CCSI Cork Crowncap Database - Brewer/Bottler
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 Brewer/bottler #6638 | | | | Address | Plaza del Ingenio, nº 4 - Frigiliana (29788 Málaga). |
| | | | | | | | Extra info | The molasses "Ingenio Ntra. Sra. Del Carmen" has a length of 75 years. Its factory in Frigiliana (Málaga), continues the tradition of making honey, introduced by the Arabs in Spain, from sugarcane.
Currently the only factory molasses that exists in Europe. Sugar cane is grown only in a very narrow strip of eastern Andalusia.
It is obtained industrially by perfect concentration of juice from sugar cane, after eliminating all impurities, so that retains all the beneficial active elements and vital principles for such southern plant.
In 1508, Queen Juana I of Castile gave the plots of land in Frigiliana which had been abandoned by Moriscos the year before to Íñigo Manrique de Lara, who was part of a new Castlian oligarchy in Málaga. The first sugar factory in the town was founded in 1630 by another Íñigo Manríque de Lara, the First Count of Frigiliana, but we do not know where it was exactly placed. The sugar cane factory that still exist was built in 1725 by the Count of Aguilar and Frigiliana and it was a preindustrial factory. Its facilities were always owned by the Counts of Frigiliana and they were modernized by them in the 19th and 20th century when a steam engine was brought in 1858 and some industrial machines. La Torre [Tower] Company, which was created by a local middle-class family that has been always dedicated to sugar cane honey production, obtained the factory in 1929 and has kept it working until today. Its last refurbishing was done in the 1950s, when two hexagonal chimneys were built. |
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