Spinning, Spinning... It Turns White!
This is a centrifuge, a large perforated basket that spins very rapidly much like a washing machine in the spin cycle, where the sugar is spun and dried. The sugar produced at Barra Grande is called "centrifugal sugar".
You can see the white sugar inside the centrifuge, up against the walls. This whole process is automated, and fascinating. This picture is just after the centrifuge door opened, by automation - I might add.
And this gets dumped down another chute. But is it done?