Bundaberg Sugar is a company involved in all aspects of

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manufacture, including growing and milling the

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and refining and marketing the sugar. It operates principally in the

Bundaberg Region The Bundaberg Region is a local government area in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, the state capital. It is centred on the city of Bundaberg, and also contains a significant rural area surroundin ...

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, Australia. As at 2014, the company had over of

plantations.

History

Bundaberg Sugar Company Limited was created in 1972 from the merger of the Fairymead Sugar Company Limited and Gibson & Howes Limited. Through these, the company can trace its history back to 1870 when the

Fairymead Sugar Plantation Fairymead Sugar Plantation was a sugar plantation in Fairymead, Queensland, Fairymead, Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. It was established by Ernest Young together with his father Henry and brothers Arthur, and Horace. It was one of Bunda ...

was first established. In 2000, Bundaberg was acquired by the Belgian holding company Finasucre. In 2013, the company entered into an agreement with Pacific Gold Macadamias to purchase its waste product, approximately 2,000 tonnes of macadamia nut shells each year, which will be burned as a fuel to process the

bagasse Bagasse ( ) is the dry pulpy fibrous material that remains after crushing sugarcane or sorghum stalks to extract their juice. It is used as a biofuel for the production of heat, energy, and electricity, and in the manufacture of pulp and building ...

(the waste product of sugar milling) into

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. In 2014, the company purchased 14 new water irrigators which use 50% less power than the older style and are expected to increase sugarcane yields by 5–10%. The Bingera sugar mill was closed in 2020.

Sugar mills

As of 2022 Only one mill remains in operation. * Millaquin mill at

East Bundaberg Bundaberg East is a suburb of Bundaberg in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Bundaberg East had a population of 2,839 people. History A Government land sale of eighty allotments was advertised for auction by W. E. Curtis o ...

Formerly they had other mills operating in the region: * Qunaba Mill * Fairymead Mill * Bingera mill at

South Kolan South Kolan is a rural locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of South Kolan had a population of 1,258 people. Geography The South Kolan region is in the Wide Bay–Burnett region, north of the state ...

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External links

* {{Cite web, url=http://www.bundysugar.com.au/files/Bundaberg%20Sugar_corp%20brochure_June%2008.pdf, title=Bundaberg Sugar, date=June 2008, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112030632/http://www.bundysugar.com.au/files/Bundaberg%20Sugar_corp%20brochure_June%2008.pdf, archive-date=12 November 2018, url-status=live, access-date=12 November 2018 1870 establishments in Australia Sugar companies of Australia Sugar mills in Queensland Sugar plantations in Australia Bundaberg

History

Sugar mills

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