2011
SK7955 : Newark Sugar Factory
taken 12 years ago, near to Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England
Newark Sugar Factory
One of four British Sugar factories in eastern England processing sugar beet for sugar, animal feed, molasses, soil conditioner and other products. The Newark site is also a packaging plant for Silver Spoon.
The harvest and processing of the beet is known as 'the campaign', reflecting the organization required to deliver the crop at a steady rate to processing factories like this one. Beet is harvested in the autumn and can be stored in clamps for some time before delivery, so at this time of year the factory runs 24 hours a day and a steady stream of lorries arrive at the gate at a rate just enough to keep it fed to capacity.
A serious amount of water is drawn from the nearby river and gravel pit ponds to drive the hot water and steam-based refining processes. Gas and coal-fired driers produce the steam plume from the stack.
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