Trucks Take the Sugar to Get Packaged and Refined
From the dryer the sugar is poured into a large holding bin. This bin sits on stilts and trucks can drive under it. As seen here, a Zillo truck is in place receiving sugar. It takes only a few minutes to fill a truck this size. This particular truck is taking the sugar to the Zillo packaging plant. Another truck waits behind. You may notice the sugar on the ground. This is cleaned often.
At the next stage, the dried granulated sugar passes over screens to separate the various sizes of sugar crystals. Large and small crystals are packaged for standard consumer use and according to the specifications of industrial customers.
And that, my friend, is how sugar is made. Cane sugar, anyway.
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So there you have it. I was really impressed with the Barra Grande Refinery. It was informative to see how sugar cane is turned into sugar right before our eyes. We appreciate the people at Barra Grande, the former mayor of Lencois Paulista for helping set the tour up, and Senhor Ari Luz for driving us to and from the site.
Thank you for joining me on the Internet's first on-line sugar refinery tour, online since November 1995.
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