McCahan Sugar Refining

Company History: The McCahan Sugar Refining company was producing sugar around 1900. They were involved in a major strike in 1917. In 1944, the American Sugar Refining Company contracted to purchase the refinery, business, trademarks and substantially all other assets of the W.J. McCahan Sugar Refining and Molasses Company of Philadelphia, subject to approval of stockholders of the latter company.

Successor/Parent History: The American Sugar Refining Company (ASR) was the most significant American business unit in the sugar refining industry in the early 1900s. It had interests in Puerto Rico and other Caribbean locations and operated one of the world's largest sugar refineries, the Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, New York.

The Domino brand name was acquired in 2001 by Florida Crystals Corporation and rebranded as American Sugar Refining, a new company created in 1998 and unrelated to the prior firm by that name.

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