Mumbai, India - Empee Sugars and Chemicals Ltd, a unit of Chennai-headquartered Empee Group, is setting up a state-of-the-art, integrated sugar complex with a capacity of 5,000 TCD (tonnes crushing per day) in Ambasamudram taluk of Tirunelveli District in Tamil Nadu.

"The capacity of the integrated complex is expandable to 8,000 TCD. The plant will include a 50 MW co-generation power plant, which will also qualify for carbon emission certificates (carbon credits), and a distillery with a capacity of one lakh litres per day. Keeping in tune with futuristic approaches to farming, we will be adopting corporate/ contract method apart
from conventional methods for our cultivation," Empee Sugars and Chemicals Ltd's joint managing director K Jayachandran said.

"The Rs 515 crore, complex will be located on 300 acres of land and we expect the complex to go on stream by end 2009. The funding will be through a mix of equity and debt. We have already placed orders for long-delivery/ major equipments. Bio-compost will be a byproduct of the distillery and we have taken up this as a component of the pollution control exercise," he said.

The integrated complex will manufacture Extra Neutral Alcohol (ENA) and Ethanol. The company has already commenced nursery cultivation for cane development. While focusing on corporate/ contract farming, the company will also mechanize farming activities.

The company has already obtained the sugar license and the civil works are expected to commence soon.

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