1\/ A member of the Chenopodiaceae family, sugar beet is a plant that, along with sugarcane, constitutes one of the two main sources of sucrose<\/b> worldwide.<\/p>\n
2\/ The sugar from sugar beet was first extracted in 1811 by the French chemist<\/b>, Jean-Baptiste Qu\u00e9ruel. Napoleon I had encouraged this research following a blockade of the British navy that cut the French Empire and Europe off from sugarcane resources from the Caribbean.<\/p>\n
3\/ In moderate climate zones, seeds are sown in March<\/b> and the harvest<\/b>, otherwise referred to as the campaign, begins in September<\/b>. The sugar beet are then washed, cut and passed through hot water.<\/p>\n
4\/ Sugar is stored in the root of the plant<\/b>. Its concentrated juice forms a syrup which is purified and filtered<\/b>, with a sugar content of 65%<\/b>. It is then boiled under vacuum to be crystallized. The sugar from sugar beet is naturally white<\/b>.<\/p>\n
5\/ Tereos also uses this raw material to manufacture conventional bioethanol <\/b>produced from sugar<\/b> beet juice<\/b>. On average, one metric ton of sugar beet produces 90 to 100 liters of alcohol. Each year, Tereos also produces more than 2 million tons of sugar, and 675,000 m<\/b>3<\/b> of alcohol and ethanol<\/b>.<\/p>\n
6\/ Sugar beet may also be used for animal feed<\/b>: the fibers<\/b> resulting from juice extraction, called pulp<\/b>, are used as a food for livestock.<\/p>\n
7\/ Thanks to a methanization<\/b> process, sugar beet\u2019s transformation also fuels the boilers through biogas<\/b> (a gas produced from fermenting organic materials in the absence of oxygen) and vinasses<\/b> (residue from the distillation of alcoholic liquid). These transformations decrease the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere, and facilitate significant energy savings<\/b>.<\/p>\n
8\/ Sugar beet is 72% water<\/b>. Tereos makes maximum use of this, by reintroducing it during the sugar production process, as well as the natural environment, in particular through the process of fertigation<\/b>.<\/p>\n
9\/ France is the world\u2019s leading producer of sugar beet sugar. The average yield for sugar beet is around 1.3 kg of sugar per square meter <\/b>of crop.<\/p>\n
10\/ Over 20 million tons of sugar beet have been transformed by Tereos for the first post-quotas campaign (2017-18)<\/b>, an increase of 30% compared to the previous year. The Group holds the record for the longest campaign of French sugar factories.<\/p>\n"}],"flexible_editorial_clone":{"has_anchors":false,"sections":[{"acf_fc_layout":"rich_text","anchor_title":"","text":"
1\/ A member of the Chenopodiaceae family, sugar beet is a plant that, along with sugarcane, constitutes one of the two main sources of sucrose<\/b> worldwide.<\/p>\n
2\/ The sugar from sugar beet was first extracted in 1811 by the French chemist<\/b>, Jean-Baptiste Qu\u00e9ruel. Napoleon I had encouraged this research following a blockade of the British navy that cut the French Empire and Europe off from sugarcane resources from the Caribbean.<\/p>\n
3\/ In moderate climate zones, seeds are sown in March<\/b> and the harvest<\/b>, otherwise referred to as the campaign, begins in September<\/b>. The sugar beet are then washed, cut and passed through hot water.<\/p>\n
4\/ Sugar is stored in the root of the plant<\/b>. Its concentrated juice forms a syrup which is purified and filtered<\/b>, with a sugar content of 65%<\/b>. It is then boiled under vacuum to be crystallized. The sugar from sugar beet is naturally white<\/b>.<\/p>\n
5\/ Tereos also uses this raw material to manufacture conventional bioethanol <\/b>produced from sugar<\/b> beet juice<\/b>. On average, one metric ton of sugar beet produces 90 to 100 liters of alcohol. Each year, Tereos also produces more than 2 million tons of sugar, and 675,000 m<\/b>3<\/b> of alcohol and ethanol<\/b>.<\/p>\n
6\/ Sugar beet may also be used for animal feed<\/b>: the fibers<\/b> resulting from juice extraction, called pulp<\/b>, are used as a food for livestock.<\/p>\n
7\/ Thanks to a methanization<\/b> process, sugar beet\u2019s transformation also fuels the boilers through biogas<\/b> (a gas produced from fermenting organic materials in the absence of oxygen) and vinasses<\/b> (residue from the distillation of alcoholic liquid). These transformations decrease the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere, and facilitate significant energy savings<\/b>.<\/p>\n
8\/ Sugar beet is 72% water<\/b>. Tereos makes maximum use of this, by reintroducing it during the sugar production process, as well as the natural environment, in particular through the process of fertigation<\/b>.<\/p>\n
9\/ France is the world\u2019s leading producer of sugar beet sugar. The average yield for sugar beet is around 1.3 kg of sugar per square meter <\/b>of crop.<\/p>\n
10\/ Over 20 million tons of sugar beet have been transformed by Tereos for the first post-quotas campaign (2017-18)<\/b>, an increase of 30% compared to the previous year. The Group holds the record for the longest campaign of French sugar factories.<\/p>\n"}]}},"yoast_head":"\n