An independent Sugar Refinery Restoration Feasibility Study evaluating a restoration of an idle sugar refinery to production in Santa Rosa, Texas.
SANTA ROSA, Texas — Wert-Berater, Inc., an independent feasibility study consulting firm serving lenders and government agencies since 1998, has completed a Sugar Refinery Restoration Feasibility Study in Santa Rosa, Texas.
Wert-Berater served as independent feasibility consultant in connection with the project’s financing. Party names are withheld consistent with the confidential nature of underwriting and capital-advisory work; figures represent the project as evaluated at the study date.
Restoration of an idle sugar refinery in Santa Rosa, Texas to full production through infrastructure rehabilitation, modernization, and recommissioning. The property includes approximately 359,000 square feet of industrial buildings, warehouses, processing facilities, and cane yards together with supporting utility infrastructure. At design capacity the facility processes approximately 2.05 million tons of cane annually, equivalent to roughly 246,000 tons of refined sugar.
The refinery’s Rio Grande Valley location provides dual-market access: the Texas market, which consumes more than 500,000 tons of refined sugar annually, and the established refining corridor served by Louisiana and Florida producers located far from the border. This dual access materially enhances revenue stability relative to a single-market processor and underpinned the demand analysis.
Total capitalization of $38,110,000, funded by $25,000,000 of USDA Business & Industry guaranteed debt and $13,110,000 of equity provided by aligned sponsors. The structure places roughly one-third of the capitalization in equity ahead of the guaranteed facility, consistent with the tangible-balance-sheet expectations of RD Instruction 5001.
Restoring a dormant heavy-processing asset concentrates risk in the technical dimension: rehabilitation scope, commissioning schedule, and cane supply contracting all had to be evidenced rather than assumed. The analysis therefore weighted contractor capability, equipment condition, and grower-supply arrangements alongside the financial projections, and stated each dependency plainly as a condition of the program rather than absorbing it into base-case assumptions.
Wert-Berater, Inc. is an independent feasibility study consulting firm founded in 1998, providing lender- and agency-facing feasibility studies, highest-and-best-use analyses, and capital-advisory support. The firm has completed more than 4,000 engagements across all 50 states and internationally, evaluating over $40.2 billion in project value for SBA, USDA, EB-5, conventional, and institutional financing decisions. In every engagement, fiduciary duty runs to the lender and the applicable agency.
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