Repair of boiler, cogeneration unit commences at Mysugar

The company will produce 4,000 tonnes of sugar per day

Cane crushing for the 2015-16 season is expected to begin from October 1.

Sugarcane growers in the taluk are in high spirits with the State-owned Mysore Sugar Company Ltd. (Mysugar Mill) commencing overhauling works of boiler and other machinery.

Technical snags

Cane crushing was halted at the 82-year-old company, once one of the biggest sugar factories in Asia, on several occasions during the crushing season 2014-15 due to technical snags.

Subsequently, the management decided to improve the capacity of faulty equipment at the mill. “We have taken up overhauling of the boiler and will complete the works on a war footing,” H.R. Mahadev, managing director of the mill, told

The Hindu .

According to sources, cane crushing for the 2015-16 season would commence from October 1.

The mill would crush at least 4,000 tonnes of sugarcane per day and produce around 4,000 tonnes of sugar a day, another senior officer said.

Cogeneration

The sugar mill has also planned to produce at least 13 MW of power everyday, the officer said.

“We are also servicing machinery in the cogeneration unit to generate power in the unit,” the officer told this correspondent.

The mill had established the cogeneration unit in 2007.

However, the unit worked for only 17 hours.

• • Mill to generate 13 to 15 MW in a day