Sugar News

Prospects for Sugar Bulk Handling in the Philippines
Rosales, H.R.  1955.  The paper describes briefly the bulk handling installations in Hawaii, Sto. Domingo, Puerto Rico as well as some refineries in the U.S. equipped to receive sugar shipments in bulk. Presented also are problems to be considered in bulk handling installation for raw sugar, such problems are economic…

Philippine Bagasse for High Grade Pulp and Specialty Paper
Villareal, E.P.  1955.  The article aims to present the latest developments on the utilization of bagasse for the manufacture of high grade pulp for specialty papers. It also attempts to show that a pulp and paper industry could be developed using Philippine bagasse as the principal raw material. Philippine Bagasse for…

Paper Pulp from Philippine Bagasse
Oliveros, S.B.  1955.  The paper reports the bleached cellulose pulp that can enter into the market for bleached sulphite pulp. It gives an appraisal of the market, a statement of the process and an estimate of capital structure and production cost. Paper Pulp from Philippine Bagasse. Sugar News 31:170-171.

New Uses for Sugar and By-Products
---------------.  1955.  Important developments in the use of sugar and its by-products have been reported recently by the Sugar Research Foundation of New York. These includes itaconic acid which can now be produced by a new process through the action of a mold on sugar, synthetic detergents, poultry feeds, pesticides, plasticizer, baby…

Effect of Delay in Grinding on Value and Processing Quality of Sugarcane Juice
Guilbeau, W.F. and Martin, L.F.  1955.  The magnitude of the loss resulting from delay in delivery of harvested cane to the mills has been determined by experiments on the pilot plant milling and processing of 2 ton samples taken at intervals of 1,3,9 and 14 days from six different large lots of…