Three plantations on Island of Maui, ship raw sugar to Crockett, Calif, in bulk form; Kahului plant comprises square wooden bins with storage capacity of 30,000 tons; bulk sugar delivered to plant in rail cars and trucks; to load ships, sugar flows by gravity through openings in bin floors to belts which carry it to steamer holds, where it is evenly filled by use of Sinden trimmer; on mainland dock, two steel gantries unload boats.
Hawaiian sugar industry converts to bulk handling
Food Eng
Food Engineering ; 21 , n 7 ; p 902-904
1949
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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