Employee Email Contact Us JOIN OUR TEAM OUR COMPANY GROWING & PROCESSING LINKS PRODUCTS & PROCESSING Home Growing & Processing Products & Processing Join Our Team Our Company Growing & Processing Harvest & Storage Products & Processing Links Products & Processing Sidney Sugars beet sugar processing takes place in a specially designed processing facility. At the factory, sugarbeets are washed and sliced into thin strips called cossettes. The cossettes go through a large tank called a diffuser where raw sugar juice is extracted. The cossettes are gently lifted from the bottom to the top of the diffuser as hot water washes over them absorbing the sugar. After the sugar-laden raw juice is drawn off, the beet pulp is left behind. This pulp is processed separately and sold for livestock feed and other products. The raw juice is mingled with milk of lime and carbon dioxide gas in carbonation tanks. The carbon dioxide bubbles through the mixture forming calcium carbonate. The non-sugar particles attach themselves to the calcium carbonate and settle to the bottom of the tanks. The juice is then filtered, leaving a golden light brown clarified thin juice. This juice is boiled under vacuum where much of the water is evaporated, forming a thicker juice similar to pancake syrup. After a second filtration to ensure that all non-sugar materials are removed, the juice goes to the boiling pans. Once again the juice is boiled under vacuum and crystals begin to form. The resulting sugar crystal and syrup mix is called massecuite. Clean hot water is used to wash the sugar, producing pure white sugar crystals. The damp crystals are dried with filtered air in a rotating drum granulator and the dried sugar passes over screens which separate the various sizes of sugar crystals. The sugar goes through a curing process and is then moved to package stations and bulk loading silos and shipped by truck or rail car to food manufacturers in the U.S. Operational and Occupational Safety Products Employee Email

Employee Email Contact Us JOIN OUR TEAM OUR COMPANY GROWING & PROCESSING LINKS CAREERS Home Join Our Team Careers Join Our Team Careers Current Openings Our Workplace Pay & Benefits Our Company Growing & Processing Links Careers Search Openings Sidney Sugars Incorporated has a variety of career opportunities from factory operating positions to skilled professionals; engineers to accountants; technicians to supervisors and managers. Our employees have a wide range of educational backgrounds, some with high school diplomas others with post-secondary graduate degrees. We offer experiences to contribute and grow – both professionally and personally. Employee Email

Employee Email Contact Us JOIN OUR TEAM OUR COMPANY GROWING & PROCESSING LINKS SUGAR ASSOCIATIONS Home Links Sugar Associations Join Our Team Our Company Growing & Processing Links Sugar Associations Ag & Government Publications Research Sugar Associations American Sugar Alliance Beet Sugar Development Foundation Minn-Dak Farmers Coop Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Sugar Knowledge International The Sugar Association, Inc Employee Email