Project Description
Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar And Industries Limited (the company or BHSIL) is a publicly listed company that produces and sells sugar and industrial alcohol/ethanol. BHSIL is undertaking to:
- expand a brown-field sugar plant from 3,200 to 6,000 tons crushed per day (TCD),
- construct three green-field sugar plants with combined capacity of 34,000 TCD; and
- build a distillery of 160 kiloliters per day (the project).
The nearest community habitations are 0.5 to 1.5 km from the proposed project sites, the plants are located in predominantly agricultural area and there are no environmentally sensitive areas in the vicinity the proposed plant sites and the existing plant. The project aims to achieve economies of scale and enhance competitiveness.