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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 it 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 cane, or beet sugar factories and
refineries of almost any configuration. It is used by
sugar companies, in more than twenty (20) countries 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
today.
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