The Sidney Sugars Incorporated factory has served the Sidney area since 1925, providing an outlet for farmers to grow and sell sugarbeets. In 2002, American Crystal bought the Sidney factory from Holly Sugar and the Sidney factory became part of the American Crystal Company and took the name Sidney Sugars. Sidney Sugars operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of American Crystal Sugar Company.
Each year Sidney Sugars contracts sugarbeet acres with area growers. Not only does this allow producers to grow a high value crop but it also provides employment at the factory and at the six beet receiving stations located from Powder River to Culbertson. The company generally employs approximately 60 seasonal workers for the beet receiving stations during harvest each year and hires approximately 120 seasonal employees to work at the factory during the winter months where they produce white sugar for sale around the country. Winter campaigns generally last about four months.
Sidney Sugars has 90 year round employees and has 120 sugarbeet growers.
The company also produces approximately 50,000 tons of pressed pulp each year and 35,000 tons of molasses for sale.
Since 1996, Sidney Sugars has done a lot of renovating to improve sugar production and efficiency. These renovations and additions include ten sugar storage silos, a thick juice tank, lime kiln and slacker modification, and boiler house modification.
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