Reliability through experience
FONTENOY Sugar Factory, Belgium
1992
New highly efficient factory, processing 7,500 tons beet per day
The plant was built with a minimal investment budget, re-using equipment from two smaller sugar plants that closed down
Customer
FONTENOY SUGAR FACTORY
General contractor
Fontenoy Sugar Factory
Detailed engineering:
De Smet Engineers & Contractors
Scope of works
Detailed design
Industrial operation
1992
Plant capacity
7,500 tons beet per day – Sugar : CEE n° 1
Processing units
- Beet yard: Completely automated
- Diffuser: Tower
- Pulp dryer: Low calorific unit
- Evaporation: Falling film
- Crystallisation: 3.5 strikes
- Sugar dryer: Fluidized bed
- Sugar silo: Vertical, metallic type