S.I.T. Conference Attendees Tour Port Wentworth Refinery
isc | May 20, 2010
The 2010 Sugar Industry Technologists (S.I.T.) Conference meeting in Savannah, Ga., wrapped up its sessions with a VIP tour of Imperial Sugar Company’s large, modern cane sugar refinery in nearby Port Wentworth.
S.I.T. members tour Imperial Sugar's production areas with Brian Harrison, VP for Sugar Technology.
S.I.T. was founded nearly 70 years ago as an exchange of scientific and technical information about sugar refining.
The conference group, numbering nearly 200, were all outfitted with steel-toed footwear, hard hats, special protective eyewear and earplugs … much the same garb required for all Imperial Sugar workers … before entering the newly rebuilt sugar production, packaging and warehouse areas.
The tour was hosted by numerous Imperial Sugar associates, including Vice President Brian Harrison, featured close-up look at Imperial Sugar’s high tech and automated sugar packaging and handling systems in operation, made by companies in the U.S., Germany and New Zealand.
Harrison was presented with the S.I.T.’s Crystal Award 2010 for outstanding achievement in sugar technology, a distinction awarded to his father nearly 20 years ago.
