Refined sugar & white sugar for industrial applications
Our white sugar is produced exclusively from European sugar beets and supplied to industrial customers and further processors. It is available in a range of grades and particle sizes to meet your specific product requirements in your applications such as beverages, baked goods, dairy products, fruit preparations and pharmaceutical formulations.
To address different processing needs, we offer three distinct qualities of white beet sugar, each with its own characteristics and application focus:
- Refined Sugar / Extra White Sugar (Category EU1): Highly refined beet sugar with maximum purity and brightness, suitable for applications requiring the highest visual and compositional standards.
- High-grade White Sugar: A versatile beet sugar quality combining high purity with excellent processing performance for a broad range of industrial food applications.
- White Sugar (Category EU2): A standard beet sugar quality designed for reliable performance in industrial processing.
Our white sugar is also available as certified organic beet sugar (EU Organic, Naturland, BioSuisse, Bioland, Biokreis).
We supply white sugar in bulk, big bags or sacks, precisely tailored to your industrial production processes.
Benefits of using white sugar and refined sugar
- Versatile in the food industry, particularly in the production of beverages and confectionery
- Provides a pure, sweet taste
- Provides several functional benefits (e.g. enhances colour and flavour, increases shelf-life, adds viscosity)
- Serves as a bulking agent in food and improves texture and mouthfeel
Our white sugar range:
Refined Sugar / Extra White Sugar (EU1)
Refined sugar (category EU1) meets stricter quality requirements than standard white sugar. It is particularly light in colour, contains fewer minerals and dissolves very clearly in water and offers improved colour stability at high temperatures. Our Raffinade can be used whenever requirements regarding colour, purity and clarity of solution are particularly demanding, e.g. in flavourings/essences, pharmaceutical products or beverages. Specification for refined sugar / white sugar EU1
High-Grade White Sugar
Our High-Grade white sugar has good filterability. High-Grade is our internal quality designation; for further information on the product’s properties, please refer to the product specification.
Specification for High-Grade White Sugar
White Sugar (EU2)
White sugar (category EU2) meets the EU standard quality. Our standard white sugar is suitable for most food applications – such as baked goods, confectionery or dairy products. Specification for White Sugar EU2
White Sugar Available Grain Sizes
We produce our ‘Extra White Sugar’, ‘White Sugar High Grade’ and ‘White Sugar’ exclusively from sugar beets. Their individual characteristics make them ideal for different applications.
We offer our granulated white sugars in a wide variety of grain sizes that provide unique functional benefits which make them particularly suitable for specific applications, whether in the baking, confectionery, or beverage industry. This allows you to select the optimal sugar quality for every production process.
We can also supply additional grain sizes upon request.
| Type of designation | Symbol | Mean aperture (in mm) |
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| Standard | S | 0.40 – 1.00 |
| Coarse | C | 1.00 – 1.60 |
| Medium | M | 0.60 – 1.00 |
| Fine | F | 0.40 – 0.65 |
| Extra Fine | XF | 0.20 – 0.40 |
| Extra extra fine | XXF | 0.18 – 0.25 |
| Extra Fine Special granulation* | XFS | >0,300 mm < 10% |
*Our XFS grade is a specially calibrated particle size that is available exclusively on request and is supplied only in big bags from our Roye plant (Conditionnement).
White Sugar Grades and Grain Size Availability
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Technical product details and handling of refined sugar and white sugar
Do you want more information on our crystalline sugar products? Are you interested in crystalline sugar market trends and consumer needs?
Do you have further questions or need support to select the right crystalline sugar product?
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Organic White Sugar
We also offer White Sugar, in certified-organic quality. Our organic beet sugar is available with the following organic certifications: EU Bio, Naturland, Biokreis, BioSuisse and Bioland.
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Raw Beet Sugar
Our raw beet sugar is made entirely from European sugar beet and complements our classic white sugar varieties. Thanks to a special production process, it retains more of the sugar beet’s original components, giving it its slightly brownish colour and mild flavour. Ideal for products that require not only sweetness but also a subtle, slightly caramelised note.
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Pharmaceutical Standards
We produce our Extra White Sugar according to the highest food quality standards and we can propose you references compliant to the sucrose monograph of the European pharmacopoeia.
If you would like to know what types and sizes of packaging we offer for your chosen product, or what grain sizes are available, we would be happy to assist you personally.
Daniel Neu, Product Manager White Sugar, Extra White Sugar, White Sugar High-Grade
Certifications
At Südzucker, we are committed to complying with recognised certification standards. Our plants are certified to numerous internationally recognised standards, including IFS, FSSC, GMP+, QS, REDcert, Organic, Halal and Kosher. These certifications validate our quality assurance and quality management systems.
You can find all relevant certificates via our document search – filtered by document type and country of production.
If you are interested in buying our products online, please select your country or contact us via email.
Frequently asked questions about white sugar
Our Raffinade and white sugar products consist of white, free-flowing sucrose crystals and are suitable for a wide range of applications in the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. The difference between refined sugar (category EU1), white sugar (category EU2) and high-grade white sugar lies in the measurable parameters. You can find the exact specifications in the relevant data sheets on our website.
Yes, our range also includes certified organic sugar in accordance with the EU Organic Regulation DE-ÖKO-003. Our organic range comprises both EU organic label products and organic beet sugar with organic association labels such as Naturland (since 2014), BioSuisse and Bioland (since 2020). Since 2024, we have also had organic beet sugar with Biokreis certification in our portfolio.
Our range includes both EU Category 1 sugar (refined sugar) and EU Category 2 sugar (standard-quality white sugar). This classification ensures reliable suitability for various processing operations in the food industry. You can find further information on this in our specifications.
Yes, our refined sugar complies with the European Pharmacopoeia’s sucrose monograph.
Can you provide certificates of conformity in accordance with Ph. Eur and USP for sucrose?
Our ‘Ph’ sugar for pharmaceutical purposes is subject to strict quality control during production in accordance with sugar-specific methods validated globally within the framework of the ICUMSA (International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis). Upon request, we can certify that the composition and manufacture of the sugar comply with the relevant standards. You can find more information about our products for the pharmaceutical industry here.
Yes, we supply calibrated sugar in various particle sizes. The average particle sizes of our finest grades range from Standard (0.40–1.00 mm) to
XXF (0.18–0.25 mm). On request, we also offer specially fine granules (XFS) under 0.300 mm.
Our sugar range is optimally tailored to a wide variety of industrial requirements. We offer different particle sizes from Standard (average particle sizes of 0.4 mm–1 mm) to Extra Fine (average particle sizes of 0.2 mm–0.4 mm), as well as sizes in between. The average particle sizes of our various white sugars can be found in the product specifications.
Südzucker provides samples for application testing to support industrial customers with product development and process optimisation. These samples enable the processing properties, sensory characteristics and technical suitability of the products to be tested under real-world conditions. Please contact us.
Our white sugars (refined sugar, high-grade white sugar and white sugar) are produced exclusively from sugar beet grown in Europe.
Sugar Processing
Did you know that it takes just 8 hours to produce shimmering white sugar crystals from a sugar beet… field to factory?
Let’s have a closer look at the process:
Sugar beet harvesting begins in September, “the campaign”. We take samples from each load of beet delivery to determine e.g. sugar content and to analyze the amount of soil left on the beets. Once the beets are offloaded they are thoroughly washed and are sent directly to the processing line or to the storage facility.
The sugar beets are sliced into thin strips known as cossettes, pre-heated in a cossette scalder and are then sent to an extraction tower. Water at 70°C is poured through the device to extract the sugar and produce raw juice. The used cossettes are dried by means of screw presses and hot air.
A lime kiln is used to produce the natural substances lime and carbon dioxide, which are added sequentially to the raw juice to bind and precipitate out the non-sugar impurities. A clear, thin juice with a sugar content of approximately sixteen percent remains.
The thin juice is concentrated by heating to make a thick golden-brown juice with a sugar content of about sixty-seven percent.
The thick juice is boiled until sugar crystals are formed, which are a glowing golden colour because they are covered in syrup. The syrup is separated from the crystals in a centrifuge. Hot water is used to rinse off any residual syrup. The remaining sugar crystals are clear as glass, and the light refracted from them is white as snow. The sugar is dissolved and re-crystallized to produce refined sugar – sugar that is extremely pure.
The finished beet sugar is dried, cooled and stored in silos, and is subsequently withdrawn and further processed or packed. As a white sugar manufacturer for B2B, over eighty percent of our sugar production is sold for industrial use with the balance sold to retail.
