For the ethanol supply year 2021-22, OMCs have floated national tenders for supply of 465 crore litres. Sugar mills in Maharashtra have filed bids to supply 111 crore litres of ethanol to oil marketing companies (OMC) for the ethanol supply year (December-November) 2021-22. This is expected to divert over 12 lakh tonne of sugar in…
Come September, Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda district will have a new sugar mill with a difference — it will not produce any sugar. Instead, the mill will convert the entire cane juice produced to ethanol for blending with petrol. This ethanol distillery of Balrampur Chini Mills Ltd is being built for Rs 450 crore on a…
Isgec Heavy Engineering has commissioned its largest Biomass Boilers for a Bio Ethanol project in Thailand for GKBI through an EPC company, Sbang Corp., Thailand. ISGEC Heavy Engineering1111 The scope of work included the setting up of 2 Biomass Boilers of 230 TPH capacity each operating at 105 Bar and 540 Deg. C. These boilers…
Sugarcane growers meet Sugar Minister in Mysuru and submit memorandum urging him to address their demands. Sugarcane growers meet Sugar Minister in Mysuru and submit memorandum urging him to address their demands Members of the State Sugarcane Growers’ Association on Wednesday met the Minister for Textiles, Sugar and Cane Development Shankar Patil Munenakoppa and urged…
In India, Reuters reports leading molasses exporter KN Group has bought a 100,000-liter a day ethanol plant that it will expand to 160,000 LPD with plans to build another in in western region Shrishrimal also producing 100,000 LPD as it seeks to build up supplies for the government’s 20% ethanol blending mandate. Although the existing…
Indian sugar millers are confident that demand for ethanol will not impact the sugar availability in the market as the country’s problem is not shortage but that of surplus and not knowing what to do with it. India is likely to continue producing more even after diversion and so it will continue to struggle with…
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday laid the foundation stone for a large ethanol production unit in his constituency of Shiggaon in Haveri district. VINP Distilleries & Sugars, a private sector company, is building the factory at an investment of Rs 380 crore on an 80-acre plot. The factory will also have a 14-MW cogeneration…
Allocation of rice from FCI (Food Corporation of India) for the production of ethanol has been raised by 466 per cent during the ethanol supply year (ESY) December 2021- November 22. To a query in Lok Sabha on the details of the quantum of foodgrains diverted from the buffer stock of FCI for the production…
The government’s decision to impose an additional differential Excise Duty of ₹2 a litre on unblended fuel from October 1 will boost the Ethanol Blending Programme, according to the Indian Sugar Mills’ Association (ISMA). According to a notification of the Department of Revenue dated February 1, fuel to be categorised as blended (with ethanol/ methanol)…
The ethanol supply in the country to enable blending with petrol is likely to reach 302 crore litres, according to the Economic Survey 2021-2022. The government has set a target of 20% ethanol blending with petrol to be achieved by 2025 to reduce the country’s crude oil import bill, give a boost to the agriculture…