Guide Get your FREE 5 Year Sugar Market Forecast. Download now × About Us Services Products Blog Contact us Sugar At Czarnikow we’ve been working in the sugar industry for the past 160 years, and traded 5.9 million metric tonnes in 2019. Sugar is present in most food and drinks we consume today and has been part of our diet since ancient times. It can be produced from either sugar cane or sugar beet and is bought and sold as either raw sugar or refined sugar. GET IN TOUCH Sugar in numbers We traded 4.6 million metric tonnes of raw sugar in 2019 Brazil is the world’s leading sugar producer 36.7 million metric tonnes in 2020/21 We traded 1.3 million metric tonnes of refined sugar in 2019 Sugar products Raw sugar Sugar that has been extracted from sugar cane or sugar beet at a sugar mill, but not gone through the refining process, is referred to as ‘raw sugar’. It is used mostly by industrial consumers, as at this stage it is not considered food grade. Refined sugar Refined sugar has gone through both the mill and refinery stages of sugar production and has had all impurities removed. This refined sugar is the kind you are most used to seeing on the supermarket shelf, in cafes and when baking at home. DOWNLOAD OUR PRODUCT BROCHURE FOR MORE DETAILS DOWNLOAD BROCHURE Related products SEE ALL Related services SEE ALL PACKAGING SWEETENERS COMMODITIES TRADING SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN [...] Looking to buy, sell or move sugar? GET IN TOUCH Related articles SUGAR CONSUMPTION UPDATE: THE FIRST FALL IN... In March this year, which now seems a lifetime ago, we predicted that due to the coronavirus sugar consumption was likely to fall. We reduced our consumption estimate for 2020 by [...] Read more ... CZARNIKOW ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 MARKET REPORT 2017 was characterised by extremely difficult trading conditions. Many major trading houses were poorly positioned throughout the year, which led to an accumulation of losses. (more…) Read more ... THE SUGAR SERIES : THE HISTORY OF... Present in 74% of foods sold in supermarkets, sugar is such a fundamental ingredient in almost everything we eat that it’s hard to imagine what people ate before the discovery of [...] Read more ... READ OUR LATEST INSIGHTS GO TO BLOG LEGAL COOKIE POLICY © COPYRIGHT CZARNIKOW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. We use cookies to enhance your experience. By continuing to visit this site you agree to our use of cookies. More info