Welcome to Proserpine Sugar
Proserpine Sugar was established in 1897; it is located in the sugar town of Proserpine which is the gateway to the Whitsundays, 74 islands located in the centre of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The mill is owned and run by the Proserpine Co-operative Sugar Milling Association Limited and produces raw sugar, blackstrap molasses and “Green” electricity all from renewable sugar cane.
Proserpine produces Furfural
Proserpine Sugar commissioned the digestors in November 2009 producing furfural from bagasse.
The plant which is highly automated worked well. Due to important maintenance tasks on the sugar mill boilers optimisation of the process and commissioning of the distillation will have to wait until cane crushing resumes next June.
Learn about furfural
Furfural is a liquid chemical that is produced from the hemi-cellulose fraction of vegetable matter. The current world demand for furfural is about 230,000 tonnes pa. Using current production techniques up to 17,000 t of furfural can be produced from one ...
read more...Proserpine Sugar safety
With Proserpine Sugar situated on the edge of town it is very important that the furfural plant poses negligible danger to the community. It has been shown that the risk posed by the furfural plant easily meets Queensland guidelines for land use ...
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