Mumias Sugar builds ethanol plant
Kenya is building up its ethanol base with a little help from India.
Mumias Sugar is constructing a Sh3.5 billion (€32.2 million) ethanol distillery, with Indian engineering company Avant Garde undertaking the design, construction and procurement of the Mumias Ethanol Distillery Project at the sugar miller’s complex in Mumias.
Mumias will also spend another Sh23.4 billion in acquisition of other sugar millers in the region over the next five years.
The construction will take 18 months. ‘We expect to start production and sale of ethanol by July 2011,’ Mumias Sugar MD Evans Kidero says.
The plant will see the company up its revenue streams, coming seven months after the commissioning of a 38MW power generation plant that has seen the company save on energy costs and feed extra capacity from the power plant to the national grid.
The plant will use molasses, a by-product of the sugar milling process to produce ethanol. The company produces 80,000 tonnes of molasses every year, from which it expects to produce 20 million litres of ethanol every year.
Mumias Sugar is constructing a Sh3.5 billion (€32.2 million) ethanol distillery, with Indian engineering company Avant Garde undertaking the design, construction and procurement of the Mumias Ethanol Distillery Project at the sugar miller’s complex in Mumias.
Mumias will also spend another Sh23.4 billion in acquisition of other sugar millers in the region over the next five years.
The construction will take 18 months. ‘We expect to start production and sale of ethanol by July 2011,’ Mumias Sugar MD Evans Kidero says.
The plant will see the company up its revenue streams, coming seven months after the commissioning of a 38MW power generation plant that has seen the company save on energy costs and feed extra capacity from the power plant to the national grid.
The plant will use molasses, a by-product of the sugar milling process to produce ethanol. The company produces 80,000 tonnes of molasses every year, from which it expects to produce 20 million litres of ethanol every year.
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