Home > Our Offices > Departments > Audubon Sugar Institute > News > Sugar processing in Louisiana [Image: Cora Texas Manufacturing Co. sugar factory at White Castle, La] Of all the U.S. sugar-producing areas,Louisiana is the oldest and most historic. Sugarcane arrived in Louisiana in1751 with the Jesuit priests who planted it near where their church now stands on Baronne Street in New Orleans. The Louisiana sugarcane industry is in its third century of uninterrupted sugar production. First Woman Member of Patent Club Announced [Image: Dr. Giovanna DeQueiroz received her Patent Club recognition from LSU AgCenter Chancellor Bill Richardson] Audubon proudly announces the addition of Post Doctoral Researcher, Dr. Giovanna DeQueiroz, to the ranks of AgCenter's prestigous Patent & PVP Club.Three added to Patent Club at a ceremony on September 10, 2006. Wash Water Spray Manifolds Tested [Image: Washwater Spray Manifolds] The sugar quality is an area of much interest to the Louisiana sugarcane industry, and the effects of washing the sugar in the centrifugals, different boiling schemes for production of VLC sugar and sugar quality changes during storage are being investigated at Audubon Sugar Institute (ASI) with the support of the Louisiana sugar mills. Research Paper Presented at 7th Congress of the Colombian Association of Sugarcane Technologists [Image: Cover of Nicolas Gil's Paper presented at the Colombian Association of Sugar Cane Technologists's conference in Cali, Colombia in 2006] ASI Graduate Student, Nicholas Gil presented a paper on his research to add value to sugar cane leaves and tops at the 7th Congress of the Colombian Association of Sugarcane Technologists in Cali, Colombia.  more articles... Study: Molasses Shows Promise For Ethanol Production Molasses, a byproduct of sugar production in the U.S., shows promise as a viable source of raw material to make ethanol, according to new research done by LSU's Audubon Sugar Institute, that looked into the feasibility of producing fuel from sugar and sugar-related products. This article was written by Bill Tomson of Dow Jones Newswires and posted 7/10/06 on CattleNetwork.com website. Click title to read more... Potential Market for Biorefinery Lignin [Image: Structure of the Lignin Molecule (Courtesy of Espere).] Dr. Jairo H. Lora, an internationally recognized expert on chemistry and production of lignin, visited Audubon on August 15, 2006 and gave an informal presentation on “Lignin: Chemistry Production Market”.