International Sugar Journal
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A peer reviewed technical trade journal that focuses on providing subscribers with advances in sugar processing, sugar refining and biorenewables.
International Sugar Journal
1y ago
The Sugar Regulatory Board (SRA) has greenlighted the importation of 440,000 tonnes of sugar for 2023, according to local press reports ..read more
International Sugar Journal
1y ago
American Crystal Sugar announced on Feb. 6 that it would close the Montana plant because Montana-Dakota Beet Growers Association farmers were not committing to growing enough sugar beet to sustain operations ..read more
International Sugar Journal
1y ago
The chemical synthesis of the potent anticancer drug Vinblastine poses significant challenges owing to its complex three-dimensional structure. Vinblastine is a heterodimer of the chemical compounds catharanthine and vindoline, and currently available methods for the mass production of vinblastine are both costly and unsustainable ..read more
International Sugar Journal
1y ago
Chemical and consumer goods company Henkel has signed a five-year agreement with Shell Chemical to replace up to 200,000 tonnes of fossil with renewable feedstocks to manufacture its most popular laundry products ..read more
International Sugar Journal
1y ago
Brazil-based Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas and a global market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial scale, is evaluating an investment in producing biobased polypropylene (PP) in the US ..read more
International Sugar Journal
1y ago
British Sugar is mulling imports of beet sugar and cane sugar to make up the shortfall of over a quarter million tonnes forecast for 2022/23 following frost damage to large swathes of crops across England due to cold spells in late December and January ..read more
International Sugar Journal
1y ago
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new approach to cooling – ionocaloric refrigeration ..read more
International Sugar Journal
1y ago
Researchers at INRAE using new plant genome editing techniques have inactivated or modified genomes at specific loci to confer pathogen resistance ..read more
International Sugar Journal
1y ago
Tereos said on February 1 that two Romanian investors would take over the cooperative's loss-making sugar business in the country, which it had planned to close for over a year as part of a broader strategy to reduce debt, reported Reuters ..read more
International Sugar Journal
1y ago
Using ground-breaking methods, researchers at the John Innes Centre and Stanford University have revealed the biosynthetic pathway of these useful molecules, which certain plant families make, including mahogany and citrus ..read more