Methods employed in Hawaiian Islands, where sugar is transported by truck or rail car for loading into ships; at Hilo Storage Plant, facilities are four steel silos 80 ft in diam and 76 ft high each with capacity of 10,000 tons; Nawiliwili plant with capacity of 24,000 tons is of flat floor type; Crokett plant in California, which receives some 15% of Hawaiian production, utilizes nine steel silos of 90,000 ton capacity; conveyor belts handle sugar within plants.


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    Title :

    Bulk handling of raw sugar


    Additional title:

    Dock Harbour Authority


    Published in:

    Dock and Harbour Authority ; 34 , n 397 ; p 203-205


    Publication date :

    1953


    Size :

    3 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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