National Sugar Refining Company
The National Sugar Refining Company was a sugar refining company that operated between 1900 and 1984.
History
Three New York City refineries, Mollenhauers in Brooklyn, National Sugar Company in Yonkers and the New York Refining Company in Long Island were acquired and merged by Henry Osborne Havemeyer, president of the American Sugar Refining Company, via James H. Post, as the National Sugar Refining Company of New Jersey on 31 May, 1900.[1] American Sugar owned a fifty percent share of the stock, but National Sugar operated independently. National Sugar used the brand names of Jack Frost and Arbuckle.[2]
National Sugar operated four buildings across from the Newtown Creek from American Sugar.[3][4] In 1947 National Sugar acquired the Pennsylvania Sugar Company.[5][6] In 1948 the company produced 4 million pounds of refined sugar per day, and by 1950 had expanded to a 24 acre site.[7]
In 1975 the company was purchased by NUNA Corporation for 19.5 million dollars. National Sugar went bankrupt and was closed down in 1984.[2]
References
- ^ "AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING COMPANY BROOKLYN REFINERY" (PDF). Library of Congress. Retrieved 7 March 2026.
- ^ a b "National Sugar Refining Co. (Organization) | hobbyDB". www.hobbydb.com.
- ^ Marzlock, Ron (June 13, 2019). "How sweet it was: Jack Frost and the Domino effect". Queens Chronicle.
- ^ "Massive Towers Hide Industry That Turns Its Product From Brown to White With Pre-historic Skeletons and Charred Bones". Brookyn Daily Eagle. May 30, 1936. p. A44 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Minardi, Lisa. "Sugar and Sugar Refining". The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia.
- ^ "Jack Frost Sugar". www.workshopoftheworld.com.
- ^ "National Sugar Refining Company Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.