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British Sugar is recruiting 30 staff for its new Silver Spoon sugar packing plant due to open in Bury St Edmunds in August. 06-Jul-2009 British Sugar is to close its Silver Spoon sugar packing plant at its site in Newark next year with the loss of up to 68 jobs, in order to transfer the work to Bury St Edmunds. 23-Oct-2008 British Sugar has unveiled plans to invest £35m in the expansion of its factory at Cantley near Yarmouth, with the creation of 25 new jobs, in order to process imported cane sugar from 2010. 22-Oct-2008 British Sugar is to invest £3m in the expansion of its sugar factory in Newark, including additional storage tanks. 22-Aug-2006 British Sugar is seeking permission from King's Lynn Borough Council to build a biofuels production facility at its Wissington site near Downham Market. 15-Dec-2004 The Institute of Food Research has taken over the former British Sugar Technical Centre on the Norwich Research Park, and is now looking to attract companies to the site's laboratory and office facilities. 16-Jan-2002 British Sugar has put its technical research centre on the Norwich Research Park up for sale for more than £2.6m, following a strategic review of its sugar beet factories. 06-Sep-2001 British Sugar is investing £25m in the installation of new resin separation technology at its Wissington factory in Norfolk. 20-Apr-2001 British Sugar is to close three factories in Kidderminster, Ipswich and Bardney near Lincoln, in order to concentrate beet processing at its six other sites. 24-Jan-2001 British Sugar is forming a £7m joint venture with Humber Growers to set up glasshouses for growing tomatoes at Wissington in Norfolk, and similar projects are expected at other British Sugar sites. 17-Jan-2000 British Sugar is planning to build a £35m power generator at its Cantley plant in Norfolk. 19-Apr-1999 British Sugar has won government approval to set up a £35m 70MW combined heat and power plant at its sugar factory in York. 16-Feb-1999 British Sugar has won government approval for a 80MW combined heat and power generating plant at its Bury St Edmunds site. 19-Feb-1998 British Sugar and Tate & Lyle have undertaken not to collude on the fixing of sugar prices following an investigation which has been in the courts since 1991, although they could still face penalties from a European Commission investigation. 12-Dec-1996
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