Beta San Miguel is Mexico’s second largest sugar producer, and the largest privately owned producer . In 2007-2008 it produced 568,865 tons of sugar, or 10.30 % of all the sugar produced in Mexico for that cycle. The company was founded in November 1988 when it acquired four sugar mills from the Mexican government. Privatization of the sugar industry took place between 1988 and 1992.
 
Beta San Miguel was established in 1987 with the objective of participate in the privatization process. It is owned by group of investors led by Polycrom, S.A. de C.V., a company with many years’ experience in the Mexican sugar industry. The other investors are large industrial consumers of sugar. In July 1996 Beta San Miguel acquired a fifth sugar mill, Constancia, which was founded in 1912, and was one of the 14 mills that remained in private ownership during the 1970s and 80s after the government took over most of the nation’s sugar mills. 
 
Since the beginning of its operations the corporation has increased its sugar production by 99.5 %, from 255,393 tons in its first complete harvest in 1990 to 568,865 tons in 2008. This increase has been achieved by increased sugar mills’ efficiency, purchasing better quality sugar cane and by adding another plant.
 

The company’s five mills are: San Francisco Ameca, located in Ameca, Jalisco; Quesería, located in Quesería, Colima; San Rafael de Pucté, located in Chetumal, Quintana Roo; San Miguel del Naranjo, located in Naranjo, San Luis Potosí; and Constancia, located in Tezonapa, Veracruz.  The sugar produced by the company is standard and white sugar. Beta San Miguel also produces cane molasses, a byproduct of sugar. It is used in one of the plants for making alcohol or sold as an ingredient to food processing plants for livestock or industrial chemicals.

   
 
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