Industrial beet sugar (Achard's factory)
Azúcar de remolacha industrial (fábrica de Achard)
- Date
- 1801 · confidence high
- Place
- Konary (Kunern), Lower Silesia, Poland
- Credited to
- Franz Karl Achard
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Achard started up in 1801, with support from the King of Prussia, the first beet sugar factory. After the Napoleonic Continental Blockade the industry multiplied across Europe.
The factory was at Kunern (now Konary). Yields were low and it was not profitable until beet and extraction improved.
What it led to
- the 19th-century European beet industry
- falling sugar prices and strategic value
- breeding of sugar beet (Vilmorin)