Nordic Sugar maintains forecast for 2010 sugar output

New harvest forecast confirms prospects of a total sugar output of close to 811,000 tonnes of sugar.

The many hours of sunshine over the past few weeks have provided favourable sugar beet growth conditions in Nordic Sugar's four production countries. According to the field sampling carried out this week by Nordic Sugar the period has thus seen good beet development in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Lithuania. Against this background, Nordic Sugar still expects a sugar output for 2010 at least at the level of the national EU quotas of these countries, in total equivalent to approx. 811,000 tonnes of sugar.

Campaign start-up at Nordic Sugar's five sugar factories has been scheduled as set out in the table below.

 

Table 1: Production start-up at Nordic Sugar's sugar factories 2010:

Factory	Scheduled campaign start
Nakskov, DK	29 September 2010
Nykøbing, DK	23 September 2010
Örtofta, SE	21 September 2010
Säkylä, FI	28 September 2010
Kedainiai, LT	15 September 2010

Table 2: Results of Nordic Sugar’s second field samples:

	Tonnes beet/ha	% sugar in beet	Tonnes sugar/ha
Denmark	62.5 (66.0)	15.3 (16.0)	9.55 (10,60)
Sweden	58.2 (61.8)	15.3 (15.9)	8.88 (9.90)
Finland	43.8 (43.6)	15.4 (15.0)	6.76 (6.54)
Lithuania	66.2 (58.0)	15.1 (15.1)	9.97 (8.75)

 

For further information:

Thomas B. Olsen, Managing Director, Nordic Sugar A/S, tel. +45 3266 2500

Dorthe Lindgreen, Communications/Manager, Nordic Sugar A/S, tel. +45 3266 2588 / +45 4011 6695

 

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