In a bid to expand its existing sugar plant at Kolhapur in Maharashtra, Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Industries is planning to invest about Rs 150 crore. The company has five sugar plants in Uttar Pradesh and Maharasthra with cane crushing capacity of 29,250 tonnes. Its power co-generation and distilleries capacities at these plants are 94 MW and 120 kilo litre per day.
The cane crushing capacity is being expanded to 6,000 tonnes per day from the current 5,000 tonnes per day, while co-generation capacity to 26 MW from current 15 MW. Further, the company is setting up a new distillery with capacity of 60 kilo litre per day.
