Before the sugar cane can be crushed in the mill, the canes have to be deprived of their leaves, and this is now done by hand. The invention we are about to describe is intended to supersede the ...

Known as “the Beast,” the massive Pu‘unēnē Mill could turn 7,000 tons of sugar cane into brown sugar crystals each day. After 115 years of production, its closure in 2016 ended an era. In 2018, owners ...