United States Sugar Corporation Improves its Operating ...
The Southern Sugar Company opened the Clewiston Sugar House in 1929 at a production rate of 1,500 tons of cane per day. Since being purchased in 1931 and becoming USSC, the company has continuously improved and upgraded its facilities, including a new raw sugar factory loed at Canal Point, Florida in 1965 and a new refinery in 1998, supported by 187,000 acres of company owned cane .