A huge thank you to all our growers, contractors, hauliers, and employees for their continued hard work over the festive season, keeping the #homegrown sugar industry operating 💛💚
British Sugar
Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire 20,705 followers
Producing over 50% of the UK's sugar from homegrown sugar beet grown by 2,300 farmers
About us
British Sugar is the leading supplier to the British and Irish food and beverage markets. We operate at four advanced manufacturing plants across East Anglia and the East Midlands. We currently employ around 1,200 permanent and contract staff and indirectly support around 7,000 UK jobs in the wider economy. We employ technicians, apprentices, graduates and experienced professionals for roles across the business and throughout the supply chain including engineers, accountants and project managers. Over the past 10 years, we have recruited and trained over 80 graduates and 50 apprentices. Over 2,300 growers supply our factories with around 8 million tonnes of sugar beet each year, which we process into up to 1.2 million tonnes of sugar. Sugar production is at the heart of our operations but using our highly integrated approach to manufacturing, we aim to transform all of our raw materials into sustainable products. We produce 500,000 tonnes of animal feed from sugar beet pulp. We recycle stones for building, lime for soil conditioning and soil for landscaping. Using our Combined Heat & Power plants, we export enough electricity to power 120,000 homes. We were also the first company to manufacture Bioethanol in the UK. Over the past five years, we have invested over £300m in our advanced manufacturing plants at Bury St Edmunds, Cantley, Newark and Wissington to make them as efficient and productive as possible.
- Website
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http://www.britishsugar.com/
External link for British Sugar
- Industry
- Food and Beverage Manufacturing
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
- Type
- Public Company
- Founded
- 1912
- Specialties
- Engineering and Food production
Locations
Employees at British Sugar
Updates
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Last week, some of our senior leaders gave up their time to support local charities and trusts around the Peterborough area. From wrapping food parcels and presents, to writing Christmas cards and clearing outdoor spaces - everyone threw themselves into the tasks at hand, with amazing results. Huge thanks to Safer off the Streets for letting us support some of your charity partners including - the YMCA, Peterborough Foodbank, Rough Sleeper Outreach, the Salvation Army and Women's Aid, plus the team at Sacrewell & the William Scott Abbott Trust too. Everyone had a great time supporting some incredible local causes 💛 #givingback #teamvolunteering
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We're joining the Westminster Forum Projects Food and Nutrition Forum this morning to discuss agri-food industry climate adaptation and net zero targets. Our Head of Decarbonisation, Philip McNaughton, will be sharing insights from our #decarbonisation journey to date and what's next for us ⬇️ #WFNFevents
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Yesterday, our Managing Director Keith Packer signed the Armed Forces Covenant alongside Lt Col Swales at our head office in Peterborough. We're proud to pledge our commitment to supporting the Armed Forces community as we recognise the contribution personnel (regulars, reservists, veterans and their families) make, not only to our company, but society as a whole. We look forward to further building on this commitment well into 2025 and beyond. #armedforcescovenant
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Huge congratulations to our smart factory team, a fantastic achievement 🎉 👏
Congratulations to British Sugar for being awarded 'Highly Commended' in the 'Smart Factory' category at The Manufacturer MX Awards 2024 (in partnership with Institution of Mechanical Engineers)! Special thanks to our headline sponsor Columbus and category sponsor Epicor. #TMMX2024 #TMMXAwards #TheManufacturerLive #ManufacturingExcellence #UKMfg
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Our Managing Director Keith Packer has been at the International Sugar Organization seminar in London today, giving a keynote speech on British Sugar. Sharing insight into the British sugar beet industry, our partnership with growers and NFU Sugar, as well as our decarbonisation journey which has seen us reduce our Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 21% since 2017/18. We'll be sharing more about our efforts to decarbonise our operations soon so watch this space! 👀
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We’re honoured to have been involved in this inspiring new initiative supporting FareShare UK. It’s great to see this level of collaboration across the food manufacturing industry, all coming together to support such a good cause 👇
Crumbs! Biscuit Alliance Step Up For FareShare UK Well done to our friends at Elkes Biscuits Ltd who have masterminded a manufacturing first for FareShare! 👏 Whitworths Ltd Elkes Biscuits Ltd Allied Mills | part of Associated British Foods plc British Sugar Read the story here: https://lnkd.in/eaSwH-FZ
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It was a pleasure to host members from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs industrial emissions team and the Environment Agency's food and drink team at our Wissington site yesterday. A chance to see the sugar production process up close, showcasing all the exciting work taking place on site including the future plans we have to continue decarbonising our operations...
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Today, ABF published its annual results and 2024 Annual Report which features some of our key projects and initiatives this year. From our progress in decarbonising our operations, to the roll-out of our psychological safety programme and the expansion of our apprenticeship schemes this year. Read about all of this and so much more on ABF's website:
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