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| CLOSE-UP | Tomasz Soliwodzki has been Director of the Chełmża plant and sugar refinery since 2004. The factory has been running a raw sugar campaign every year since 2008. Two in one The Chełmża plant runs a sugar beet and raw sugar campaign every year The Dvadesetprvi Maj lies shining with its red hull and the four white loading cranes in the port of Gdynia. The bulk carrier from Africa took about three weeks to get to the Baltic port to north of Gdansk. It will take nine days for the raw sugar in the port to be completely unloaded, after which the carrier can depart on a new trip. The raw cane sugar is destined for the Chełmża refinery. A visit to <strong>Nordzucker</strong> Polska and the Chełmża site: “When we equipped the Chełmża sugar factory to produce sugar from beet as well as refine raw cane sugar in 2008, we were the first sugar refinery in Poland. Today there is a second and it belongs to a competitor,” explains Tomasz Soliwodzki, Director of the Chełmża plant and refinery. Between spring and summer, the refinery turns raw sugar into white sugar for around two months. The sugar comes from Central America, South America or Africa. “The sugar is brought to us by truck. They reverse up the ramp and unload. The sugar is brought to the warehouse by a screw conveyor and conveyor belts,” continues Tomasz Soliwodzki. We enter the factory’s raw sugar warehouse. Around 4,000 tonnes of raw sugar can be stored here. During our visit, there is only a small amount of raw sugar in the warehouse. A wheel loader tips the brown raw sugar, which resembles sand from a distance, though coarse grating onto large piles. Conveyor belts located below take the sugar to the first stage of the refining process: “The sugar we receive needs to be cleaned before it can be processed. In the affination mash stage, which we rebuilt in 2008, the sugar crystals are washed and then spun in the affination centrifuges to separate them from non-sugar substances. This is the first stage of cleaning,” says Kazimierz Kuśmierek, who led the conversion from “conventional” sugar factory to combined factory as production engineer. This produces the syrup, which is then purified and filtered before being decolourised. Decolourisation plays a critical role in the refining of raw sugar: a special resin absorbs the colouring. The syrup is then concentrated, filtered and crystallised. The decolourisation station in Chełmża is one of only a few in Europe. We continue on through the refinery and Kazimierz Kuśmierek explains: “The real difference between refining and campaign operation is that white sugar is produced simultaneously at three stages during refining in our plant. At the same time, three additional products are created, known as recoveries, which need to be processed again. They are dissolved and boiled a second time until white sugar has formed. In contrast, we receive one product during the beet campaign, white sugar, and two products that need to be dissolved and processed again at the same time.” The plant runs a beet campaign every year in the autumn and winter, and processes the beet of local farmers just like other <strong>Nordzucker</strong> plants. The time between the end of the beet campaign and raw sugar refining is short and the window for the necessary conversion work is correspondingly small: “In order for the factory to become a refinery, flow paths between the different pieces of equipment have to be changed. This involves resetting various flaps differently and recalibrating around 200 dummy discs,” explains Tomasz Soliwodzki. nt 20
Everything under control: whether in the midst of raw sugar refining or a beet campaign – the control centre monitors every stage of production. Are the colour values correct? Quality controls are carried out in the laboratory. Chełmża is approximately 20 kilometres away from Toruń. Beet was first processed here in 1882. During the campaign, around 70 trucks bring their raw sugar to the factory every day. Raw cane sugar from Africa Ships carrying raw sugar arrive at the port in Gdynia in order to supply the refinery with sugar for its two-month-long refining campaign.. Automated At the service centre in Chełmża, 1 kg packs, 25 kg sacks and big bags of up to 1,000 kg are filled. The service centre’s performance was expanded and optimised with the addition of the third palletising robot in 2012. Akzente July 2013 21
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