Simbhaoli Sugars kicks off 4K TCD plant at UP

New Delhi, Dec 15 (UNI) Simbhaoli Sugars Ltd (SSL) today announced commissioning of its greenfield sugar unit at Brijnathpur, Uttar Pradesh, set up at a cost of Rs 127 crore.

The capacity of the plant is 4,000 tonnes crushed per day (TCD) and is expandable to 5,000 TCD.

''We have given extra care to the quality of sugar being produced at our Brijnathpur unit. We will use complete automation at this plant with an additional melting of the sugar produced to ensure best standards of hygiene and quality to serve our clients, particularly the pharmaceutical and premium institutional ones,'' said SSL Chairman and Managing Director G S Mann.

The sugar produced from the plant would be of less than 45 ICUMSA. With the high quality standards, the company expects to export the entire sugar to replace EU vacated refined markets.

Simbhaoli and Brijnathpur sugar plants of SSL will form a sugarcane area of over one lakh hectare, starting form Garh Ganga to Dadri, which will have an opportunity to develop cane and multiple cropping systems within the entire area.

With proximity to the sugarcane feilds and Simbhaoli sugar unit, the company expects to enjoy synergies of operation.

''We foresee substantial revenue generation from the ongoing crushing season with the commissioning of the Brijnathpur sugar unit. The company is also starting production of sugar from its expanded capacity at the Chilwaria sugar unit,'' Mr Mann said.

He added that the total sugarcane crushing capacity of Simbhaoli Sugars will reach to 20,100 TCD from month-end with an objective to produce 2,70,000 million tonnes of sugar in a season.

The new sugar unit is a part of Rs 423-crore-capex plans chalked out by SSL to avail the benefits of the UP incentive policy, 2004.

It will also be integrated with an eight MW co-generation plant and an ethanol unit of 60 KLD by the end of FY07.

The company's facilities have a total installed sugarcane crushing capacity of 13,300 TCD and are capable of manufacturing up to 2,00,000 MTPA of sugar.

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