
Are Rising Sugar Prices Keeping You Up at Night?
Are you a sugar buyer stressed over how droughts in the US and freezing temperatures in Brazil will impact the price of sugar? Add when you add in speculative commodity trading, trucking costs, wage pressures and currency valuations, it's appears that inflationary prices will be around for a while. According to Rabobank Research, "Given all of this, it is not surprising that food companies have been talking about input cost inflation (packaging, agricultural commodities, tr

Meet the Micro-Refinery: The Value of Proximity
Decades ago, traditional refineries were placed in coastal locations to optimize freight-in costs and to be close to highly concentrated food manufacturing plants. But that has changed. As the population spread out there has been a significant migration of food manufacturing to more rural areas to access these new labor markets and to optimize the economics of manufacturing. The legacy sugar refineries and food manufacturing plants were no longer in close proximity and in-lan

Covington Plant Receives TN Governor's Award of Excellence for Workplace Safety and Health
"Sugaright has demonstrated a strong commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace. The evaluation criteria for this award is challenging, and this company has worked extremely hard to meet and exceed the standards the award requires." Wendy Fisher, Assistant Commissioner Tennessee Dept of Labor and Workforce Development The Tennessee OSHA (TOSHA) has recognized the Sugaright Covington facility with the Governor's Award of Excellence on July 2, 2021 at the Tennessee