C&H History Nearly a century ago, on March 10, 1906, the California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company began refining cane sugar, bringing new life and a mainland market to the Hawaiian sugar industry. The early C&H provided a new source of refined sugar to the U.S. Refining began in the small town of Crockett, California, a quiet community thirty miles northeast of San Francisco. Cargo ships sailed into the Carquinez Strait to offload raw sugar from the islands onto the Crockett wharves. By the end of 1906, the refinery employed 490 people and produced 67,000 tons of refined Hawaiian cane sugar. Since 1906, one sugar company has been known throughout the industry for products of uncompromising quality, consistency and freshness. That company is C&H Sugar. Copyright ©2000, C&H Sugar Legal Notices & Privacy Policy