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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2016-06-29

"The refinery has its own machine shop to make replacement parts for equipment that is long out of production. Melding these geriatric machines with their newer technology into a cohesive production unit is no easy feat.

"'Making sugar--it seems like it's not rocket science,' said Ann-Margaret Deavers an environmental engineer at the Domino plant, 'but actually it is.'"

-- from The Last Of Its Kind: Domino Sugar Perseveres In Baltimore's Inner Harbor" by David Gutman, 2012-10-24

[According to the article, some of the original machinery there from 90+ years ago is still in use alongside modern equipment. And yes, the 70'x120' neon Domino Sugar sign is one of the "you can tell you're in Baltimore" features visible from my house, though in the last few years a a tree a few blocks away has gotten tall enough to hide a lot of it when leaning out my bedroom window to look. I can see the some letters peeking between branches; it's more recognizeable in winter when those branches are bare. It used to be completely unobtructed.]

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