Inside this issue:

Highlights : 75th Convention —Inaugural Session

—Plenary Session

—International Sugar Expo

—Memorial Lecture Series

—Technical Sessions

—Thank you Sponsors

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Other Activities

Members Corner

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Dear Member, Greetings! The Sugar Technologists Association of India success-fully organized its flagship event - 75th Annual Conven-tion and International Sugar Expo 2017 at the state-of-the-art Convention Centre of Hotel Le Meridien, Kochi, Kerala from 03 – 05 August 2017. On behalf of the Council of The Sugar Technologists Asso-ciation of India, I express my most sincere gratitude to our esteemed members, sponsors, exhibitors & service providers for not only attending the Convention in large numbers but also making it a grand success and a memorable one. The three day congregation was attended by nearly 800 delegates from across the country and also included international delegates from - Australia, Germany, Kenya,

Spain, Sudan, UK, USA etc. The Convention also saw glitterati of guests that comprised ministers, top government officials, bureau-crats, sugar mill entrepreneurs, CEOs, HODs, consultants, technol-ogy providers, research profession-als etc. This year the Indian Sugar Industry will commence its crushing season from October 2017 to tide over the tight domestic supply. Barring the southern states of Tamil Nadu, An-dhra Pradesh and parts of Karna-taka which are facing the worst ever drought in recent times, the monsoon had been good in the key sugar producing states i.e. U.P. and Maharashtra which are likely to contribute two-thirds of the total sugar output in 2017-18. For the first time, the sugar pro-duction in Uttar Pradesh is likely to be over 10 MT as the cane cultiva-tion area has jumped from 2.05 million to 2.3 million hectares. The area under the early varieties of cane has also increased by 13%.

With stable sugar prices and an opening sugar stock of 4.2 MT as of October 2017 and anticipated sugar production of 25 MT in sugar season 2017-18 there will be enough sugar to cater to the domestic demand of the country.

I wish a successful sugar crush-ing season 2017-18 and Dipawali greetings to all our members.

Warm Regards, Sanjay Awasthi

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From the Desk of President

Mr Sanjay Awasthi , President, STAI

H.E. Justice (Retd.) Mr. P. Sathasivam, Hon’ble Governor of Kerala along with other dignitaries inaugurating the 75th STAI Annual Convention and International Sugar Expo 2017 held from 3rd-5th August 2017 at Kochi

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Dignitaries present : Chief Guest H.E. Justice (Retd.) Mr. P. Satha-sivam, Hon’ble Governor of Kerala Guest of Honour - Sh. Suresh Rana, Hon`ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Sugarcane Industry and Cane De-velopment Dept., Government of Uttar Pradesh Distinguished Guests – Sh. Ranjit Puri, Chairman, Saras-wati Sugar Mills Limited Sh. Shivajirao Deshmukh, Director General, Vasantdada Sugar Insti-tute, Pune STAI Prestigious Awards : Life Time Achievement Awards STAI Life Time Achievement awards for the year 2017 were conferred to: Mr. Dilip Dattatraya Walse Patil, Chairman, National Federation of Co-operative Sugar Factories Ltd. Mr G V Raman, Managing Director, Avant-Garde Engineers and Con-sultants (P) Ltd., Chennai Mr K R Patil, Head, Dept. of Sugar Engineering, Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Pune Mr. Nanank Chandra Dhingra, Founder Chairman, Sintech Preci-son Products Ltd., Ghaziabad, U.P.

Dr Palani G Periasamy, Executive Chairman, Dharni Sugar and Chemicals Ltd. Mr P S Srivastava, Managing Di-rector, Enmill Technologies Ms. Rajshree Pathy, Chairperson, Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals Ltd. Mr R C Singhal, Chief Executive, Seksaria Biswan Sugar Factory Ltd. Dr Suresh Bhosale, Promoter and Founder, Jaywant Sugars Ltd. Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Mr Jayantilal G Patel, Managing Director, Butali Sugar Mills in rec-ognition of his services to sugar and allied industry in Kenya. Industry Excellence Awards STAI Industry Excellence Awards for the year 2017 were conferred to : Mr. Amrutlal Hirabhai Patel, MD, Shree Khedut Sahkari Khand Udyog Mandli, Pandvai, Gujarat Mr. Ashok Kumar Malik, Technical Advisor (Sugar), Haryana State Fed-eration of Co-operative Sugar Mills Ms. Gursimran Kaur Mann, Direc-tor, Simbhaoli Sugars Ltd., U.P. Prof. Narendra Mohan, Director, National Sugar Institute, Kanpur Mr R Nandakumar, Chairman, Natems Sugar Pvt. Ltd.

Mr Subash Chandra Mittal, Man-aging Director, Instruments and Systems Mr Sangamesh R Nirani, Executive Director, MRN Group of Industries Ms T Sarita Reddy, Executive Di-rector, Gayatri Sugars Ltd. J P Mukerjee Gold Medal “Best Engineer of the Year” Mr Anil Kumar Tyagi, General Manager-Engineering, Triveni Engi-neering and Industries Limited Isgec Gold Medal-Engineering for Excellence Dr Rajeev Vasant Dani, Head-Process Technology, Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Pune Mr. J.P. Srivastava, Chief Design Engineer, National Sugar Institute, Kanpur Dr. Bansidhar Gold Medal for “Innovation in the Area of Energy Efficiency and Conservation” Mr G Venkateshwara Rao, Mr P Sitarama Rao, Mr B Ravindra Reddy for their paper on Energy Conservation cum Innovative Pro-jects in Sugar Industry. Medals for Best Research Papers The authors of best papers pub-lished in the 74th Annual Conven-tion 2016 were conferred Noel Deerr Gold Medals and STAI Silver Medals during the Convention.

Highlights :Inaugural Session of 75th STAI Annual Convention held at Kochi from 3rd-5th August 2017

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Ms. Gursimran Kaur Mann receiving Industry Excellence Award from Guest of Honour Shri Suresh Rana

Mr Jayantilal G Patel receiving Pravasi Bhartiya Samman from Chief Guest H.E. Justice (Retd.) Mr. P. Sathasivam

A Plenary Session on Highlights of the 29th ISSCT Congress held at Chiang Mai, Thailand was organ-ized during 75th Convention in order to appraise our members on the research and other develop-ment activities taking place around the global sugar industry. The Session was chaired by Prof. Narendra Mohan, Director, NSI and co chaired by Mr Sanjay Awasthi, President, STAI .

The following eminent speakers made presentations on synopsis of the technical papers of 29th ISSCT Biology Commission papers Dr. G.P. Rao, Principal Scientist, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Agriculture Commission papers Mr. S.K. Sachdeva, Chief Opera-tion Officer, Saraswati Sugar Mills

Factory Processing papers Mr. Narendra Mohan, Director, NSI Factory Engineering papers Dr. Geoffery Kent, Principal Re-search Fellow, Queensland Uni-versity of Technology, Australia Co-products papers Dr. V.P. Srivastava, Asst. Prof., Organic Chemistry Division, NSI

Highlights :Plenary Session on 29th ISSCT Congress

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Top (L-R) :Dr G P Rao, Mr Narendra Mohan ,Mr S K Sachdeva. Bottom (L-R) :Dr Geoffery Kent, Dr V.P Srivastava, Mr J J. Bhagat presenting mementos to Chair and Co-Chair of the session

75th STAI Annual Convention: Recipients of various Medals

In conjunction with the 75th STAI Convention, International Sugar Expo 2017 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 2017

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Shri Suresh Rana, Hon’ble. Minister of Sugarcane Industries and Cane Development Dept. , Government of Uttar Pradesh inaugurating the Inter-national Sugar Expo 2017

S.N. Gundurao Memorial Lecture The coveted lecture was delivered by Dr Geoffery Kent, Principal Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology, Australia on “Bagasse Moisture Content and the Factors that influence it”

Mangal Singh Memorial Lecture The lecture was delivered by Mr M S Sundaram, Man-aging Director, JPMA on “Integrated Project Model with Advanced Technological Options “

(L-R) Dr Geoffery Kent, Mr D.K Goel, Hon. Editor STAI ,Session Chair & Mr K.P. Singh, Group Operations Head (T), Balrampur Chini Mills, Session Co Chair

Mr M S Sundaram felicitated by Mr Ranjit Puri, Chairman, Saraswati Sugar Mills (L-R) Mr R V Vatnal, Technical Advisor, Nirani Sugars, Mr Ranjit Puri, Mr M S Sundaram, Mr P S Srivastava, MD, Enmill Technologies

Organizing Cultural Evening has become synonymous with the Convention. Mr Amar Oke, Flute Maestro, pre-sented a musical treat ' Amar Bansi '. Mr Oke enthralled the delegates with his two hours long performance and played a variety of songs on flute from Hindi movies with fusion of classical songs.

Cultural Evening

Mr Amar Oke, performing at 75th Annual Convention, Kochi

Technology Providers Session

The session was chaired by Mr Pankaj Rastogi, Chief Operating Officer, Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Industries and Co-chaired by Mr Ashok Malik, Technical Advisor, Haryana State Federation of Co-operative Sugar Mills Limited.

(L-R) Mr Ashok Kumar Malik, and Mr Pankaj Rastogi

Memorial Lectures

74 research papers were published in the proceedings of the 75th Annual Convention, out of which total of 67 papers were presented in the following sessions: Agriculture Session The session was chaired by Dr J.P. Singh, Chief Cane Adviser, NFCSF & co-chaired by Dr G P Rao, Princi-pal Scientist, IARI, Delhi. In all, 26 papers were pre-sented by scientists/sugarcane professionals on varie-tal improvement, crop protection, extension mechani-zation etc., during the session.

Factory Session This year as a new initiative, Factory Engineering and Factory Processing sections were merged into a com-mon Factory Session in which alternate papers from engineering and processing section were taken for presentation.

The Session 1 was chaired by Mr R V Vatnal, Advisor, Nirani Sugars and co chaired by Mr P S Srivastava, MD, Enmill Technologies ;Session 2 was chaired by Mr N Prabhakar, Vice President, Navbharat Ventures and co chaired by Mr Jasbir Singh, Technical Advi-sor, NFCSF; Session 3 was chaired by Mr N Chinna-pan, ED, Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Sugars and Co chaired by Mr HPS Bhatia , Director, Chadha Sugars, Mr S M Sharma, President, Kesar Enterprises .

In all, 31 papers were presented by researchers / fac-tory engineers/sugar technologists on milling, equip-ment maintenance, energy conservation, water man-agement refined sugar manufacture, process optimiza-tion, juice and syrup clarification, evaporators etc.

Co Products and Management Session The Co-products and Management session was chaired by Mr Sanjay Desai, MD, Excel Engineers and Co-chaired by Mr D M Raskar, CEO, Shreenath Mhas-koba SK and Mr Ajay Awasthi, VP, Turbotech Engrs .In all 10 papers were presented by researchers/ profes-sionals on ZLD (zero liquid discharge), optimizing etha-nol production, general management etc., during the session.

Technical Sessions :75th STAI Annual Convention

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Dr R V Dani, Head, Sugar Technology, VSI presenting cer-tificate of presentation to Mr Harjeet Singh Bola, MD, IPRO during Factory Session 1 (L-R) Dr Dani, Mr R V Vatnal, Mr Bola ,Mr P S Srivastava

(L-R )Dr S Rajeswari receiving Certificate of Presentation from Dr J P Singh and Dr G P Rao during the Agriculture Session.

(L-R )Mr D M Raskar , Mr Sanjay Desai and Mr Ajay Awasthi conducting the Co Products and Management Session

Top (L-R) Mr Jasbir Singh and Mr N Prabhakar presenting cer-tificate of appreciation to Mr G Venkateshwara Rao during Fac-tory Session 2 Bottom (L-R) Mr Rajesh Verma presenting paper during Factory Session 3 and seated on dais Mr HPS Bhatia, Mr N Chinnapan and Mr S M Sharma

Thank you Sponsors of the 75th Annual Convention

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Published by: The Sugar Technologists’ Assciation of India

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

Published by: The Sugar Technologists’ Association of India

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STAI Activities CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre in partnership with The

Sugar Technologists’ Association of India organized the 4th edition of ‘ Green Sugar Summit 2017’ on 30-31 August 2017 at Hyderabad Inter-national Convention Centre, Hyderabad coinciding with its Energy Effi-ciency Summit 2017.

The programme was attended by nearly 80 delegates from across the country. The following STAI council members made presentations during the Green Sugar Summit: Mr Sanjay Awasthi, President, STAI made presentation on Efficient and Sustainable Sugar Industry –Global Prospective Mr Anup Kesarwani, Vice President ,STAI made presentation on Novel Process - for producing refined sugar with least energy

STAI in association with Alfa Laval India Ltd are organizing All India One Day Seminar on “Energy Efficient Technologies - Decanters in Sugar Mills, Refineries and Distilleries ” on 6th October 2017, Hotel Sayaji, Kolhapur.

Members Corner

The proceedings of 75th Annual Convention are being dispatched to the valid members. Proceed-ings to members in ar-rears -Associate/Fellow/ Com-panion/SME for the year 2017 have not been sent. They are requested to clear their dues to enable us to send copy of pro-ceedings & Factory list.

During the 79th Annual General

Body Meeting of the Association held on 4.9.2017 at Kochi it has been decided to reduce the sale price of Coffee Table Book from Rs. 7000 to Rs 3500 to enable STAI members to possess a copy of this coveted publication.

A comprehensive Indirect tax

Reform-Goods and Service Tax (GST) has been introduced in India w.e.f 1/07/2017. After GST implementation now for all the transactions GSTIN of mem-bers/vendors/service providers is required to be printed in the In-voice or in any other prescribed document. The details of GSTIN of the The Sugar Technologists’ Association of India is:

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Other Activities

Thank you Exhibitors :75th Annual Convention

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(L_R) Mr Sanjay Awasthi addressing delegates in Inaugural Session; and seated on dais from (second to left )Mr Anup Kesarwani