Domino Sugar

The parent company of Domino Sugar, whose iconic sign lights up at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, said Thursday it completed its acquisition of Tate & Lyle PLC's European sugar refining business. American Sugar Refining Inc., which owns the Baltimore sugar refinery, announced the $314 million deal in July. Under the transaction, ASR bought cane sugar refineries in London and Lisbon as well as the license to use the Tate & Lyle sugar brand. American Sugar Refining markets its products under the Domino, C&H and Redpath brands.

Domino Sugar is donating 30,200 pounds of its products to the Community Food Bank of New Jersey to help victims of the massive storm called Sandy, the company announced Monday. Trucks carrying the Domino products - including brown, powdered and granulated sugars, coffee service canisters and powdered drink mixes - left Baltimore's Inner Harbor refinery Monday for storm-ravaged New Jersey. "For our company, Hurricane Sandy hit home," said Stu FitzGibbon, the Baltimore refinery's manager, in a statement.

A 66-year-old man was seriously injured at the Domino Sugar factory in Baltimore on Sunday afternoon when his right arm was caught in a large piece of machinery, according to the city Fire Department. Emergency personnel responded to the refinery in the 1100 block of Key Highway in Riverside at 2:54 p.m., and began providing medical treatment to the man as workers labored to disassemble the machine and free the man's arm, said Captain Roman Clark, a fire spokesman. "He was stuck there for an hour and 45 minutes," Clark said.

A 66-year-old man was seriously injured at the Domino Sugar factory in Baltimore on Sunday afternoon when his right arm was caught in a large piece of machinery, according to the city Fire Department. Emergency personnel responded to the refinery in the 1100 block of Key Highway in Riverside at 2:54 p.m., and began providing medical treatment to the man as workers labored to disassemble the machine and free the man's arm, said Captain Roman Clark, a fire spokesman. "He was stuck there for an hour and 45 minutes," Clark said.

Domino Sugar is donating 30,200 pounds of its products to the Community Food Bank of New Jersey to help victims of the massive storm called Sandy, the company announced Monday. Trucks carrying the Domino products - including brown, powdered and granulated sugars, coffee service canisters and powdered drink mixes - left Baltimore's Inner Harbor refinery Monday for storm-ravaged New Jersey. "For our company, Hurricane Sandy hit home," said Stu FitzGibbon, the Baltimore refinery's manager, in a statement.

Eleanor M. Burke, a lab worker at Domino Sugar and a volunteer at Bon Secours Hospital, died Thursday at St. Agnes HealthCare after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage at her home in Catonsville. She was 90. The youngest surviving daughter of Polish immigrants, she was born Eleanor Schultz in her parents' home in Canton and had lived in southwest Baltimore County for most of her life. She dropped out of Catonsville High School to support her family during the Depression, taking a job in 1930 at the Domino Sugar refinery in Locust Point.

James Allen Moore, a retired Domino Sugar Corp. plant manager and a longtime volunteer, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 83.In 1937, just out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr. Moore started his 41-year career with Domino Sugar as an intern. After six months, he moved into a paid position and soon transferred to the company's Baltimore refinery.In Baltimore, he set out to learn every aspect of the business."He worked in accounting, he worked in quality control, he worked in manufacturing, he worked in the marketing department," said a son-in-law, Gregory Pinkard of Lutherville.

Karl Beetz, a retired machinist and maintenance mechanic, died May 25 of heart failure at his Timonium home. He was 90. The son of a mason and a homemaker, Karl Beetz was born and raised in Kronach, Germany. After he graduated in 1938 from a technical high school in his hometown, he was inducted into the German Navy. Mr. Beetz served for four years aboard a minesweeper, attaining the rank of sergeant. Shortly after the war, Mr. Beetz immigrated to Baltimore where his brother Henry Beetz was living.

John H. "Jack" Meyers Sr., a retired Domino Sugar supervisor and decorated World War II veteran who was commander of a state ex-prisoner of war group, died of cancer Thursday at the Baltimore Washington Medical Center. The Glen Burnie resident was 86. Born in Baltimore and raised in Ferndale, he was a 1942 graduate of Glen Burnie High School and played football for the Linthicum Heights Athletic Association. He joined the Army during World War II and trained with an infantry unit in Africa.

A worker at the Domino Sugar factory in Baltimore died early yesterday in a forklift accident - Maryland's first industrial workplace fatality this year, authorities said. City paramedics responded to the waterfront factory, in the 1100 block of Key Highway, at 2:42 a.m., according to Chief Kevin Cartwright, a city Fire Department spokesman. They found a man suffering from trauma to his head near a forklift, he said. Paramedics pronounced the man dead at the scene. None of the city or state agencies involved in the investigation - nor his employer or the union that represented him - would release the man's name yesterday.

Karl Beetz, a retired machinist and maintenance mechanic, died May 25 of heart failure at his Timonium home. He was 90. The son of a mason and a homemaker, Karl Beetz was born and raised in Kronach, Germany. After he graduated in 1938 from a technical high school in his hometown, he was inducted into the German Navy. Mr. Beetz served for four years aboard a minesweeper, attaining the rank of sergeant. Shortly after the war, Mr. Beetz immigrated to Baltimore where his brother Henry Beetz was living.

The Baltimore skyline is iconic: The National Aquarium's blue waves and the World Trade Center's five-sided building have been depicted in places as varied as Robert McClintock paintings and local body art. The Domino Sugar sign is - well, it's the Domino Sugar sign. It's priceless. Exelon Corp.'s Baltimore office, proposed to be built on the old Allied Chemical site in Harbor Point, would alter that skyline forever. In that context, it too needs to be iconic. The proposed office building has been treated by the mayor's office as simply a necessity of the Exelon merger with Constellation Energy.

The parent company of Domino Sugar, whose iconic sign lights up at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, said Thursday it completed its acquisition of Tate & Lyle PLC's European sugar refining business. American Sugar Refining Inc., which owns the Baltimore sugar refinery, announced the $314 million deal in July. Under the transaction, ASR bought cane sugar refineries in London and Lisbon as well as the license to use the Tate & Lyle sugar brand. American Sugar Refining markets its products under the Domino, C&H and Redpath brands.

John H. "Jack" Meyers Sr., a retired Domino Sugar supervisor and decorated World War II veteran who was commander of a state ex-prisoner of war group, died of cancer Thursday at the Baltimore Washington Medical Center. The Glen Burnie resident was 86. Born in Baltimore and raised in Ferndale, he was a 1942 graduate of Glen Burnie High School and played football for the Linthicum Heights Athletic Association. He joined the Army during World War II and trained with an infantry unit in Africa.

At Domino Sugar, workers have competed to lose weight. At Laureate Education, employees get a small subsidy toward a gym membership. At apparel designer 180s, workers are encouraged to work out at lunch. Even in a recession, employers say they are putting money into corporate wellness programs they hope will lead to healthier workers and healthier profits. For many businesses, doing so will be a matter of survival as the cost of health care soars along with chronic health problems, corporate wellness experts say. Experts contend that improving workers' health can also reduce costs associated with absenteeism and workers' compensation.

A worker at the Domino Sugar factory in Baltimore died early yesterday in a forklift accident - Maryland's first industrial workplace fatality this year, authorities said. City paramedics responded to the waterfront factory, in the 1100 block of Key Highway, at 2:42 a.m., according to Chief Kevin Cartwright, a city Fire Department spokesman. They found a man suffering from trauma to his head near a forklift, he said. Paramedics pronounced the man dead at the scene. None of the city or state agencies involved in the investigation - nor his employer or the union that represented him - would release the man's name yesterday.

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Francis Joseph Chmilewski, a retired Domino Sugars Co. mechanic and veteran of two branches of the military, died of lung cancer July 13 at Mercy Medical Center. The Edgemere resident was 76. Mr. Chmilewski was born and raised in Baltimore and attended city public schools. He later earned his General Educational Development diploma while serving in the Army. "He lied about his age when he enlisted in the Navy, where he served for four years," said the former May Birkelien, his wife of 11 years.