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Gramercy Employees Celebrate 35 Years of Service

Gramercy Employees Celebrate 35 Years of Service

This year, four employees of Imperial Sugar’s packaging facility in Gramercy, La. celebrated a remarkable 35 years of service with the company.

Gramercy Packaging Facility Provides Needed Support to Local Food Pantry

Gramercy Packaging Facility Provides Needed Support to Local Food Pantry

Imperial Sugar Company’s Packaging Facility in Gramercy, La., recently donated a pallet of sugar to the local food pantry operated by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVdP).

Leadership Team at Gramercy Completes OSHA Safety Training

Leadership Team at Gramercy Completes OSHA Safety Training

The leadership team at Imperial Sugar’s Gramercy facility recently completed a safety training class with the goal of fostering an even safer work environment.

Gramercy Employee Forms Group to Help Tornado Victims

Gramercy Employee Forms Group to Help Tornado Victims

Dennis Roper, an operator at Imperial Sugar’s packing facility in Gramercy, has formed a group to travel to Alabama to help rebuild communities torn apart by tornadoes this spring.

New Louisiana Refinery Nearing Completion

New Louisiana Refinery Nearing Completion

Building of the new sugar refinery in Gramercy, La., continues to move forward at a fast pace and activity at the site has increased since LSR took over operations of the existing Imperial Sugar Company plant on January 1.

Imperial Sugar Implements Dense Phase Sugar Conveying System in Louisiana

Imperial Sugar Implements Dense Phase Sugar Conveying System in Louisiana

In preparation for the reopening of its Gramercy, La. refinery, ISC is implementing a dense phase system to convey sugar, dust free, hundreds of feet from its bulk storage area to its packaging facility.

Gramercy Associates Deliver Thanksgiving Meals

Gramercy Associates Deliver Thanksgiving Meals

Recently, team members from Imperial Sugar Company’s Gramercy, La. facility continued a long standing tradition of delivering Thanksgiving food baskets.

Employees Come to Aid of Fellow Worker

Employees Come to Aid of Fellow Worker

When one of their own suffers, employees at Imperial Sugar Company step up and step in. That was the case when Jerry Tolito, a maintenance manager at the company’s sugar refinery in Gramercy, La., was injured in a motorcycle accident and required several pints of blood.

Honing Their Craft On and Off the Job

Honing Their Craft On and Off the Job

Well-tuned engineering skills certainly have their place on the job – as well as in the heat of competitive racing. Just ask master technician Kevin Todd and house engineers Wade Lambert and Onell Lousteau at Gramercy, La.

From Study Hall to Sucrose:  Gaining a Real-World Education

From Study Hall to Sucrose: Gaining a Real-World Education

This summer, for the first time, Imperial Sugar Company (ISC) is offering an internship program that allows six outstanding engineering students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in their field.

Certified in Making the Workplace Safe

Certified in Making the Workplace Safe

“If you boil it down, my role is to make sure that the way the people come into the plant is the way they leave,” says Gonzalez, environmental health and safety (EHS) manager at Imperial Sugar Company’s (ISC) refinery in Gramercy, La., where she’s responsible for the welfare of co-workers on the job.

Union Approves Contract Extension at ISC’s Gramercy Refinery

Union Approves Contract Extension at ISC’s Gramercy Refinery

By an overwhelming majority, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local No. 1167-P recently approved a one-year extension of its contract with the Imperial Sugar Company (ISC).

The Gramercy Brown Sugar DMAIC team included associates

Imperial Team Improves Production of Brown Sugar

What started as a mission to improve throughput on two brown sugar packaging lines, led to a 40 percent improvement in the brown sugar processing area at Imperial Sugar Company’s Gramercy plant.

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Gramercy Sugar Refinery Gets Safety Upgrade

A major safety upgrade is nearing completion at Imperial Sugar Company’s sugar refinery located in Gramercy, Louisiana – one of the oldest sugar refineries in the country.