American Crystal Sugar's direct...

«Astarta» sugar revenues amounted to EUR57m (up by 3% y-o-y) on improvement of realized prices to EUR354 per tonn compared to EUR329 per tonn a year ago. This lead to the EBITDA increasing to EUR8,1m in 1H20 from EUR4,0m in 1H19. It is reported by press center of the company. «Astarta»’s consolidated revenues amounted to EUR172m in the 1H20 with exports’ share of 53%. The Agricultural segment’s...

A total of 544,524 tonnes of cane has been crushed by the three sugar mills as of yesterday. It is reported by FBC News. The Fiji Sugar Corporation says this is an increase in cumulative crush compared to 465,015 tonnes for the same period last year. Nationally, mill performance remains...

The French government will propose lifting a ban on certain pesticides blamed for harming bees to protect sugar beet crops that have been ravaged by insects this year, the agriculture ministry said on Thursday. It is reported by Reuters. The government plans to support a legislative amendment in parliament later this year to exempt sugar beet for up to three years from a general ban on neonicotinoids, the...

Fiji exported 30,000 tonnes of sugar to the United Kingdom and Europe market. It is reported by FBC news. The Fiji Sugar Corporation has reported that this is the first bulk of sugar export for the year. 17,000 tonnes was loaded from Labasa and 13,000 tonnes from the Laut...

Currently, Shepetivka Sugar Refinery carries out an important reconstruction, thanks to which significant savings of costs and losses in sugar beet supply for production.  It is reported by the company on its Facebook-page. «We are approaching the beet storage silo to the refinery. Thus, the transportation distance will be reduced: previously it was about...

In July 2020, «Krasyliv Sugar Refinery» PC, founded in 1842, officially joined the “sweet” family of «A’SPIK Group», connecting with «Starokostiantynivcukor» LLC and «Shepetivka Sugar» LLC. It is reported by the company on its Facebook-page. Thus, the production complex became the third and the oldest sugar refinery in the group of companies. In order to prepare the refinery, which...

Egypt will aim to import 600,000-700,000 tonnes of sugar in the 2020-2021 financial year which began on July 1, an agriculture ministry official said on Sunday. It is reported by Reuters. During the last season, Egypt planted 340,000 feddans of sugar cane and more than 600,000 feddans of sugar beet, Mostafa Abdel Gawad, the head of the ministry’s sug...

«Astarta-Kyiv» received the award for leadership in energy management, according to the results of the international competition Energy Management Leadership Awards, which since 2016 has been organizing the global forum Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) – an international organization that brings together representatives of ministries of energy of 25 countries worldwide, the Europea...