“In the UK, British Sugar dominates around two-thirds of all the country’s sugar production. Operating within a highly regulated and controlled market, pricing structures leave little room for profit margins, emphasizing the importance of operational efficiencies. At some point those processes were so streamlined there was no room to squeeze profits.
Then someone suggested that all the hot air from the sugar making process be collected and pumped into a neighboring greenhouse.
And that’s how in 02006, British Sugar’s flagship beet factory in West Norfolk became the country’s tomato capital!”