Germany’s second largest sugar producer Nordzucker on Thursday said it will start this year’s sugar refining season on Sept. 3 and reported success in converting refinery plants to oil fuel because of uncertainty about gas supplies. Over 80% of its German sugar production capacity has been converted back to oil, a Nordzucker spokesman said. Nordzucker had in previous years been actively switching sugar factories to gas power as part of its programme to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. But the current uncertainty about gas supplies after Russia cut gas deliveries to Western Europe has prompted a temporary change back to oil. read more “Where possible and necessary, our colleagues have switched the factories from gas as an energy source to oil since the end of February in order to secure the processing of the sugar beet,” said Nordzucker chief operating officer Alexander Godow in a […]