This shows the centre of the British Sugar factory at Ipswich. The processing plant, storage tanks, coal stores and pipes connecting different parts of the factory can all be seen. The factory has been built on the low lying flood-plain next to the River Gipping and the A14. It has similar locational factors to the British Sugar plant at Bury St Edmunds though it is much smaller.

This plant services 787 growers who together produce 800,000 tonnes of beet each year. East Anglia generally consumes sugar that has been produced from sugar beet. Other areas of the country use sugar that has been processed from sugar cane produced in other parts of the world.