Pakistan to export world’s largest sugarcane crushing mill to USA
February 10th, 2007 by DhartiPakistan
Pakistan will make history on Saturday by exporting one of the world’s largest sugarcane crushing mill, SKODA 55"x95"x 4 to Louisiana, USA. It has been manufactured by Qadbros Engineering, a private sector company at Lahore, which has specialized in manufacturing of bigger sugar mills. Besides being the leading manufacturer for most of the 85 sugar factories within the country, QADBROS ENGINEERING has , for the last 5 years, been exporting heavy plant & equipment for sugarcane crushing to customers spread over five continents of the world including North America , Central & Latin America, Africa, Europe and South East Asia. The rapidly intensifying energy crisis that grips the world today has generated tremendous worldwide interest in renewable sources of energy. One of the major sources of renewable energy is the world’s cane processing & distillation industry which produces ethanol as a by-product or as its main product. Accordingly, the world’s cane processing & distillation industry is witnessing an upheaval in terms of new capacity addition. With Brazilleading the increase in sugarcane crushing & distillation capacity worldwide, this scenario has led to an unprecedented increase in the demand for cane crushing plant & equipment. According to a conservative estimate, the world’s sugarcane crushing capacity will have increased by more than 200 million tons by the year 2012.
This tremendous increase in the demand for cane sugar factory plant & equipment is shaping up at a time when most of the few remaining recognized European, American and Australian manufacturers of sugarcane crushing plant & equipment have closed shop thanks to long years of recession within the world cane sugar industry resulting from depressed sugar prices, high cost of heavy equipment manufacture, and environment issues confronting the metallurgical foundry sector in the west. Over the years, that situation forced the world’s major cane sugar eqpt. manufacturers & technology companies to seek technology partnership with Asian manufacturers. Mr. Jahangir Khan Tareen, Federal Minister for Industries, Production and Special Initiatives will be the chief guest on the unveiling ceremony arranged by the manufacturer. Senior government officers including State Bank Governor, Chairman, CBR, Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Federal Secretary, Industries, Production and Special Initiatives, Chief Executive Officer, Engineering Development Board (EDB), foreign diplomats, leading engineering sector manufacturers, and prominent figures of sugar sector are expected to attend the ceremony. It may be recalled that Engineering Development Board has a leading role in development of the company to achieve the landmark as it was exposed to international market for first time in 2005 by taking to Hannover Fair. Since then the company has been marching on the road of progress and supporting hand holding strategy of EDB.
