M.A.Patout & Son, Ltd.

Interesting Facts

About Us!

• M.A.Patout & Son, Sterling Sugars, and Raceland Raw Sugars 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.

Machinery

• 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.

Shipment

• All shipments are by railroads, truck, and barge.
• All cane is received by tractor and truck.

Expansion

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