Where Florida Crystals® products are born.
A sugar mill is a hard thing to come by, so when the opportunity arose for Florida Crystals to purchase three decommissioned mills from Louisiana over sixty years ago, we jumped at the chance. Sugar mills are also hard things to move, but we managed to sail them on a barge across the gulf, through Lake Okeechobee and to Pahokee, where they were reassembled and readied for work. Renamed the Osceola Sugar Mill, it remains one of our primary facilities to this day.
Twenty years later, the Okeelanta Mill became part of our family. Due to our commitment to domestically made organic raw cane sugars, we invested to upgrade this mill to produce unrefined, mill-made sugar products. Today, it's one of the largest specialty sugar facilities in the world and where we mill our Florida Crystals® products.
Between both of our mills, we have acquired the capacity needed to continue to meet all of your baking, cooking and sweetening needs. And over the years, we’ve continued to innovate at each of these facilities, making them more energy efficient, reducing their environmental footprint and perfecting their ability to produce the finest sugar in the world. What we’ve created is an eco-friendly process that utilizes every part of the sugarcane plant, and mills that show the same respect for the ecosystem around us as the family-owned farms on which we grow our sugarcane. All so you can feel good about enjoying raw cane sugars that are homegrown, taste great, and are kind to our planet.
