| Beet sugar factory | |
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 Sugar Factory in Veurne, Belgium |
A beet sugar factory, or sugar factory, is a type of production facility that produces sugar from sugar beets or alternative plants to sugarcane in making refined sugar. Nowadays, most sugar factories also act as a sugar refinery. The first beet sugar factory was built in 1802.[1][2]
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