Saccharin Making Plant

Abstract

After discovery of saccharin in 1877 by professor I. Remen and professor C. Fahlberg of the United States, a small-scale plant was set up in New York in 1884, heralding its commercialization. With the rush of industrialization that followed in respective advanced nations, the market of saccharin has greatly expanded to occupy the weightiest position as an artificial sweetening agent. About 500 times as sweet as cane sugar, saccharin is in wide use as a substitute of sugar for foodstuffs, medicines and cosmetics. Due to the limi ta tion in sugar cane resources as raw materials of sugar, the demand for saccharin is on a steady increase.