About Our Sugar Refinery
Our manufacturing operations are centered at our flagship refinery in Nong Rawiang, Phimai District, Nakhon Ratchasima — the heart of Thailand's sugarcane belt in Isaan. The facility integrates raw cane sugar production with multi-stage refining to produce ICUMSA 45 premium white sugar, brown sugar, and specialty grades for export markets. With 500,000 MT/year capacity and over 15,000 partner farmers supplying fresh cane during the November-April harvest season, we offer the scale and reliability international buyers need.
- ✓Location: Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand (sugarcane heartland)
- ✓Refinery capacity: 500,000 MT/year
- ✓Annual export volume: 1+ million MT
- ✓Partner farmers: 15,000+
- ✓Years in operation: 20+
- ✓Facility certifications: ISO 9001:2015, HACCP, GMP, Halal, Kosher
- ✓Sustainability: Zero-waste cane processing, biomass energy generation
Manufacturing Process
Our refining process follows international best practices to ensure consistent ICUMSA 45 quality every shipment:
- ✓Step 1 — Cane harvesting (November-April harvest season)
- ✓Step 2 — Cane crushing and juice extraction
- ✓Step 3 — Juice clarification (lime and phosphoric acid treatment)
- ✓Step 4 — Evaporation (multi-effect vacuum evaporators)
- ✓Step 5 — Crystallization (vacuum pans)
- ✓Step 6 — Centrifugation and washing
- ✓Step 7 — Affination (raw sugar wash)
- ✓Step 8 — Carbonation/phosphatation (decolorization)
- ✓Step 9 — Ion exchange (final purification)
- ✓Step 10 — Drying and packaging
Quality Control
Quality control runs throughout our entire production line. Every batch is tested before packaging and again before shipment:
- ✓Raw material inspection — cane quality, sucrose content (CCS)
- ✓In-process testing — Brix, pH, polarization at each stage
- ✓Final product testing — color (ICUMSA), polarization, moisture, ash
- ✓Microbiological testing — total plate count, yeast, mold, coliform
- ✓Heavy metals testing — arsenic, lead, cadmium per Codex limits
- ✓Pesticide residue screening — multi-residue method
- ✓Foreign material detection — metal detectors and sieving
- ✓Independent verification — SGS, Bureau Veritas, Intertek inspections
Why Manufacture Sugar in Thailand?
Thailand is the world's second-largest sugar exporter after Brazil, with structural advantages that make it an ideal sourcing country:
- ✓Climate advantage — tropical monsoon climate ideal for sugarcane
- ✓Cost efficiency — labor and operational costs lower than EU/US
- ✓Logistics — Laem Chabang and Bangkok ports serve global shipping lines
- ✓Quality reputation — Thai sugar is internationally recognized for consistency
- ✓Free trade agreements — preferential tariffs to ASEAN, China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia
- ✓Strong food safety regulations — Thai FDA compliance with international standards
- ✓Government export support — Office of the Cane and Sugar Board oversight
Sustainability & Certifications
We're committed to sustainable sugar manufacturing. Our facility operates on biomass energy from cane bagasse (a byproduct of cane crushing), making our energy footprint largely carbon-neutral:
- ✓ISO 9001:2015 — Quality Management System
- ✓HACCP — Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (food safety)
- ✓GMP — Good Manufacturing Practice
- ✓Halal — Certified by CICOT (Central Islamic Council of Thailand)
- ✓Kosher — Certified by approved authority
- ✓BRC — British Retail Consortium Global Standard for Food Safety
- ✓USDA NOP / EU Organic — for organic sugar production
- ✓Sedex — Ethical trade audit member
- ✓Bonsucro — sustainable sugarcane production member (in progress)