The C&H Company House

The house, built by the California and Hawaiian Sugar Company in 1917, still exists but now is owned and occupied different owners. The home and the grounds have been completly renovated and remodeled by the new owners but still stands in a location overlooking Crolona Heights. The full story of the company house can be read in the Crockett Museum and Historical Society. Crockett writer and historian Diane Botini Thomas wrote about it in the Fall 1993 issue of the Alexander & Baldwin AMP&RSAND.

Dates to Remember About Crockett and C & H Sugar

For over 100 years the connections among Crockett, Hawaii and C & H Sugar have been intense and ought to be remembered. Some of them are:
1897 - Nov. 30, George McNear with Hawaiian and Calif. businessmen purchased the Edwards Ranch
1899 - June 14, the name of the firm changed from California Beet Sugar and Refining Co changed to California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company.
1906 - The first year sugar was produced - 74,000 tons - by the C & H Refining Company

In 2011 C & H is producing as much, or more, sugar as ever. The ownership of the company is different but the C&H building still attracts visitors to our town and we show visitors the C&H waterfront. With 100 plus truckloads of sugar in and out every day, Crockett still maintains a strong relationship. So stay tuned for more blogs about the towns major product.

Crockett Museum Hilights

The Crockett Museum and Historical Society has 55 annual members, 133 Life members and 26 Crockett Rocket members. "Crockett Rocket" is a special life membership for people under 18 years of age. They are folks how may be around to celebrate the 200th birthday of Crockett in 2081. We hope to see a significant increase in annual membership durinh 2011. Annual membership for a single individual is $10; for a family it is $15 and Life membership for an individual is $125. Crockett Rocket membership is $100.

Admission is free so come and spend several hours admiring a world record sturgeon or a really big wasp nest. Among our collections you will find the telephone switchboard used when we all had 2 or 3 diget phone numbers and an operator asked "number please" and then connected you. If you or a relative attended John Swett High School we have the class pictures for almost every year.

TOWN WIDE YARD SALE

Each year dozens of homes have a yard sale on the same day. This year it will be on Saturday, May 14 from 8 am to 4 pm. The event is sponsored by our chamber of commerce and is a chance to convert stuff in our garage into cash. I suspect some of that cash goes to buying other peoples junk to sell next year. As you drive into town you will have an opportunity to purchase a map of yard sale locations. In your search you will drive by the Crockett Museum in the old SP depot at Loring and Rolph. Stop and explore some of the artifacts that made it to the Museum before leaving town in the yard sales.

C&H Now Part of the World's Largest

Who would have guessed a few years ago that C&H would be part of the world's premier cane sugar refinery. With the acquisition of Tate and Lyle (world's oldest) by ASR (owned by Florida Crystal), C&H provides a dream world for someone who dwells in the milieu of local Crockett history.

American Sugar Refining to Acquire Tate & Lyle's European Sugar Operations

YONKERS, N.Y., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- American Sugar Refining (ASR), North America's largest cane sugar refiner, signed an agreement to acquire Tate & Lyle PLC's European cane sugar operations.

Tate & Lyle is the leading cane sugar producer in the European Union. The acquisition of its refineries in London, England, and Lisbon, Portugal, increases ASR's total refining capacity to six million metric tons per year. The 211 million pounds Sterling ($318 million) acquisition includes a license for use of the distinguished Tate & Lyle brand in connection with the sale of sugar.

Price of Pot Will Rise

Man arrested after pot grow found in burning houseBy Karl FischerWest County TimesArticle Launched: 05/22/2008 04:18:15 PM PDT

Authorities clearing 300 marijuana plants out of a burned house in Crockett ran into the tenant Thursday morning, resulting in an arrest and the confiscation of a new, 30-foot stretch limousine.
The Crockett Carquinez Fire District answered a house fire call about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday on the first block of Rolph Park Drive. Firefighters found the house burning, Contra Costa sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee said.
While extinguishing the blaze, they also found some marijuana plants growing inside and summoned deputies, who found that most of the house had been converted into an indoor growing facility. Deputies found about 200 growing plants and about 100 more being processed and prepared for sale.
On Thursday morning, while deputies documented and bagged the contraband, a 30-foot stretch limo with paper plates rolled up to the house, Lee said.
The driver and tenant of the house, 31-year-old Casey Saul, approached and, after deputies identified him as the cultivator of the drugs, was taken County Jail in Martinez, Lee said.
He remained there Thursday evening in lieu of $120,000 bail, arrested on suspicion of cultivating marijuana for sale, possessing drugs and theft of a utility, as the operation's electrical hookups bypassed the meter.
Deputies confiscated the car, Lee said.
Reach Karl Fischer at 510-262-2728 or kfischer@bayareanewsgroup.com.

Georgia Sugar Refinery Explosion

Folks around town are naturally interested about whether a similar explosion has ever occured or might happen at C & H. So far, sometime in the 1960's there was an explosion/fire above the powder mill.

FANJUL Will own the world

Now anyone employed by C&H can say, almost, that they work for the world's biggest sugar refining organization.

YONKERS, N.Y., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- American Sugar Refining, Inc., based in
Yonkers, New York, today announced that it completed the acquisition of Ingenio
San Nicolas S.A. de C.V. San Nicolas owns and operates a sugar mill and refinery
in Veracruz, Mexico that produces 75,000 tons of superior quality refined sugar.

Luis J. Fernandez, Co-President of American Sugar commented that "this acquisition is an extension of our strategy to be the premier sugar producer and supplier in North America, as evidenced by our recent acquisitions of Redpath Sugar in Canada and C&H Sugar in California. Our goal is to effectively service our multinational customers whose operations span all of North America. This acquisition furthers our strategy to seamlessly provide our customers with quality sugar products and excellent customer service throughout Canada, the United States and Mexico."

Antonio L. Contreras, Jr., Co-President of American Sugar said, "This acquisition is particularly significant now that the Mexican and United States sweetener markets will merge under the North American Free Trade Agreement effective January 1, 2008. The sugar industry is an important part of the Mexican economy and will play a significant role in the combined U.S. - Mexico sugar market."

American Sugar Refining is owned by Florida Crystals Corporation and Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida. Florida Crystals is a subsidiary of Flo-Sun Incorporated, a Fanjul Family company, and Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative is an agricultural cooperative owned by 50 sugar cane farmers. American Sugar Refining owns six sugar refineries in the United States, Canada, and Mexico that collectively
produce over four million tons of refined sugar for sale to the industrial, food
service and retail markets. Its products are sold throughout the United States
under the leading Domino and C&H brands and in Canada under the Redpath
brand.
CONTACT:
Donald
Brainard
914-709-8010

Source: American Sugar Refining, Inc.

CANE the TV Series

Personally, I hoped the series would closely follow the Fanjul family history. It is more interesting than any Hollywood script. (keitho in crockett)


Fanjul lawyers will not sue CBS … for now
Published Sat August 11, 2007 by Publisher in Hispanics.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(original title: Whew! It’s not about us, Fanjuls says of CBS’s Cane TV show)
By SUSAN SALISBURY Palm Beach Post

American Sugar Expands

Little by little, American Sugar Refining gains more control over the American sweetner market.

Chr Hansen continues refocus activities with US sale: "The company's global refocusing strategy has involved a number of divestitures and investments in recent years. In 2006, Chr Hansen sold its specialty sweetener division to American Sugar Refining, saying that sweeteners were not within its core product areas. The transaction included the specialty sweetener product line of molasses, malt, rice syrup, oat extract, honey, and invert and fondant sugar, as well as production facilities in Louisiana and Illinois. "

Ethonol from Phillipeans

As ethonol demand grows it becomes profitable to increase sugarcane acerage in various parts of the world. Still in the longrun, the required investment in sugar mills, may eventually need to go dark or to process sugar again when a better source of ethonol is found. In the meantime


"Quezon City (1 September) -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) has already validated a total of 60,250 hectares of new sugarcane areas that can produce a combined 274 million liters of bioethanol, which is more than enough to meet the requirement under the Biofuels Act on the blending of crop-based alternative fuels with gasoline by 2009. "

The Waterfront That Sugar Built

The Waterfront That Sugar Built

This article provides a good summary of sugar refining in New York. People like me, living in the shadow of the massive C & H Refinery, should read it with the knowledge that the C & H brand and the Domino brand are now owned by the same company.

The Havemeyer family began refining sugar in Manhattan in 1805. Many of the
firms that made up Brooklyn's industrial waterfront originated in Manhattan, and
moved across the river when they needed more and cheaper space. Frederick
Havemeyer and his brother William, the once and future mayor of New York City,
moved the family business to Williamsburg in 1857. The firm became Havemeyer
& Elder in 1863, when Frederick's son-in-law, Joseph Elder, joined. The firm
eventually passed to Frederick's son, Henry Osborne Havemeyer, who became, in
effect, the John D. Rockefeller of sugar, forming the Sugar Trust and becoming
the most powerful person in the global sugar trade. The plant on the
Williamsburg shore served as Henry's flagship. Before the federal government
broke up the Sugar Trust in 1922, New York City had refined as much as 70% of
the raw sugar in America.
Domino's closing in 2004 meant that 2005 was the
first year in 275 years that no sugar refinery operated within the present
boundaries of New York City.
With the trust, the Havemeyer & Elder name
disappeared. The company became American Sugar Refining in 1891, and registered
Domino as a trade name in 1902. In 1970, American Sugar became Amstar, then
Domino Sugar Corp. in 1988, and in 2001 American Sugar once again.

Cane Sugar Coke at Costco SF - San Francisco Bay Area - Chowhound

There was the day that Coke was a major customer of C and H Sugar.



Cane Sugar Coke at Costco SF - San Francisco Bay Area - Chowhound: "Cane Sugar Coke at Costco SF Yesterday, I bought a case of 24 glass bottles of Coke bottled in Mexico at the Costco at 10th and Harrison in SF. There was a sign posted with the Coke that said that it was made with pure cane sugar, not high fructose corn syrup. I haven't tried it yet, because I'm letting the bottles chill in the fridge. I'll report back when I taste it. --NancyB Permalink Reply Nancy Berry May 01, 2007 06:31PM "