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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
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).
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.
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.
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.
Visual Factory Techniques Keep Plant Humming
There are four sugar packaging production lines at Imperial Sugar’s cane sugar refinery at Gramercy, La., being run over three eight-hour shifts by 12 different operators – each with a quota to fill. Every minute used to make a changeover or reset costs hundreds of bags of sugar in lost production.
New Refinery Continues Sugar Town’s Legacy
When David Reynaud steps outside his office at the News Examiner in Lutcher, Louisiana, to catch a quick smoke, he can hear the sound of massive steel pilings being driven into the ground. That sound is coming from the new sugar refinery being constructed in the neighboring town of Gramercy.
Groundbreaking Set for Large, New Sugar Refinery
Even as heavy machinery and workers are doing preliminary work, construction officially gets underway Wednesday, February 3, in Gramercy, Louisiana, on what will become one of the largest capacity sugar refineries in the United States.
Construction Underway on LSR Refinery
The first signs of construction for a new state-of-the-art cane sugar refinery in Gramercy, Louisiana, are beginning to appear as tractors clear a seven-acre parcel of land and a chain link fence goes up around the building site.
Thanksgiving in a Basket
Each year for the last 40 years, Imperial Sugar Company has donated baskets full of Thanksgiving goodies to the needy. This year was no exception, as a small team of employees from Imperial’s sugar refining facility in Gramercy, La., put together 100 baskets for this Thanksgiving holiday.
American Crystal Sugar Tours Gramercy Refinery
Continuing its commitment to sharing industry-wide safety practices in the sugar refining process, Imperial Sugar recently welcomed visiting executives from Minnesota-based American Crystal Sugar Company to Imperial’s Gramercy cane sugar refinery, 35 miles northwest of New Orleans.
Imperial, Cargill Discuss New Refinery
Neil Merrett of FoodNavigator.com reports that Imperial Sugar Company has entered into talks with Cargill and the Sugar Growers & Refiners group that could lead to building a state-of-the-art sugar refinery adjacent to one of Imperial’s existing plants in Gramercy, Louisiana.
Rains Don’t Dampen Gramercy Family Day Picnic
Continuing a company tradition stretching back at least 40 years, Imperial Sugar’s Gramercy Refinery in Louisiana hosted Family Day Picnic on October 4th, welcoming nearly 200 employees, retirees and contractors to the annual event at Lutcher Park.
Gramercy Plant Manager Prepares For Change
Growing up in South Georgia, Raylene Carter never knew how the Dixie Crystals sugar was made before it came to her family’s table. But today as the Gramercy Plant Manager, she sees the process up close – and she likes what she sees.