About Us

M.A. Patout & Son, Sterling Sugars, and Raceland Raw Sugar are growers and processors of sugar cane from which raw sugar, cane syrup, and blackstrap molasses are produced in Southern Louisiana.
They produce eatable invert syrup.
They produce molasses.
All raw sugar produced has a pol of 98.0º to 99.5º.
Total land owned is 43,000 acres.
Sugar, syrups and molasses are sold under long-term contracts. For more information contact Craig Caillier or Thomas Duhe.

M.A. Patout & Son uses four continuous and automatic vacuum pans of South African design.
Two complete machine shops are maintained for factory equipment repairs, along with reshelling and grooving of mill rolls.
M.A.Patout & Son has the first and only cane diffuser operating in North America.
A 10,000 metric ton per day cane diffuser of South African design is in use today.
M.A.Patout & Son maintains two shops for complete repair of trucks and field equipment.

All three factories have been on a ten-year expansion and will continue for another five years.

Board of Directors

Franklin William Patout
Chairman of the Board

William S. Patout III
Robert B. Patout
J. Jared Patout
Jaques H. Hebert
James R. Keys
James W. Kinsler

Craig P. Caillier
President & CEO
M.A. Patout & Son, Ltd and Subsidiaries

Wilson A. LeBlanc, Sr.
Vice President and Factory Operations

J. Jared Patout
Secretary and Treasurer

Thomas G. Duhe
Recording Secretary

Randall K. Romero
Chief Financial Officer