Royal Visit as Tate & Lyle celebrates 130 years of sugar refining in London
… despite several direct hits – and today processes around 1 million tonnes of sugar every year.
A fortnight … increased from an average of 214 tonnes per week in 1878 to 1.1m tonnes per annum today.
· At its peak over 3,000 people worked at the refinery. Today around 1,000 people (including contractors) currently work on site. …