The refinery was originally built in 1980 and had the daily refining capacity of 4,000 tons of sugar beet.

[1] In the 1990s the refinery experienced a steady decline in revenue and income which resulted in it being bought and re-bought several times in the late 1990s, before eventually being acquired by the Dutch company Cosun and shortly after that filing for bankruptcy in 1999, with debts totaling some 575 million HRK.

[2] The company had managed to successfully bounce back in the late 2000s and it became the biggest such refinery in Croatia, with a 37 percent market share in the local sugar refining sector as of 2007.

There remains very little questionable possibility of sugar cane processing, the so-called "yellow campaign".

Most workers will be laid off by management on severance pay (or minimum wage until the end of the year, with questionable status thereafter[7]) or will retire if they have the conditions.