The Michigan Sugar Company is investing more than $65 million into a desugarization facility at its Bay City factory and adding $8 million in new equipment in Caro and Sebewaing to support the expansion.
Michigan Sugar President and CEO Mark Flegenheimer tells Brownfield the process will allow the company to capture 40 percent more sugar from molasses and extract 80 million additional pounds of natural sugar from the same amount of sugarbeets.
“This is really exciting from a sustainability standpoint because we’re not going to plant one additional acre of beets,” he says.
