Thomas Astrup

American Crystal Sugar Company is an agricultural cooperative company, which is engaged in the production of sugar and related agri-products. The Company's segments include Sugar and Leasing. The sugar segment is engaged primarily in the production and marketing of sugar from sugarbeets. It also sells agri-products and sugarbeet seed. The leasing segment is engaged in the leasing of a corn wet milling plant used in the production of high-fructose corn syrup. The Company produces a range of industrial sugar products, such as Commercial Sugars, Bottlers Sugars, Canners Sugars, Liquid Sugar, Granulated Sugar, Powdered Sugar and Brown Sugar, for industrial customers. Its sugar processing approach results in a range of agri-products made from sugar beets. Its agri-products include beet pulp pellets, beet pulp shreds, beet molasses and raffinate.