Pleystowe sugar mill, 2016

Pleystowe Sugar Mill is a former sugar mill in Pleystowe, Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. It is owned by Mackay Sugar.[1][2] It closed in October 2008 after 139 years, having been the oldest operating sugar mill in Australia at the time of its closure.[3] However, the site continues to provide a number of centralised services to other operating mills within the Mackay Sugar group.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Pleystowe Mill". Mackay Sugar. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Pleystowe Sugar Mill". Mackay Historical Society and Museum Incorporated. Archived from the original on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Bittersweet memories as Australia's oldest sugar mill shuts its doors". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 30 October 2008. Archived from the original on 10 September 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Our mills". Mackay Sugar. Archived from the original on 1 March 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2016.

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