Businesses · Narsinghpur · Madhya Pradesh
Our businesses
Each one runs on what the one before it leaves behind. Sugar to wholesale and industrial buyers; ethanol to oil marketing companies; surplus power to the state grid; compressed biogas under development.
Sugar
8,000 TCD
Cane crushing · 1,500 TCD at founding → 4,500 TCD in 2014–15 → 8,000 TCD
Cane is crushed and the juice clarified into sugar. Two things come out of this stage that most mills treat as problems to be disposed of: bagasse, the fibre left after crushing, and press mud, the filter cake removed during clarification. We treat both as feedstock.
- Capacity
- 8,000 TCD
- Sold to
- Wholesale and industrial buyers
- Byproducts
- Bagasse · Press mud · Molasses
Ethanol
300 KLPD
Grain-based (maize) · expandable to 600 KLPD
Our grain distillery converts maize into fuel-grade ethanol for India’s blending programme, running on steam and power from the cogeneration plant next door.
The distillery’s own residue does not go to waste either — it is recovered as DDGS, a high-protein cattle feed that goes back into the rural economy as livestock nutrition.
- Capacity
- 300 KLPD, expandable to 600 KLPD
- Feedstock
- Maize
- Supplied to
- Oil marketing companies, under India’s ethanol blending programme
- Co-product
- DDGS, a high-protein cattle feed
Power
36 MW
Bagasse cogeneration · commissioned 2016 · ~10 MW exported
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Bagasse is fired in our cogeneration plant to raise steam and generate electricity. That power and steam run the sugar mill and the distillery. The surplus is exported to the state grid.
The complex is not powered by coal or by grid electricity — it is powered by the residue of the cane the farmer delivered that morning.
- Installed
- 36 MW
- Exported
- ~10 MW to the state grid
- Commissioned
- 2016
- Fuel
- Bagasse from our own mill
Molasses
Byproduct line
The byproduct line — what the four units leave behind, and where it goes
Molasses is one of three materials the sugar mill leaves behind — bagasse, press mud and molasses. We treat bagasse and press mud as feedstock; molasses is sold as a byproduct.
- Bagasse Fired in the cogeneration plant to raise steam and power
- Press mud Feedstock for the CBG plant Under development
- Molasses Sold as a byproduct
- DDGS High-protein cattle feed from the distillery
- Fermented Organic Manure Returned to the farms that supplied the feedstock Under development
- CO₂ Recoverable
Compressed Biogas
15 TPD
Under development
Press mud has historically been a low-value material. Composted slowly in open yards, it emits methane into the atmosphere and returns very little. Anaerobic digestion changes what it is worth.
Our CBG plant will take press mud from our own mill and from neighbouring mills, digest it, and upgrade the resulting biogas to over 96% methane — a fuel meeting IS 16087 and interchangeable with CNG. Once the crushing season ends, the plant does not stop. It switches to agricultural residue — cane trash and maize stover from the same farms that supply our cane and our grain.
- Capacity
- 15 TPD
- Status
- Under development
- Feedstock
- Press mud in season; cane trash and maize stover off season
- Output
- Biogas upgraded to over 96% methane, meeting IS 16087, interchangeable with CNG
- Residue
- Fermented Organic Manure, recognised under the Fertiliser Control Order
Why integration is the point
Each of these plants is harder to justify alone. A standalone CBG plant has to go out and find feedstock, negotiate with farmers who have never sold to it, and build a collection network from nothing. A standalone distillery has to buy power and steam. A standalone sugar mill has to pay to dispose of its press mud, and gets very little for its bagasse.
Put together on one site, each one’s problem is another’s raw material. The feedstock is already coming through the gate. The power is already being generated. The farmer relationship already exists. The land, the weighbridge, the workshop, the laboratory, the effluent system and the management are shared. That is what makes the economics work — and it is not something a greenfield project can replicate.