This piece of equipment associates the principle of a single pressing, combined with wide drain channels for the extracted juice, and a device which limits the reabsorption of juice into the bagasse. Extraction is thus significantly improved, and the energy consumption is reduced when compared to a traditional mill.

This evaporation technology, which is widely used in the production of beet sugar, has been successfully adapted to the specific constraints of cane sugar production by using a new and original device for juice distribution. The sugar mill's energy balance can therefore be optimized.

Fives Cail's recent introduction of new technology for washing beets is worth noting. This technology concerns the final washing of beets, which is effected in a rotating machine: the finishing trommel.

This equipment has distinct advantages in washing quality relative to traditional techniques. These result from a particularly efficient water injection system, an internal lining that protects the beets from damage, and an excellent control of their passage time through the machine. Moreover, it requires less maintenance than traditional washing equipment.

The continuous vacuum pan has undergone a profound evolution since it was introduced into sugar mills and refineries by FIVES CAIL, as much in crystallization quality as in thermal and operational terms. It is still the best available reference in the field of continuous crystallization (FIVES CAIL CCTW type and FLETCHER SMITH / TONGAAT HULETT type).

For centrifuging, FIVES CAIL offers its Customers a wide range of products suited to all of the applications encountered in sugar factories and refineries. The continuous development effort applied to our centrifugals guarantees the quality of these products in terms of performance, reliability, operations and maintenance.

Thus, the latest innovations in our line of batch centrifugals can satisfy the most exacting quality specifications for the sugar produced, while optimizing operating parameters such as water and electricity consumption.

Our continuous centrifugals are available with a diversified range (diameters and basket angles) which allow us to offer the best centrifugal for a particular application.

The high-grade continuous centrifugal (STG) offers an original new design which allows it to be used in applications traditionally reserved for batch centrifugals, such as "A" strikes for cane massecuites and refined sugar strikes.