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.

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 "

Green cane flames

Fire damages 40 acres of sugar cane: "WAIKAPU – An unscheduled fire Thursday night burned about 40 acres of sugar cane in a field along Kuihelani Highway near the Dunes at Maui Lani golf course, officials said.
Kahului Airport tower personnel contacted Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. at 6:45 p.m. with information that field 718 was on fire, according to HC&S harvesting Superintendent Mark Lopes."

This is one of the two plantations providing Hawaiian raw to C & H. It will be interesting to see the impact in Crockett.

"Processing unripened cane produces far less sugar for the same handling expense. Although plantation workers planned to salvage the cane, the premature harvest reduces the quality of the raw sugar, Howe said.
“The impact includes the danger to the community presented by arsons such as this and the disruption to HC&S’ carefully coordinated two-year-long schedule of planting, cultivating, ripening and harvesting the dozens of fields that cross the plantation,” she said.