Heat exchangers, evaporators, crystallizers, flash tanks, columns, vessels, tanks, and custom process equipment for sugar production and refining.
Harris Thermal has a long history of fabricating thermal and process equipment for the sugar industry. Our capabilities support heat transfer, evaporation, crystallization, separation, juice processing, storage, and other applications throughout sugar production and refining.
Sugar plants run hard on a seasonal cycle, and the equipment that concentrates and crystallizes the stream carries most of that load. We build that equipment to the process conditions your facility works to, and we build replacements to fit the plant that is already there.
Harris Thermal's project history includes extensive equipment fabrication for beet sugar processing, providing a strong foundation for supporting sugar producers and refiners across the industry.
Most sugar equipment is replaced rather than designed from scratch, and the constraint is rarely the duty — it is the envelope, the nozzles and the supports the unit has to drop into.
We work from existing drawings or field measurements, re-tube where the shell is sound, and re-rate where the duty has moved past the original basis. See repairs, re-tubing and re-rating.
Carbon steel and stainless steels cover most sugar duty, with higher alloys where the stream, temperature or cleaning regime calls for them. See our full materials and metallurgy capability.
How feed behaviour, materials and fabrication scale determine the right evaporator configuration — the same decision an evaporator station upgrade turns on.
Juice heaters, shell-and-tube heat exchangers, condensers, reheaters, process heaters and coolers, evaporators including falling-film designs, crystallizers, flash tanks, process and mixing vessels, storage tanks, separator vessels, process columns and towers, scrubber vessels and cyclones. Replacement exchangers and tube bundles are fabricated alongside new equipment.
Sugar production and refining generally. The heat transfer, evaporation, crystallization, separation and storage duties that run through a sugar facility are the same equipment types Harris Thermal has fabricated for more than a century across the process industries, and our project history includes extensive equipment fabrication for beet sugar processing. Harris Thermal fabricates equipment to the process design supplied by the producer, refiner or engineering firm; it does not supply complete sugar-processing plants.
Yes. Replacement heat exchangers and juice heaters built to existing envelope and nozzle geometry, replacement tube bundles for sound shells, evaporator and condenser equipment, vessels, flash tanks and custom fabricated equipment built around the interfaces already in the plant. Existing drawings, the current duty and the duty now required are the useful starting point.
Tell us the duty, the stream and the equipment you need replaced or added. Our engineers will work through it with you.