Inside this issue:

Highlights : 74th Convention —Inaugural Session —International Sugar Expo —Memorial Lecture Series —Technical Sessions

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Sponsors and Exhibitors 5

XXIX ISSCT Congress 2016 6

Member’s Corner 6

Other Activities 6

Dear Member,

Greetings

The Sugar Technologists’ Association of India success-fully organized its flagship event - 74th Annual Conven-tion and International Sugar Expo 2016 at the state-of-the-art The Leela Ambience Con-vention Centre and Hotel, Delhi from 28th – 30th July 2016. On behalf of the Coun-cil of The Sugar Technologists Association of India, I express my most sincere gratitude to the members of the Associa-tion, sponsors, exhibitors & service providers for not only attending the Convention in large numbers but also mak-ing it a grand success and a memorable one.

Nearly 1000 delegates partici-pated in the 3 days congrega-tion which included 15 foreign delegates from Australia, Ger-many, Spain, Sudan, USA and Vietnam. The Convention also saw glitterati of guests that included union ministers, senior government officials,

scientists, Directors of research institutes, entrepreneurs, CEOs of leading sugar groups and Chair-man of co-operative sugar factories.

The sugar sector is in a sweet spot right now as the sugar prices have reasonably appreciated in the past one year on account of disruptive agro-climatic conditions (El Nino) prevailing in Brazil, India and Thai-land. El Nino led to excessive rains in Brazil and drought in India and Thailand. After five years of sur-plus, the El Nino induced weather conditions have led to shortfall in the global sugar production in the year 2015-16. As per advanced estimates, the Indian sugar output for the year 2016-17 is anticipated to be around 23.26 million tonnes down from 25.1 million tonnes in the year 2015-16. It is high time that the industry focuses on strategies to adopt mod-ern technologies for scientific farm-ing, development of high sucrose content sugarcane varieties, energy saving, automation and value addi-tion through co-generation, bio-fuels etc. to safeguard itself from the cyclical nature of the industry.

In the past one year, a host of new initiatives have been taken

by the council starting with the STAI e-News Letter every quarter, bar coding of delegate badges during the Annual Convention, encouraging participation of in-ternational delegates/exhibitors, online payment of membership subscription, bid to host the 30th ISSCT Congress in India in the year 2019, synergizing with the regional associations, government bodies and various industry or-ganizations representing the sugar sector cause. With regards,

SANJAY AWASTHI

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From the Desk of President

Mr Sanjay Awasthi , President, STAI

H.E. (Mrs.) Pratibha Devisingh Patil, former President of India along with other dignitaries inaugurating the 74th STAI Annual Convention and International Sugar Expo 2016 held on 28th-30th July 2016 at Delhi

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Dignitaries present : Chief Guest H.E. Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, former President of India Guests of Honour - Sh. Nitin Gadkari, Hon`ble Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping, Government of India Sh. Sharad Pawar, Member of Par-liament and former Minister for Food & Agriculture, Govt. of India Distinguished Guests – Sh. Murugesh Nirani, Founder Chairman, Nirani Sugars Ltd and former Minister of Industries, Govt. of Karnataka Sh. Dilip Walse Patil, President, NFCSF & former Minister of Finance & Planning, Govt. of Maharashtra STAI Prestigious Awards : Golden Globe Award STAI conferred its Highest Award, Golden Globe Award to Sh. Sharad Pawar, on his completing 75 years of age and 55 years of distinguished services to the sugar industry. Honorary Fellowship STAI conferred its Highest Honour, Honorary Fellow to Sh. Ranjit Puri, Chairman, Saraswati Sugar Mills, in recognition of his services for the development of sugar industry and advancement of sugar technology.

Life Time Achievement Awards STAI Life Time Achievement awards for the year 2016 were conferred to: Mr. Tilak Dhar, Chairman and Managing Director, DCM Shriram Industries (Daurala Sugar Works) Dr. Prabhakar Kore, Member of Parliament and Chairman, Shiva-sakhti Sugars Ltd., Raibagh & Founder Chairman Shree Doodhaganga Krishna SSK, Chikodi Dr. GSC Rao, Managing Director, Global Cane Sugar Services, Delhi Mr. M. Muthujothi, Executive Di-rector, DCM Shriram (DSCL Sugar) Mr. Sunil Singhal, Founder and President, Chemical Systems Tech-nologies (India) Ltd., New Delhi Mr. C.B. Patodia, Advisor, Birla Group of Sugar Industries Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Mr Mahendra N. Mehta, Chairman, Sugar Corporation of Uganda (SCOUL) in recognition of his ser-vices to sugar industry in Uganda. Industry Excellence Awards STAI Industry Excellence Awards for the year 2016 were conferred to : Mr. Vivek Pittie, Director, Harina-gar Sugar Mills Mr. Tarun Sawhney, Vice Chair-man and MD, Triveni Engineering and Industries Ltd. and President, Indian Sugar Mills Association

Dr. B.K. Yadav, Managing Director, U.P. Co-operative Sugar Factories Federation Ltd., Lucknow Mr. M Prabhakar Rao, Chairman, NSL Sugars, Hyderabad Mr. M.G. Joshi, Managing Director, National Federation of Co-operative Sugar Factories Ltd., New Delhi Award of Excellence Dr. Bakshi Ram, Director, Sugar-cane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore J P Mukerjee Gold Medal for the Best Engineer of the Year Mr Sanjay Awasthi, Business Head, Isgec Heavy Engineering Ltd. Isgec Gold Medal-Engineering for Excellence Mr. K R Patil, Head-Engineering Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Pune Mr. K P Singh, Group Head-Operations, Balrampur Chini Mills Dr. Bansidhar Gold Medal for In-novation in the Area of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Mr. Narendra Mohan, Mr. J P Srivastava & Mr Anoop Kanaujia for their paper on “Bagasse Gassifica-tion –An Energy Efficient Option”. Medals for Best Research Papers The authors of best papers pub-lished and presented in XI Joint Convention 2015 were conferred Noel Deerr Gold Medals and STAI Silver Medals at the Convention.

Highlights :Inaugural Session of 74th STAI Annual Convention held at Delhi from 28th-30th July 2016

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Sh. Sharad Pawar receiving the Golden Globe Award from the Chief Guest H.E (Mrs.) Pratibha Devisingh Patil

Sh. Ranjit Puri, receiving the Honorary Fellowship from the Chief Guest H.E (Mrs.) Pratibha Devisingh Patil

In conjunction with the 74th STAI Convention, International Sugar Expo 2016 was also organ-ized wherein 70 technology providers including turn-key plant suppliers, SMEs, consultants etc. from India and abroad showcased their latest inno-vations/products for the sugar and allied industry. The Sugar Expo witnessed a large number of visi-tors from the senior management of Sugar Indus-try, scientific fraternity and R&D institutes.Over the years it has emerged as an ideal platform for varied business opportunities to technology provid-ers as well as providing practical learning to users.

International Sugar Expo 2016

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H.E (Mrs.) Pratibha Devisingh Patil and Shri Nitin Gadkari, Hon’ble Minister for Road Transport and Highways ,Government of India Inaugu-rating the International Sugar Expo 2016

S.N. Gundurao Memorial Lecture The coveted lecture was delivered by the following dis-tinguished speakers : Dr Rod Steindl, Principal Consultant, Australia & ISSCT Factory Commissioner on “Factory Efficiency and Minimizing Losses” & Dr Bakshi Ram, Director, SBI, Coimbatore on “Sugarcane Agriculture in India – Cur-rent Scenario and Prospects"

Mangal Singh Memorial Lecture The lecture was delivered by Dr. (Mrs.) V S Keskar, Managing Director, Maarc Labs Ltd., Pune on “The Pro-gress of Plantation White Sugar in ICUMSA till 30th ICUMSA Session, Warsaw Poland (2016)”.

Dr Rod Steindl Dr Bakshi Ram

Dr (Mrs.) V S Keskar felicitated by Ms. Rajni Sekhri Sibal, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Cooperation, Govt. of Haryana

Organizing Cultural Evening has become synonymous with the Convention. This year’s evening was hosted by Dr Kumar Vishwas, most celebrated Hindi poet, who enthralled the delegates with his two hours long perform-ance where he managed to leave delegates in splits with his quick-witted one liners. He interestingly connected his poetic verses with the Sugar Industry which amused the delegates.

Cultural Evening

Dr Kumar Vishwas and the audience

Technology Providers Session

The Session was chaired by Mr Pradeep Tyagi, Council Member, STAI and Co-chaired by Mr Rajeev Gupta, Council Member, STAI and Mr P S Srivastava. In all, seven presentations were made in this session.

(L-R) Mr Rajeev Gupta, Mr Pradeep Tyagi, Mr P S Srivastava

Memorial Lectures

74 research papers were published in the Proceedings of the 74th Annual Convention, out of which total of 65 papers were presented in the following sessions: Agriculture Session The session was chaired by Dr Bakshi Ram, Director, SBI, Coimbatore and Co-chaired by Mr B K Yadav, Council Member STAI. In all, 23 papers were pre-sented by scientists/sugarcane professionals on varie-tal improvement, crop protection, extension services , farm mechanization etc., during the session

Factory Engineering Session The session was chaired by Mr R V Vatnal, Advisor, MRN Group of Companies and Co-chaired by Mr J K Kharbanda, Council Member, STAI and Mr P S Srivastava. In all, 13 papers were presented by re-searchers / factory engineers on milling, equipment maintenance, energy conservation, water manage-ment etc., during the session.

Factory Processing Session The session was chaired by Mr K K Sharma, a senior fellow member of STAI and Co-chaired by Mr S M Sharma, Vice President, STAI and Mr A K Malik, Council Member, STAI. In all, 15 papers were pre-sented by researchers/ sugar technologists on refined sugar manufacture, process optimization, juice and syrup clarification, high performance adsorbents for color removal in sugar etc., during the session.

Management Session The session was chaired by Mr C N Deshpande, Coun-cil Member, STAI and Co-chaired by Mr Santosh Kumbhar, Council Member, STAI. In all, 3 papers were presented by professionals on fuel ethanol , sugarcane medicinal properties etc., during the session. Mr P J Manohar Rao, a senior fellow member of STAI, who is now nearly 90 years old, was given standing ovation during the session for his presentation on “Brazil’s suc-cess in replacing petrol by ethyl alcohol as automobile fuel”.

Co-products Session The Co-products session was chaired by Mr Sanjay Desai, Managing Director, Excel Engineers & Consult-ants, and Co-chaired by Dr S V Patil, Head, Alcohol Technology, VSI & Mr O B Sirdeshpande . In all, 11 papers were presented by researchers/ professionals on ZLD (zero liquid discharge), optimizing ethanol produc-tion, spent wash incineration technology etc., during the session.

Technical Sessions :74th STAI Annual Convention

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(L-R ) Mr K R Patil, presenting his paper and seated on the dais are Mr J K Kharbanda, Mr R V Vatnal and Mr P S Srivastava during the Factory Engineering Session.

(L-R )Dr Bakshi Ram and Mr B K Yadav during the Agricul-ture Session.

(L-R )Mr A K Malik , Mr K K Sharma and Mr S M Sharma during the Factory Processing Session.

Top (L-R ) Mr D K Goel presenting certificate of appreciation to Mr P J Manohar Rao in presence of Mr C N Deshpande, and Mr Santosh Kumbhar during the Management session. Bottom (L-R) Mr Sanjay Desai and Dr S V Patil on the dais conducting the Co-products Session.

Thank you Sponsors of the 74th Annual Convention

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Thank you Exhibitors :74th Annual Convention

Published by: The Sugar Technologists’ Assciation of India

Hon. Editor : Mr D K Goel Secretary : Mr Amit Khatter

XXIX ISSCT Congress,5-8 December 2016, Thailand

Published by: The Sugar Technologists’ Association of India

Plot No. 15, 301, Aggarwal Okhla Plaza, Community Centre, Okhla Phase 1 New Delhi-110020, Phone: 011-64645069-72, E-mail :office@staionline.org , www.staionline.org

The XXIX Congress of ISSCT is being held in the city of Chiang Mai, located in north of sugar cane growing and sugar production hubs of Thailand, from 5 to 8 De-cember 2016. The theme of the Congress is “Sufficient and Sus-tainable Agri-Sugar Cane: from small farmers to global export-ers”. Around 1,000 participants from all the major sugar producing countries are likely to participate in the Congress.

To participate in the XXIX ISSCT Congress 2016, all participants must be duly registered ISSCT members for the period 2013-16. The mem-bership fee is USD 140 and is valid until the end of the congress on 8th December 2016. Registration as ISSCT member may be done online at www.issct.org/member.html. The delegate fee for the XXIX con-gress & other details are given below:

Pre-congress Tour

The Pre-congress tour will be from 2-3 December 2016 in the north-eastern part of Thailand. It will start from Khon Kaen and end at Chiang Mai. Delegates shall visit 2 locations in which sugar cane is grown; Chaiyaphum Province, the participants will visit Mitr Phol Sugar Group, the biggest sugar group in Thailand and in Khon Kaen Province the participants will visit the research activities of the Department of Agriculture and Management, visit to Khon Kaen University and to KSL Sugar Group. Post-congress Tour The Post-congress Tour will be from 9-11 December 2016. It will start from Chiang Mai and end at Bang-kok over the course of three days, combining cultural stops and major factory tours. The post-congress tour includes tour to Thip Sugar Sukhotai and visiting their sugar production, bio-mass power, fertilizer production plants respectively .

Delegate Fee for the XXIX ISSCT Congress 2016

STAI Activities All India one day Seminar on “Energy Efficiency in Sugar Mills” to be held at Amritsar (Punjab) on 14th October 2016 International Events ATALAC (Central American Sugar Technologists Congress), August 31 – September 2, 2016 ,Veracruz, Mexico ASSCT, Florida Division Meeting, September 16 ,Belle Glades, FL, USA The 79th Annual Conference of the Jamaica Association of Sugar Technolo-gists (JAST) 3-4 November 2016 Riu Hotel , Ocho Rios , St Ann, Jamaica 25th ISO Seminar, November 29-30, 2016 London, England XXIX ISSCT Congress,5-8 December 2016, Thailand

Members Corner

The proceedings of 74th Annual Convention are being dispatched to the valid members.

Proceedings to members

in arrears -Associate/Fellow/ Companion/SME for the year 2015 have not been sent. They are requested to clear their dues to enable us to send copy of pro-ceedings & Factory list.

STAI has stared payment of

online membership subscription .For details members may log on

http://member.staionline.org. With effect from 1st Sep 2016 ,

STAI office is now open from Monday to Saturday except the 2nd & 4th Saturdays and desig-nated holidays. Working hours are now from 9.30 am to 6 pm .

Category Applicable from Amount (USD) Standard Rate 1 June to 30 Sept. 2016 1500 per person Late Registration 1 Oct.– 30 Nov. 2016 1700 per person Onsite Registration 3 – 8 Dec. 2016 1900 per person The above delegate fee includes entry to all congress sessions and to the

exhibition and poster areas, receiving Congress Materials, opening cock-tail party on 4 December 2016, two coffee breaks per day during the con-gress, lunches from 5-8 December 2016, transportation from airport-official hotels-congress venue and gala dinner on 6 December 2016.

Registration Fee for accompanying person is USD 500. The accompany-ing persons will not be given access to Congress Sessions and also will not be having access to lunch and coffee from 6-8 Dec, 2016.

Price for Pre-congress Tour is USD 350 per person and price for Post-congress tour is USD 700 per person.

For more details members may log in to ISSCT website at www.29issctthailand.com

Other Activities

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