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Tully Sugar Limited

Locality: Tully, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4068 4777

Address: 1 Hort Street 4854 Tully, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.tullysugar.com.au

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25.01.2022 Fun Fact Friday Long days and hard work. The men on the ground were an imperative part of our sugar cane history. Check in next Tuesday when we'll be posting a video on what is like to live a day in the life of our Queensland cane cutting gangs!

25.01.2022 How amazing is this drone photo of the Tully Sugar Mill! Thankyou Visual Pty Ltd for sharing this with us. How was everyone's long weekend?

25.01.2022 Tully Sugar Limited’s 2020 Core Values

25.01.2022 #throwbackthursday An oldie but a goodie. Butler Street, in what they are calling a simpler time in life. Does anyone know what year this could have been taken? Check out the old Broadway Theatre! Thank you Graham Sollitt for sharing this photo.

24.01.2022 Fun Fact Friday Who has smelled the insanely sweet scent of molasses? Lighter grades of Molasses made from sugarcane are edible and can be used for baking or candy-making, for example. Whereas Blackstrap molasses is thicker and has more of a bitter flavour, which is often used mixed into animal feed. Our local cattle love it!

24.01.2022 The 2021 crushing season is planned to commence on Tuesday 8th June (Weather Permitting) with cutting starting the previous day. Tully Sugar cane trains have been traversing the rail network leading up to this date and will ramp up rail activities as harvesting increases. Please "Play it safe and stay away from cane trains"

24.01.2022 #throwbackthursday Looking up Butler Street towards Mount Tyson, taken around 1938. Do you have any throwback photos of the Tully Sugar Mill or our town? We would love to see them! Comment below or send them through to us. Queensland State Archives

23.01.2022 #throwbackthursday Thank you to Karen Simmonds for sharing this Tully Mill file from 1923! Do you have any photos or history pieces of mill? We would love to know, let us know in the comments.

23.01.2022 Tully Sugar recently quietly passed past the half way mark of this 2020 crushing season. In the last 14 weeks, over 1.3 Million Tonnes of cane has been crushed of an estimate of 2.4 Million Tonnes. The CCS value (Commercial cane sugar) so far for the season has averaged 12.52, with the last 2 weeks showing a positive weekly increase. For the growing sector, recent rain has been a mixed blessing as planting is well under way across the region with good soil moisture conditions... promoting good growth, although the accumulated rainfall has currently stopped harvesting activities for the short term. With school holidays taking place over the next 2 weeks, Chief Operating Officer, John Edwards expressed that he wished to remind parents, guardians and students to be mindful of our Cane Trains operating throughout the district. Slow down at rail crossings, never play in rail corridors and to stay safe and enjoy your holidays. Photo Courtesy of Cameron M.

22.01.2022 #throwbackthursday Back to the beginning! This is a photo of VIP's at the official opening of the Tully Sugar Mill in 1925. Pictured (From left): J. Archer, Jack Skardon, F.E. Barbat (Builder), Percy Pease, MLA,J. J. Cran (Mill Manager), E. Malin, W. J. Short (General Manager Central Mills), Brice Henry, H. Turner, James Thorne (Cardwell Shire Chairman), P. Dringle, Jim Barnes, G. Blair, J. Minehan.... Thank you Caroline Kane for sharing this weeks photo. Have you got old photos of the mill or our town? Send them through to us!

22.01.2022 With only a couple more weeks of cane crushing season, we still need to be vigilant and aware of cane trains in the area. Take caution when approaching cane train crossings and STOP at the flashing lights.

22.01.2022 You cannot miss gazing across at our Tully Sugar Mill if you climb Mount Tyson to Scouts Rock. What a fantastic view of our local area!! Just passed 915 000 Tonnes of sugar cane crushed. Thank you to Kellie B for the photo !

22.01.2022 A little something to help you through the week. Hang in there, we are almost to Friday!

22.01.2022 We know how much you have all been loving our Fun Fact Fridays, we had a few technical difficulties posting last weeks fun fact, but please see below! .......................................................... Fun Fact Friday ... Pretty and practical! The inflorescence, or tassel, of sugarcane is an open-branched panicle. It is also known as an arrow, therefore flowering is also commonly referred to as "arrowing". Each tassel consists of several thousand tiny flowers, each capable of producing one seed.

21.01.2022 They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them. Lest we forget

21.01.2022 Factory Tour #3 Cane billets are tipped onto a cane carrier and transported to a shredder, the shredder reduces and shreds the cane into fibrous material and ruptures the juice cells. The shredded cane then passes through a series of five crushing mills to extract as much sugar juice as possible. Learn more about the extraction process on the 2nd January!

20.01.2022 Let's reminisce on FUN ways to work with sugar! Do you remember back in the day making toffee cups and toffee apples to share at school fetes and birthday parties? Toffee is a well known confection made by caramelising sugar over very high heat Since then, look at the new creative ways toffee can be used! Beautiful cake decorations using our favourite main ingredient - SUGAR! ... What type of toffee person are you? Traditional Toffee Cup Trudy Creative Cake Decorator Cathy . . . . . . . . #tullysugar #tullysugarmill #tullysugarlimited #sugarmill #tully #tullyfnq #tullynq #northqueensland #farnorthqueensland #fnq #explorefnq #exploretnq #tropicalcoastqueensland #sugarcane #canegrowers #tullyhistory #toffee #toffeeapple #cakedecorating

20.01.2022 EVERY Day Is Earth Day For Farmers The aim of Earth Day is to raise awareness on the negative impact our actions as mankind have on our environment and earth. The theme for Earth Day 2020 is Climate Action. What can you do to be involved this Earth Day?... Go on a beach clean Plant a tree Go plastic free Walk or ride a bike to school/work Shop at a local farmers market Improve your recycling practices . . . . . . . #tullysugar #tullysugarmill #tullysugarlimited #sugarmill #tully #tullyfnq #tullynq #northqueensland #farnorthqueensland #fnq #explorefnq #exploretnq #tropicalcoastqueensland #sugarcane #canegrowers #tullyhistory #earthday See more

19.01.2022 Just over 2 weeks until the Tully Sustainable Farming Day - put it in your calendars! Australian Banana Growers' Council CANEGROWERS Sugar Research Australia Tully Sugar Limited Wet Tropics Sugar Industry Partnership Wet Tropics Regional Agricultural Landcare Facilitator

18.01.2022 #throwbackthursday Stepping back in time with an old photograph of the chimney being built during the construction of the mill on January 17th, 1925.

18.01.2022 #throwbackthursday We can see everyone has been loving our throwback photos! This one was shared by Graham Sollitt of the Tully Train Station. . Can anyone tell us what year this photo would have been taken?

18.01.2022 We will remember them

17.01.2022 Mill tours have come to an end for this years crushing season and we want to say a big thank you to everyone who came and experienced behind the scenes of the Tully Sugar Mill! Did you go on a mill tour this year?

17.01.2022 We love seeing our local community enjoying what Tully has to offer! Make the most of the last week of school holidays with a tour of the Tully Sugar Mill. Did you know we are one of the last sugar mills to still do tours? Call Tully Visitor and Information Centre to book now! Tour Duration - approx. 1.5 - 2 hours For booking or further information please contact the Tully Visitor & Information Center 07 4068 2288 or our website: http://www.tullysugar.com.au.../mill-tours Don't forget to tag us in your photos! @tullysugarlimited #tullysugarmill Thankyou for sharing your photos @meloneysix15 (Instagram)

17.01.2022 Tully Sugar Limited tipped its last unit of cane for the 2020 season at 8:58pm Thursday Night, the 3rd of December. The total tonnes crushed for the year was 2,463,549 tonnes with an average CCS (Commercial cane sugar) of 12.96 CEO Andrew Yu, pictured center in front of part of his team stated: Despite the Covid-19 impact and earlier rain interruptions, 2020 is a satisfying season with a timely finish,the lowest Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate of 3.7 and Zero Covid cases. Thanks to the management team, all the employees and staff of TSL, and to the support given by all the growers, the TCGL and the local community. We look forward to another successful season in 2021.

17.01.2022 Did you know, it can take more than a kilometre for a fully loaded cane train to come to a complete stop, so it's important that motorists, cyclist and pedestrians give way to our trains. Some of our cane trains are 200 bins long and have more than 1500 tonnes of rolling weight, but unfortunately, some people still underestimate the force behind them. (Source North Queensland Register) This is why we ask you to please approach cane train crossings with caution and STOP at th...e flashing lights. Don't take risks, its just not worth it!

16.01.2022 Factory Tour #1 Where it all begins when we go behind the scenes of the Tully Sugar Mill. After harvesting, cane is transported to the mill where it is weighed and processed at automated cane-receiving stations. The name of the producing farm and the weight of each cane bin is automatically recorded. Today there are approximately 325 growers who supply the mill with more than 2 million tonnes of cane! Thankyou Gregorio Bortolussi for sharing this photo.

16.01.2022 Seasonal Workers - 2021 Crushing season notification

15.01.2022 Today's good mood is sponsored by coffee . Happy International Coffee Day! We like ours with a few teaspoons of Tully's raw sugar. Tag someone below that can't live without coffee

15.01.2022 Factory Tour #6 The next stage in our factory is evaporation, the clear juice from the clarifiers is concentrated to a thick syrup by boiling off water under vacuum in a series of connected vessels called effets or evaporators. The juice is passed continuously from vessel to vessel until it is condensed to a syrup containing approximately 70% sugar. From here the sugar starts to crystallise and is grown to the required size, approximately 1mm. Check back on the 11th February to learn more!

14.01.2022 Thanks Tully Sugar Limited for your donation Keep your eyes peeled for your chance to win this next year!

14.01.2022 TULLY - 'A PRETTY WET PLACE' Tully has a tropical rainforest climate with an average annual rainfall exceeding 4,000 millimetres (160 in) Arguably the wettest town in Australia, Tully holds the record for the highest ever annual rainfall in a populated area of Australia with 7,900 millimetres (310 in) in 1950 As you can see by the height of our famous Golden Gum Boot! To grow successfully, sugarcane needs strong sunlight, fertile soil and LOTS of water It needs ...at least 1.5 m of rainfall each year or access to irrigation. Our industry certainly thrives in our beautiful North Queensland weather conditions . . . . . . . #tullysugar #tullysugarmill #tullysugarlimited #sugarmill #tully #tullyfnq #tullynq #northqueensland #farnorthqueensland #fnq #explorefnq #exploretnq #tropicalcoastqueensland #sugarcane #canegrowers #tullyhistory

14.01.2022 Last year we shared a few photos from Simon Hudson who owns a restoration company in the UK. They recently purchased Tully Sugar Mill's original locomotive #5 built at Fowlers in Leeds, UK. The loco was delivered to the workshop 2 weeks ago, where they will begin restoration. Check out the video below! The history and life of this locomotive is extraordinary. We will be sharing some of the information over the next couple of the weeks! If you can't wait, read Simons blog post here

14.01.2022 Factory Tour #5 Moving on to clarification, the cane juice, as delivered from the milling train, contains some soil and other undesirable impurities. To remove these the juice is heated and lime is added to settle any unwanted material in large specially designed vessels called clarifiers. Muddy juice extracted from the bottom of the clarifiers is mixed with fine bagasse and then filtered through cylindrical rotary vacuum filters which filter out any remaining juice. The fi...lter mud extracted from the filters is rich in nutrients and is recycled back into the cane fields and gardens. Factory Tour #6 coming soon!

14.01.2022 Factory Tour #2 Once the cane bins reach the marshalling yards, the consignment notes are collected and the details of the farmers are entered into the weighbridge computer system. When the bin/unit reaches the tippler it is weighed, tipped into the hopper below and weighed again once empty. Find out on the 18th the next process in sugar production!

13.01.2022 #throwbackthursday Inside the Tully Sugar Mill looking at the old Vacuum Pans. Looks very different now! Queensland State Archives

13.01.2022 Full steam ahead!! Loving the view and sound of the factory in full flight... Just recently passed 800,000 Tonnes crushed to date this season.

13.01.2022 #throwbackthursday A little big something different this Thursday. This Loco was originally built in Leeds UK, which was then purchased by Tully Sugar in 1924. It worked as Loco No.5 until retirement in the 1960's! The body is now owned by Simon Hudson who owns a restoration company in the UK. Once the loco is fully restored he would love to have it visit Tully for a run back to where it spent its life. How amazing would it be to see this piece of history back on our tracks!

13.01.2022 Tully Sugar Limited & Mission Beach Lions Club lovingly donated money to our school this year. With this donation we purchased a Buddy Bench from Replas - Recyc...led Plastic Products . The idea is simple - if a child feels lonely, they can go to the bench as a signal that they need someone to play with. Another child will see them, go and talk to them and include them in their games. Thank you so much for your generosity See more

13.01.2022 As part of our Capital Expenditure program Pan No. 2 is being replaced this maintenance season. After 55 years this pan has reached the end of its serviceable life. The replacement is being installed in the same location and is designed to the most current standards with an increase in capacity from 54 cubic meters, now 63 cubic meters. This is a significant task, with the most noticeable major stage completed recently of lifting the 4 large section into place with a 250 to...nne hydraulic crane. The success to date is the result of contributions by several parties, including: Specifications provided by SRI/QUT, Design, fabrication and project management by Bundaberg Walkers Engineering Ltd Installation by Tropic Weld and Century Cranes under the management of Bundaberg Walkers Engineering Ltd Additional construction activities by Tully Sugar personnel Completion of this replacement is critical to the performance of the 2020 crushing season. See more

13.01.2022 Fun Fact Friday Have you seen the tall cane stems towering on the sides of the highway? Find out on the 8th November how sugar cane is grown!

12.01.2022 2021 Tully Sugar Ltd Apprenticeship intake. L-R Lachlan Gallagher, Lachlan O’Kane, Amos Fischer-Smith, Jomen Cachia, Ky Romano, Nicholas Frumento, Timothy Maher, Riley Messina Lachlan Gallagher & Riley Messina Electrical Lachlan O’Kane & Ky Romano Mechanical... Jomen Cachia & Nicholas Frumento Fabrication Timothy MaherDiesel Fitting Amos Fischer-SmithPlumbing See more

11.01.2022 Fun Fact Friday Have you been on one of our mill tours? You can experience behind the scenes of one of the biggest sugar mills in Queensland! Tully Sugar Mill is capable of producing 300 thousand tons of raw sugar per year. How sweet is that!

11.01.2022 Fun Fact Friday #! This time of year you will see many paddocks with young cane growing through the cane trash. We call these new crops after harvest "ratoons". Ratoons grow from buds underground on the root mass known as cane stool. Once emerged, these buds grow into a new cane stalk, typically there are 2-3 stools per metre and around 10 stalks per metre in sugar cane. You will usually notice plenty of activity in ratoons from about late August - September as the crops are fertilised and sprayed with herbicide to control any weeds that come through the trash blanket.

11.01.2022 #throwbackthursday REPOST__ A cane harvester and bin hauling in the late 1960's. Notice the nicely air conditioned cabs - hot and dirty in those days!... Thank you George Dalziel for sharing this throwback photo.

11.01.2022 Factory Tour #4 Heading from the shredder to the extraction station, this is the next process in sugar making. Sets of rollers feed the cane through a series of five crushing mills, each mill consists of three large rollers arranged in a triangular formation. This process separates the sugar juice from the the fibrous material we call bagasse. From here the juice is pumped away for processing into raw sugar and the bagasse is recycled as a fuel for the mill boiler furnaces. ... See tomorrow's post to know more about how we use bagasse in the factory!

11.01.2022 Fun Fact Friday Welcoming in the new year with our first Fun Fact Friday of 2020! Bagasse is the fibrous material remaining after the cane has passed through the milling train, we have mentioned before that bagasse is used to provide electricity and heat for sugar process. As well as being used to fuel the boiler plant, which provides steam to power the entire factory including our electricity generating turbines. Bagasse is also stored for use in the lead up to the start of the crushing season and when wet weather disrupts harvesting operations. This makes our factory virtually independent of external energy needs during the crushing season!

10.01.2022 It's #funfactfriday! #: Sugar is the second-largest export crop in Australia after wheat with a total annual revenue of around AU$2.5 billion!

10.01.2022 On the 22nd of March this year United Nations Water celebrated World Water Day #FunFact Did you Know... Sugarcane can be grown as an irrigated or non-irrigated crop but requires at least 1,100mm of rain per year or equivalent water from irrigation!

08.01.2022 Fun Fact! Did you know that Tully Sugar has a bin fleet of over 1600 units and during the year they each make over 150 trips to and from the mill carrying cane? Many people keep a lookout for their favourite bin number or count the number of bins while waiting at cane crossings. Photo by Emma G

07.01.2022 NATIONAL 'LOOK UP AT THE SKY' DAY! Look Up At The Sky Day encourages us to admire the beauty above us. On this day we all hope for good weather and an opportunity to fill our eyes with the sky from horizon to horizon. Spend time watching the clouds in the day. At night, investigate the constellations and planets or watch for a falling star. ... We all know how important good weather conditions are to our farming community. Make sure you wish upon that falling star you see tonight Share your findings using #LookUpAtTheSkyDay . . . . . . . #tullysugar #tullysugarmill #tullysugarlimited #sugarmill #tully #tullyfnq #tullynq #northqueensland #farnorthqueensland #fnq #explorefnq #exploretnq #tropicalcoastqueensland #sugarcane #canegrowers #tullyhistory #lookup #lookupatthesky #beauty

06.01.2022 Another great review! Thankyou Rob and Shiela for coming to visit the Tully Sugar Mill, we are glad you enjoyed the tour.

06.01.2022 "Great results come from good relationships". That's the key message coming from all of our reef programs, which is highlighted by this short video showcasing t...he Wet Tropics Sugar Industry Partnership's work over the last few years to deliver the Australian Government's Reef Trust III program. Australian Department of the Environment and Energy Entry Level Programs Warren Entsch MP Sussan Ley MP Queensland Farmers' Federation Reef Alliance CANEGROWERS Herbert Cane Productivity Services Ltd Ingham Mossman Agricultural Services Sugar Research Australia Tully Sugar Limited Great Barrier Reef Foundation See more

06.01.2022 The LAST bin has been tipped for 2019! Two weeks ago the team at Tully Sugar Limited tipped the last bin of sugar cane for the 2019 crushing season. Thank you to all our hard working employees for such a great year! See the final crushing statistics for week 23 ending Tuesday 12/11/19 below.

05.01.2022 An important safety message from Tully Sugar Limited.

05.01.2022 TSL and SRA have updated the Tully Fallow Crop booklet developed in 2018 to assist Tully growers in deciding which type of fallow crop to plant. With the 2019 crushing season due to finish soon, TSL are running grower meetings in October to discuss fallow crops and provide this updated booklet. Local resellers are also invited to provide information on seed availability for the upcoming fallow crop season.

04.01.2022 By Products of Sugar - MOLASSES In general, 100 tonnes of sugar cane will yield 10-11 tonnes of sugar and 3-4 tonnes of molasses. Molasses comes in about midway through the process of turning sugar cane into refined sugar. To put it simply ... 1. Sugarcane is harvested and stripped of leaves 2. Its juice is extracted by crushing 3. The juice is boiled to promote sugar crystallization 4. The raw sugar is spun to force remaining liquid (molasses) off of the crystals 5. Step 4 can be repeated multiple times, resulting in first molasses, second molasses, and third or final molasses. Because the molasses is spun off in stages, molasses can range from golden-brown and mild to nearly black and bitter. The darker the molasses - the more bitter it is! . . . . . . . #tullysugar #tullysugarmill #tullysugarlimited #sugarmill #tully #tullyfnq #tullynq #northqueensland #farnorthqueensland #fnq #explorefnq #exploretnq #tropicalcoastqueensland #sugarcane #canegrowers #byproduct #molasses

04.01.2022 Have you ever seen a Gerbera so big and bright Our Gardner has been working very hard in our gardens this year.. hoping they will be blooming just as beautiful next year for the Flower Show Tully Sugar is wishing everybody a happy Friday and a safe weekend. We hope everyone is enjoying the school holidays!

04.01.2022 Congratulations to the Wet Tropics Sugar Industry Partnership which is a finalist for the Reef Community Champion Award! With 17 partners from across the sugar ...industry, the Partnership has delivered an estimated 10 per cent reduction in dissolved inorganic nitrogen flowing off cane farms to the Great Barrier Reef. More information here: ow.ly/9Yna30pSeS5. The Reef Champion Award winners will be announced on Tuesday 26 November. Stay tuned as we announce the winners tonight!

04.01.2022 A short film looking into the life of Queensland sugar cane cutters, made by the National Film Board in 1948. Watch the video below of a day in the life of our hardworking cane cutters . Thank you Caroline Kane for sharing this video!

04.01.2022 Can you guess what is being held in these? We will give you a clue, just a spoonful helps the medicine go down, in a most delightful way! We will be posting more behind the scenes of the factory soon!

04.01.2022 Fun Fact Friday Sugar cane is grown by replanting part of a mature cane stalk, the stalks are cut into 40cm lengths called setts. New shoots will grow from the joints of the setts, each sett shooting up to 12 stalks. Forming what is known as the stool of sugarcane.

04.01.2022 Thankyou for such a lovely review! We are glad you gained more knowledge and insight into our mill & sugar production. Have you been on a Mill Tour recently? We would love to hear from you! Leave a review on our Facebook page or on TripAdvisor.

04.01.2022 Happy Easter Wishing Everyone a safe and extra relaxing long weekend Tully Sugar Team

04.01.2022 The team at Tully Sugar Limited wishes you a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! Thank you for your continued support and hard work. Looking forward to seeing you all in the new year!

03.01.2022 Fun Fact Friday Did you see our factory tour #5 on Wednesday? We are taking you behind the scenes of the raw sugar production process at the Tully Sugar Mill. During clarification, cane juice contains some soil and other undesirable impurities, after filtration muddy juice is extracted from the bottom of the clarifiers and is mixed with fine bagasse. The mixture is filtered again through rotary vacuum filters which extract any remaining juice. This creates filter mud, which is high in nutrients and is recycled back onto the cane farms and in gardens.

02.01.2022 Cane crushing season is officially underway for Tully Sugar Limited and MSF Sugar which means cane trains are operating all around our region! Please be CANE ...TRAIN AWARE this season and "Play it safe and stay away from cane trains". Remember cane trains run 24 hours, 7 days a week! Some tips for the upcoming season: Be patient on the roads and familiarise yourself with cane train crossing and road signs Keep an eye out for flashing lights at level crossings on major roads Not ALL Crossing have flashing lights, drive safely and follow all road signs Keep an eye on the kids and educate our children to stay away from cane rail tracks If you see an oncoming train STOP - do not speed up or try beat the train across Be alert, stay safe and spread awareness Take care this cane season

02.01.2022 Fun Fact Friday In just under 2 months Tully Sugar Mill produced 3,946 tonnes of raw sugar. To date in 2019, a total of 2,179,072 tonnes of cane was crushed, resulting in 290,555 tonnes of raw sugar being made. What a difference since our company first began!

01.01.2022 Tully Sugar Limited’s Cane Supply and Transport Manager Tom Peatey stands upon Locomotive 3 in the Mill yard keenly awaiting the commencement of the 2020 crush season. Steam can be seen rising from the Chimney of one of our Boiler’s as the maintenance season draws to a close and the final testing and preparations to the factory are made.

01.01.2022 We are not out of cane season yet! Cane trains are still crushing so please use caution when approaching a cane train crossing and STOP at the flashing lights. Below are some ways you can prevent accidents from happening: - Follow the signage located at our passive railway level crossings (they are the sign posted level crossings without flashing lights.)... - Stop at the active railway level crossings when the lights are flashing. - Pedestrians including school children are to cross the cane railway corridor, especially through town at the existing road level crossings. Keep safe these school holidays and remember to look out for cane trains!