The sugar factory started its activities beside the Senate Square in 1806. A shopkeeper by the name of Bernhard Manecke sold it to Feodor Kiseleff in 1812. The new owner was asked to move the factory further away from the city centre. This was not only because of the unpleasant smell but also the fire hazard and a housing shortage in the new capital. The factory's relocation to the shore of the Töölö bay took place in 1823. Mr Kiseleff already owned a villa and a brickworks in the area, and there was a suitable quay for the shipments of raw sugar.

Ships carried the sugar required from London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Stockholm, Cuba, Brazil, and Java.
     The new sugar factory was built at the junction of the present-day Mannerheimintie street and Helsinginkatu street. The architect Carl Ludvig Engel designed the three-storey building. By the 1870s, the factory was the biggest in Finland. The production of sugar continued on the shore of the Töölö bay until 1965 when it shifted operations to Kantvik in Kirkkonummi, west of Helsinki.