Infrastructure Sugar Division

The Sakthinagar Unit, a pioneer that introduced Mechanical Cane Harvester in the country, was established in the year 1964 at Sakthinagar in Erode District, Tamil Nadu with an initial capacity of 1250 TCD, scaling higher in stages, today, the Unit has consolidated its growth with an aggregate capacity of 9000 TCD.

The Unit is strategically placed in terms of its location. It is situated in the most favorable climatic zone of the country that hosts more than 35,000 acres of sugarcane cultivation, well irrigated by Rivers and Canals.

Nonetheless benchmarking its own records and operating all 365 days in an year , the Sakthi Nagar unit has recorded the highest cane crush of 22.35 Lakh M.T during 2006 –07 seasons. The plant achieved more than 1000 days of continuous cane crushing during 2004-07. With its excellence to repeat its success stories, the Unit has won the National Award for Exemplary Export Performance and has also won National Efficiency Award for many years. The Unit also has the distinct capacity of Raw Sugar Processing to produce high quality sugar using conventional equipments.

It was established in the year 1988 – 89 at Padamathur in Sivaganga District, Tamilnadu. It has an advanced infrastructure equipped with Auto Setting Mills and the technical know-how to process Raw Sugar.

The plant which was begun with a capacity of 2500 TCD has expanded to 4000 TCD. The plant recorded the highest cane crush of 10 Lakh MT in the 2007-08 Season.

The plant features

State-of-the-art automatic syrup clarification and melt clarification systems to produce low ICUMSA colour sugar.
Modern Fluidised Bed Drier for sugar drying and most modern sugar grader.

A pioneer

The Sivaganga Plant is a pioneer in introducing planetary gear Box and in designing silo, a mechanical device for raw sugar handling at Ports and Jumbo Bags of 2 tons capacity.
It showed the industry that the entire sugarcane cultivation can be brought under total mechanization.
The Plant introduced large scale sub surface drip irrigation system for sugarcane crop facilitating mechanized cultivation and harvesting.
It was the first one to install Vertical continuous PAN and to have operated it successfully in India. (The Vertical continuous PAN operates at very low vapor pressure & Temperature)

Some of the measures adopted by the Unit for energy conservation include.

Use of AC Variable frequency drives.
Use of energy saving equipments in process like flash steam recovery, direct contact heaters, vapour line juice heaters, dynamic juice heaters and automated single entry multi jet condensers etc.,

The unit indigenously designs and develops farm implements viz., modified tumkur plough, Disc off Barrer, Roto Incorporator, ridgers for earthing up, Sakthi drip laying machine.

The plant with the capacity of 3500TCD was instituted in the year 2007 at Poondurai Semur in Erode District,Tamilnadu.

In the Trial Season during 2007 the Unit crushed 711609 MT of Cane with an average recovery of 9.11 % which is a rare feat and a remarkable achievement in the national level. Subsequently it produced a laudable quantum of 1.21 Lakh qtls of 45 ICUMSA sugar which was exported.

The Unit also introduced Decanters for removing impurities from the juice as against Vacuum filters and also installed energy saving equipments to minimize steam consumption and loss.