Domino Sugar Refinery Shows Yonkers Pride With New LED Welcome Sign

YONKERS, NY — Yonkers has a brand new "welcome" sign, thanks to one of the city's best known businesses.

The Domino Sugar Yonkers refinery, owned by American Sugar Refining, Inc., unveiled a new LED welcome sign in Yonkers Monday night. The sign, measuring 4 feet by 30 feet, combines the newly refreshed Domino Sugar logo with the city’s name in lettering that pays homage to the iconic sign on the Yonkers Recreation Pier downtown.

The YONKERS letters are illuminated with color-changing LEDs that can be adjusted seasonally.

"We take great pride in global companies that chose to make their products here in Yonkers and Domino Sugar just makes life a little sweeter here in this city," said Mayor Mike Spano.

The Domino Sugar plant in Yonkers has been making sugar for over 120 years. The sign will greet thousands of Metro-North and Amtrak commuters as they reach the city every day.

"Our new sign signals our company’s continued dedication to our refinery, our employees, our community and the City of Yonkers," said Yonkers Refinery Manager Tiffany Dunnell, of ASR Group. "We’re proud to call Yonkers home and plan to be here for generations to come."

Forty vessels a year deliver more than 515,000 tons of raw sugar to the plant, which is refined at a rate of more than 4.3 million pounds per day by over 300 employees. The refinery’s eight packaging lines produce 25 different premium products and package sizes.

Everybody loves sugar, but the sugar refinery is beloved in Yonkers for other reasons as well.

The Yonkers refinery has provided well-paying, union jobs for generations of families.

Domino Sugar invests millions of dollars annually in the regional economy through local purchasing, contracting and sales, property and payroll taxes. The company also invests in the nearby community around the refinery through partnerships with local non-profits, including Yonkers Partners in Education (YPIE), Feeding Westchester, the Yonkers Paddling and Rowing Club, the Yonkers Downtown/Waterfront BID and Greyston Foundation. Domino also supports STEM educational programming at local schools.