Louisiana Sugar Refining to Create New Refinery at Gramercy

Upon completion in early 2011, LSR will make refined white sugar that will be sold in dry bulk sugar form, in 50-pound bags and totes as well as liquid sugar.

2 Apr 2010 --- Louisiana Sugar Refining, LLC (LSR) has awarded a construction contract to the T.E. Ibberson Company for work at its new sugar refinery currently under construction in Gramercy, Louisiana. LSR will become the newest, and one of the largest capacity sugar refineries in the United States.

“T.E. Ibberson will provide labor, equipment and materials to build the foundations and erect the primary buildings that will house the sugar refinery process,” said Red Geurts, LSR general manager. “They will also be setting the large equipment and tanks in place in the buildings as they are constructing them; we are very excited to have them on board.”

T.E. Ibberson Company is a provider of design and construction services to various industrial industries and has been in business 129 years serving the heavy industrial sector of engineering and construction. Ibberson has an office in LaPlace, La. and has been working in the gulf area for over 50 years. T.E. Ibberson Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Peter Kiewit Corporation of Omaha, NE.

Upon completion in early 2011, LSR will make refined white sugar that will be sold in dry bulk sugar form, in 50-pound bags and totes as well as liquid sugar.

Louisiana Sugar Refining, LLC is a joint venture among Imperial Sugar Co. of Sugarland, TX, Cargill, Incorporated of Minneapolis, MN and Sugar Growers and Refiners, Inc., a cooperative of approximately 700 Louisiana sugar cane growers and raw sugar cane processing mills.