Pakistan will export on February 10 one of the world s largest sugarcane crushing mill, SKODA 55 x95 x 4, to Louisiana, USA, according to an official statement. According to the Engineering Development Board (EDB) sources, Minister for Industries, Production and Special Initiatives Jehangir Tarin will be the chief guest at the unveiling ceremony arranged by the manufacturer. Senior government officers including the State Bank Governor, the Central Board of Revenue Chairman, the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, diplomats, leading engineering sector manufacturers, and prominent figures of sugar sector will be present on the occasion. The sugarcane-crushing mill has been manufactured by Qadbros Engineering, a Lahore-based private sector company, which has specialized in manufacturing of bigger sugar mills. Besides being the leading manufacturer for most of the 85 sugar factories within Pakistan, QadBros Engineering has for the last 5 years been exporting heavy plant and 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 statement said 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 and distillation industry is witnessing an upheaval in terms of new capacity addition. With Brazil leading the increase in sugarcane crushing & distillation capacity worldwide, this scenario has led to an unprecedented increase in the demand for cane crushing plant and 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 and 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.
