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November/December 2012
an eerie lunar landscape inside the Raw
Sugar Shed. The shed can hold 65 million
pounds of raw sugar, enough to fill Oriole
Park at Camden Yards to a depth of two feet.
As true today as it was 90 years ago,
the central location of the Port of Baltimore
is key to the plant’s success.
Sugar was once made by hand in small
sugar shacks, and only the wealthy could
afford to pay for the difficult process, while
the poor depended on honey or molasses.
That changed in New York City in 1807
when William and Frederick Havermeyer
established a refinery and figured out how
to mechanize the tedious process. Their
descendents later changed the name to the
American Sugar Refining Company, Domino
Sugar’s parent company. The company also
was innovative in branding its product,
steering consumers from bulk sugar to
prepackaged sugar, including cubes that
resembled the playing tiles of dominoes,
hence the name.
Baltimore was chosen as a site for a
new factory because of its proximity to
Philadelphia and the Chesapeake Bay, as
well as its rail access. In the early days, the
plant was fired by coal, which was brought
in by rail. Today, railroad tanker cars are
filled with liquid sugar.
“Our position in Baltimore is dead-set
in the Mid-Atlantic corridor,” FitzGibbon
said. “The Port of Baltimore is a unique
advantage over many other ports. The Port
of Baltimore is key to the U.S. food supply,
and having a facility in the Inner Harbor is
absolutely imperative.”
He paused to take in a dramatic view
of the Inner Harbor from the upper floors
of the factory. “Manufacturing is not dead
in the United States,” FitzGibbon said. “The
economic downturn has raised awareness
of the need for manufacturing facilities.”
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Domino Sugar
EMPLOYS 610
people
and indirectly generates 1,220 jobs.
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The company estimates it
INJECTS $130 MILLION
into the
local economy in the form of personal
income and local consumption.
At-A-Glance
