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Member Mills
Mills: Tableland, Babinda, Mourilyan, South Johnstone, Millaquin, Bingera
Bundaberg Sugar, whose origins date back to 1880, owns and operates six sugar mills and a sugar refinery in Queensland. The company is the largest cane grower in Australia and is part of the Belgian family-owned Finasucre group. It manufactures and markets raw and white sugar and owns the Bundaberg Foundry Engineers Ltd.
Mills: Macknade, Victoria, Invicta, Pioneer, Kalamia, Inkerman, Plane Creek
CSR Sugar owns and operates seven raw sugar mills in Queensland and operates distilleries at Sarina and at Yarraville, Melbourne. In a joint venture with Mackay Sugar Cooperative Assn, Sugar Australia operates sugar refineries in Mackay and Yarraville; and with the New Zealand Sugar Company Limited has a refinery in Auckland, New Zealand. CSR also administers Australian Molasses Trading Pty Ltd.
Isis Central Sugar Mill Company Limited
Isis Central Mill, located in Chliders, has been crushing cane since 1896/7. This grower-owned mill is the major contributor to the districts' economy. It was the first mill to produce Queensland High Pol brand Sugar.
Mackay Sugar Cooperative Association Limited
Mills: Farleigh, Marian, Pleystowe, Racecourse
Mackay Sugar Cooperative Association is a grower-owned sugar milling and refining entity that owns and operates four sugar factories and has a 25% interest in a joint refining venture with CSR. The Mackay region is a major producer of raw sugar in Queensland.
The Maryborough Sugar Factory Limited
Maryborough Sugar is a public company, having as its principal activities the growing of sugar cane and the manufacture of raw sugar and sugar cane by-products. It also produces Queensland High Pol brand sugar.
Mossman Central Mill Company Limited
Mossman Mill is grower-owned and is the most northern of Queensland's sugar mills.
The Mulgrave Central Mill Company Limited
Mulgrave Mill is a grower-owned entity and first commenced crushing in 1896. It absorbed the cane lands of the Hambledon mill area in 1992. Mulgrave Mill took the lead in developing the NIR based cane analysis system.
Proserpine Cooperative Sugar Milling Association Limited
Proserpine Sugar Mill first operated in 1897. The grower-owned cooperative was formed in 1931. Over the last decade considerable expansion has taken place and there is potential for further growth. Proserpine was the first Australian sugar mill with a single milling tandem to have crushed two million tonnes of cane in one season. The Association is progressing plans to produce and market commercial furfural.
Built in 1925 by the Queensland Government, Tully Mill became a grower owned cooperative in 1931 and changed to an unlisted public company in 1990. The mill is a reliable supplier of electricity to the state grid during the crushing season. The company constructed a shopping centre in 2001 on land owned by the company.
W H Heck and Sons Pty Limited
The Rocky Point Mill is a privately owned sugar mill in Australia and has been owned by the Heck family since it began operation in 1879. A number of recent innovations include the production of organic certified sugar, and the production and marketing of anhydrous ethanol. The site also has electrical generating capacity of up to 30 MW of electricity for the state grid.