Simbhaoli Sugar expands capacity with sugar technology mission assistance
By Our Corporate Bureau | 05 Dec 2005
The new facility, which is close to the earlier plant, will also have a power cogeneration unit utilising the waste heat generated in the production of sulphur dioxide, used to purify the cane juice.
TIFAC, an autonomous body under the department of science and technology, has developed a new membrane separation technique for cane juice purification under the technology mission for sugar, which has been installed at Simbhaoli Sugar Mills' existing plant at Simbhaoli.
TIFAC has been entrusted with the overall responsibility to keep a technology watch on global trends and formulate preferred technology options for India, sugar having been identified as a thrust area for comprehensive modernisation and technology upgradation. TIFAC chairman Dr R Chidambaram is a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and former secretary, department of atomic energy.
Simultaneously, the company's Chilwara plant at the Bahraich district of UP, is being expanded from 3,800 TCD to 6,000 TCD with funding from State Bank of India.
A 60-kiloliter per day capacity ethanol distillery is also being set up adjoining the sugar plant, to convert it into an integrated sugar complex. ICICI bank is funding the ethanol project,.
STM projects have been provided concessional finance — 60 per cent of project cost being financed at a 6 per cent interest rate — from the sugar development fund (SDF) of the ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution.
So far 35 sugar factories have been surveyed and their detailed project reports
prepared. SDF loans for 19 of these factories have already been sanctioned and are at various stages of implementation. In each of these factories certain areas of excellence are focused, based on individual plant configuration.