The Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC produces sugar from sugar beets grown by over 700 members of our parent cooperative, Snake River Sugar Company. Amalgamated Sugar is the second largest manufacturer of sugar from sugar beets in the United States and sells Read more…
In 2007, Steve Applehans partnered up with two of his sons, Dominic and Joey, and changed the name back to the original Silver Engineering Works. Their team provides over 90% of the sugar equipment (Crystallizers, Continuous Centrifuges, Fiberizers, etc.) utilized Read more…
In 1983, Steve Applehans joined the Silver team with father Don and brother Ron. In 1986, Ted Milner, an engineer for Silver, designed the 3630, 4630, and the 5230 Continuous Centrifuges which was groundbreaking technology that forever changed the way Read more…
During WW II, the Department of the Navy commissioned Silver to design and build landing barges for the South Pacific Theater of Operations. The subsections of twenty-four ships were prefabricated in the Denver, shipped to California via railroad, and assembled Read more…
Silver Engineering Works was started in 1933 by Harold Silver and Fred Roberts. With a total capital of $5,000, they took over the old Box Iron Works and invented the Ogden Beet Piler, 1st commercially usable sugar diffuser, and the Read more…