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Sugars
International LLC
Sugars
International LLC began operations in November 1984 and development of
the Sugars™ Computer Program began in January of 1985. The
program was first used in 1985 to calculate the heat and material
balance and to evaluate a sucrose separator for molasses desugarization
at the Twin Falls beet sugar factory owned by the Amalgamated Sugar
Company. The first copies of the program were licensed to
Spreckels Sugar Company in May of 1986 and American Crystal Sugar
Company in July of 1986. Other sugar companies began licensing it
in 1987. The program was called PC-SUGARS at the time. The
earliest versions of the program did not include integration of the
evaporator balance into a model. With the release of version 2.20
on July 1, 1988, a completely integrated model of a sugar factory was
possible for the first time, and the first models of complete beet sugar
factories were built in July of 1988. The name of the program was
simplified to Sugars when version 2.22 was released in November of 1988.
In December of 1998, the new Sugars for Windows version of Sugars was
introduced for the Microsoft Windows 95, 98 and NT 32 bit operating
systems. The Windows version incorporated a full graphical
interface for building models using Visio® software as the graphical
diagramming engine. In 1999, Visio Corporation was purchased by
Microsoft and subsequently Visio was integrated into the Microsoft Office
product line.
Many
new features and enhancements have been added to Sugars to expand its
versatility since its introduction in 1986. Today, Sugars can
model beet, or cane sugar factories and refineries of almost any
configuration. Sugar companies in more than thirty
(30) countries have used it to predict how changes in the process and/or equipment
will affect the performance of factories and refineries. The
information from these predictions is used to make investment and
process decisions. Sugars has modeled thousands of process
variations covering both beet and cane and its results have been
verified independently by actual factory data. It is the most
widely used sugar process simulation program in the world.
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