Over the years, CCC has had numerous projects in the food and beverage industry, so stepping into the sugar industry was not a foreign experience. The clients listed below are premier sugar producers in the United States and have recently had major construction projects at their facilities. Although the client list is not long, the dedication and commitment to these clients is without measure.
- US Sugar
- Imperial Sugar
- Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers
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CCC’s construction expertise has assured the successful execution of projects in excess of $100 million worth of direct construction services to the sugar industry. Implementing best practices of every construction discipline combined with CCC’s commitment to safety and quality have resulted in major rebuilds and modernizations.
The experience gained with these complex modernizations have put CCC into a unique position of being a construction company that understands the requirements of installing, testing and starting up complex sugar equipment.
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Major Modernization of Sugar Mill
Florida
CCC Group’s scope consisted of several contracts for a major modernization and expansion project.
The majority of the project was fast track with pipe design and existing facility modifications design being completed as the expansion was constructed. CCC coordinated ten major vendors and specialized equipment suppliers as well as self-performing all disciplines on this project.
In the second phase, CCC was responsible for the installation of the major foundations, structural steel and equipment setting for the evaporation plant. In the third phase of the project, CCC partnered with the client to refurbish and expand the main processing plant, the most complex portion of the project.
The Challenge
The greatest challenge was to demolish and reconstruct portions of the processing plant in and around the operational facility without disruption to the production.
Project included:
- Fabrication and erection of over 5,000 tons of steel structures and pipe racks
- 10,000 cubic yards of concrete
- 93,000 linear feet of pipe (ranging from ½” – 52”)
- Hundreds of auger cast piling
- Installation of the process equipment
- Over 100 Process Pumps (from 10 HP to 600 HP)
- Condensers
- Tanks
- Evaporators
- Vacuum Pumps
- Crystallizers
- Specialized Continuous Vacuum Pans
- Reheaters
- Scales
- Conveyors
- Heat Exchangers (Ranging In Weight From 17 To 150 Tons)
The project was completed AHEAD OF SCHEDULE …originally
conceived 3 year project was completed in TWO years. |
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Rebuild of Sugar Refinery
Georgia
CCC was contracted to rebuild the “white end” refinery section of a facility destroyed during an explosion. With our intimate knowledge of the sugar equipment part of our responsibility was to get the sugar refinery equipment ready for production.
The scope of work consisted of:
- Cleanup of the entire sugar processing facility including getting the equipment into an operational state
- Demolition of portions of the white end building and refurbishment of the damaged buildings to a food grade standard
- Construction of a new white end building together with the setting and installation of all the major process equipment
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