Name: Matej Rajninec Class: 5.B.Subject: Regional Education and History

Jan Amos Komenský Primary School, Sereď

Considered to be a luxury good up till the 19 century almost in the whole of the world, sugar was used as a remedy and it could be bought only in chemistries. Just cane sugar was used. The first beet sugar in Slovakia was produced from sugar beet in 1801 by chemist S.J. Gertinger living in the city of Prešov. The first sugar beet factories were built in Veľké Uľany and Vojnice in Slovakia in 1830.

23 January 1907 agricultural beet sugar factory the joint stock company was officially founded in Sered

In 1908 there was the first campaign and the first produced sugar

1908

1919-1949 the refined sugar of all sorts was produced and it was largely exported abroads – Austria, Swisserland, Italy, Turkey and England

Since 1921 the factory has expanded its beet sugar production of refined alcohol

In 1951 there was a fire on sugar soil and the roof and more equipment were destroyed and severely damaged.

1914 - 1918

They are trasported to the sugar factory by trucks, beets are washed down from trucks by the stream of water.

Beet is separated from rocks and weeds. Clay and sand are separated by washing in beet washing machine.

 

processing and manufacturing is a very complex process

raw juice is obtained from beet sliced into thin chips called cossettes or pulp

the juice containing sugar is clarified and mixed with hot milk of lime (a suspension of calcium hydroxide in water) then the juice is saturated that means that impurities are removed

Sugar is obtained from juice by boiling– crystallisation in large vessels

rezky sa lisujú a slúžia ako krmivo

varostroje – v nich sa varí ťažká šťava

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