What we do

SOURCING - MANUFACTURING - CONSULTING - DELIVERING

Ragus operations

Our UK sugar factory close to west London is designed to the latest food manufacturing standards, uses highly efficient processes and includes smart technology. This ensures we deliver our pure sugars, glucose syrups and specialist blends to customers in the baking, brewing, confectionary and pharmaceutical industries in full and on time.

Ragus gets most of its raw materials from natural sugar cane grown in countries with a tropical climate.
cane
Once at the mill, the cane gets crushed with high-pressure rollers.
crush
Centrifugal machines spin the massecuite syrup for two minutes to separate the crystals from the liquid.
spin
Crystalline sugars are sourced from all over the world
sourced
They arrive on containers and are taken from ships to our UK facility.
Arrival
Delivery trucks are taken to our weigh bridge to ensure the correct quantity has arrived
weighed
Goods are unloaded
Unloaded
The sugars are stored in our state of the art warehouse.
Stored
Crystals are dissolved in inversion pans and turned into syrups.
dissolved
Syrups are passed through filter presses to remove impurities.
filtered
The syrups can then be diverted to the blending plant for ‘soft sugars.’
soft sugars
From here the syrups are pumped to holding tanks
Syrups
The product is decanted into various pack sizes and sent to customers in Europe and worldwide.
distribution
Ragus gets most of its raw materials from natural sugar cane grown in countries with a tropical climate.
cane
Once at the mill, the cane gets crushed with high-pressure rollers.
crush
Centrifugal machines spin the massecuite syrup for two minutes to separate the crystals from Molasses.
spin
Molasses is sourced from all over the world, delivered in tanker ships and pumped into holding silos at the port.
sourced
The Molasses is delivered in road tankers, when it arrives it is taken to our weighbridge to ensure the correct quantity.
DELIVERED & Weighed
Molasses is then placed in holding tanks prior to processing.
holding tanks
The raw Molasses is pumped into evaporating vats for purifying.
evaporation
The Molasses then passes through filters to remove any remaining impurities.
Filtered
From here the Molasses can be diverted to inversion pans for syrup production.
syrup
From here the Molasses can be sent to the blending plant for soft sugars.
soft sugars
The product is cooled to a specific temperature and matured in holding tanks.
maturation
The product is decanted into various pack formats ranging from 7 kilo sizes to 25,000 kilo road tankers
Packed
Delivered to customers in Europe and worldwide
Distribution
Ragus gets most of its raw materials from natural sugar cane grown in countries with a tropical climate.
cane
Once at the mill, the cane gets crushed with high-pressure rollers.
crush
Centrifugal machines spin the massecuite syrup for two minutes to separate the crystals from the liquid.
spin
Crystalline sugars are sourced from all over the world
sourced
They arrive on containers and are taken from ships to our UK facility.
Arrival
Delivery trucks are taken to our weigh bridge to ensure the correct quantity has arrived
weighed
Goods are unloaded
Unloaded
The sugars are stored in our state of the art warehouse.
Stored
Sugars pass through a sieve and are screened
Sieved
Magnets remove any metal elements
Magnets
Sugars are sent to the blending plant where they are mixed with syrup to produce soft sugars
Blended
Raw sugars are passed through a dryer
Dried
Sugars pass through a sieve and are screened
Sieved
Magnets remove any metal elements
Magnets
The sugar is then packed into 25 or thousand kilo bags.
bagging
Screened, for extra quality checks through magnets again.
Magnets
Delivered to customers in Europe and worldwide
Delivered

Ragus services

We provide a complete service – from scouring the globe for the best and most sustainable sources of beet and pure cane sugar to manufacturing a wide range of sugars products and delivering on-time and in-full to customers across the world. Our products span pure sugars and syrups to special formulations created by our expert team on site at our laboratory in the UK. For more on the four key areas of our business – sourcing, manufacturing, consulting and delivering see below.

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