American Sugar Refining, Inc. is a large privately held

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company, with a production capacity of 6.5 million tons of sugar. The company produces a full line of consumer, industrial, food service, and specialty

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products. In 2013, it adopted the corporate brand name ASR Group. Its ownership structure is based on a partnership which includes the Florida Crystals Corporation, part of FLO-SUN, a sugar empire of the

Fanjul brothers The Fanjul brothers—Cuban born Alfonso "Alfy" Fanjul Jr., José "Pepe" Fanjul, Alexander Fanjul, and Andres Fanjul—are owners of Fanjul Corp., a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and the Dominican Republic. It co ...

whose origins go back to Spanish-Cuban sugar plantations of the early 19th century.

Activities

Across

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, American Sugar Refining owns and operates six

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refineries as well as specialty sweetener production facilities and a strategic warehousing and distribution system that combine to provide seamless production and delivery of its products to customers across the

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, and

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. The refineries are located in: *

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* Chalmette,

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– This plant celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2009. *

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) *

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Redpath Sugar Redpath Sugar Ltd. (french: Sucre Redpath Ltée) is a Canadian sugar refining company that was established in 1854 and the first refining cane sugar in Montreal, Quebec. Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario (with an additional packaging plant in Bell ...

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Former refineries were located in: *

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Domino Sugar Refinery The Domino Sugar Refinery is a mixed-use development and former sugar refinery in the neighborhood of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York City, along the East River. When active as a refinery, it was operated by the Havemeyer family's Ame ...

) (the original) *

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(1958–?) American Sugar Refining, Inc. and the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida acquired Domino Sugar from

Tate & Lyle Tate & Lyle PLC is a British-headquartered, global supplier of food and beverage ingredients to industrial markets. It was originally a sugar refining business, but from the 1970s it began to diversify, eventually divesting its sugar business i ...

for $180 million on November 6, 2001. American Sugar Refining also owns two of its former major competitors, the

(C&H Sugar), purchased in 2005, and Jack Frost (National Sugar Company) in 2007.

, Tate & Lyle's European sugar operations, was acquired in 2010. In

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, the company owns and operates sugar refineries in

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and

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, formerly owned by Tate & Lyle. The company is also the majority shareholder of Belize Sugar Industries, the only sugar mill in Belize. TateLylePlantSilvertown

American Sugar Refining is owned by Florida Crystals Corporation (based in

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) and the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida (

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). American Sugar Refining's main competitor in the United States for refined cane sugar is

Imperial Sugar Imperial Sugar is a major U.S. sugar producer and marketer based in Sugar Land, Texas, with sugar refinery operations in California, Georgia, and Louisiana. The company was established in 1843 and has undergone ownership changes multip ...

Lyle's Golden Syrup

American Sugar Refining now produces and sells Lyle's Golden Syrup, a brand of golden syrup. According to a news report, the

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has concluded that the design of the Lyle's Golden Syrup tin, which has remained almost unchanged since 1885, forms Britain's oldest brand.

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External links

Domino®

C&H®

Florida Crystals®

Redpath®

Homepage of Florida Crystals Corporation

Homepage of Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida
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