British Sugar says it is making good progress processing a surprisingly sweet harvest - with more than 2.5m tonnes of sugar beet already sliced at its four factories. The company is more than a third ...

The process of farming and refining sugar beet in Britain hasn't changed much, but the power and the machinery behind it have. In 1925, a fledgling sugar factory in Norfolk managed to process 600 ...

Lining the shelves of the bakery aisle in your local grocery store are bags upon bags of sugar. Whether it’s brown sugar, granulated sugar, or powdered sugar, the sweet stuff is a vital part of baking ...

Every summer, students attending the annual McGinnis Institute of Beet Sugar Technology Beet End and Sugar End schools learn about a wide variety of topics from pulp pressing and drying to lime and ...

Laois Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley is backing attempts to restart the Irish sugar beet industry,hoping that a €400 million processing plant can be built in his election area.