- First the sugar cane is harvested, thoroughly washed and sent to the shredder. During the shredding process the cane is passed through a series of rotating blades that cause it to be reduced to small pieces. In this form the juice is much easier to be extracted.

- After crushing the cane juice is of a dark color, it needs to be clarified which removes all impurities allowing for the juice to be much cleaner and lighter in color. A thickener is added to the juice that allows for the impurities to clump together and rise to the top and a separating funnel is used to collect clarified juice. However, depending on the types of sugar needed the clarification process differs. For example, when brown sugar is needed, the sugar cane juice is just boiled but when granulated sugar is needed, the sugar cane juice is put through a process where the juice is boiled with other materials such as powdered lime (used in some places not all) and the mixture turns to a slight yellow color, which is left to stand and the juice at the bottom is separated using a large scale separating funnel.

- After the sugar is crystallized it is separated from the remaining liquid using  centrifugation. The sugar crystals are spun at high speeds within a centrifuge machine.  The spinning forces cause the crystal to be pressed into the edges of a centrifuge basket, while molasses is expelled through openings in the basket. This separation process leaves behind sugar with relatively low molasses content. Once separated the sugar crystals are washed with water to remove any wanted molasses on the surface.