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Eliminating the “Overfill” from Each Bag of Sugar
Packaging Team Manager William McGhee receives a “statement of yield” every month, which tells him how much sugar the Port Wentworth refinery has produced and how much it should have produced – based on the raw sugar the refinery started with.
Process Improvement Boosts Sugar Production
Significant returns are beginning to flow as Imperial Sugar Company continues its process improvement strategy at its sugar refinery in Gramercy, Louisiana. Most recently, the focus was on white sugar refining.
DMAIC Team Takes Aim at Improving Sugar Color, Boosting Production
When honey-toned, raw sugar arrives at Imperial Sugar’s Port Wentworth refinery, it’s already 97 percent pure. Transforming it into pure, snow-white sugar requires taking out that last 3 percent of impurities.
Sugar Packaging Ramps up at Gramercy Refinery
Every day for the last seven weeks a full-time team of employees at Imperial Sugar Company’s sugar refinery in Gramercy, La., has come together to improve its packaging process. Result: increased line speed and throughput in some areas by up to 25 percent, with a 40 percent reduction of sugar losses.