Inside this issue:

Highlights : 76th Convention

—Inaugural Session

— Gundurao Memorial Lecture

—Plenary Session

—Technical Sessions

—International Sugar Expo

— List of Exhibitors

— List of Sponsors

New STAI Council:2018-21

31st ICUMSA Session

Members Corner

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Dear Members, Greetings, The Sugar Technologists Association of India success-fully organized its flagship event - 76th Annual Conven-tion and International Sugar Expo 2018 at the state-of-the-art Brilliant Convention Cen-tre, Indore, Madhya Pradesh from 20 – 22 August 2018 which was attended by nearly 800 delegates from India and abroad.

On behalf of the Council of The Sugar Technologists Asso-ciation of India, I express my most sincere gratitude to the members of the Association, delegates, 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 Indian sugar industry is set to close the season 2017-18 with the highest ever sugar production of 32.25 Million Tonnes.

As per advance estimates, India’s sugar output for the season 2018-19 is going to be record 35 MT. India is thus set to replace Brazil as the largest sugar producing coun-try.

The industry will commence the sugar season 2018-19 with a carry over stock of 10.5 MT. With an estimated sugar produc-tion of 35 MT in 2018-19, after meeting the domestic consump-tion of about 26 MT, there will be a huge surplus of 19.5 MT of sugar in the country. To mitigate the crisis, the Govt. of India has initiated several measures includ-ing incentivizing ethanol produc-tion and export of sugar. To boost the ethanol blending programme, the Govt. of India has recently increased the etha-nol procurement price as follows:

STAI has always been propogat-ing that for viable and sustain-able business, the industry should produce quality refined sugar both for the domestic and international markets and convert their units to integrated sugar complexes and utilize all the available resources like fibre, en-ergy, fertilizer, water and minerals aptly. I wish a successful sugarcane crushing season 2018-19 and advance greetings for the Dusherra and Dipawali to all our members.

SANJAY AWASTHI

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From the Desk of President

Mr Sanjay Awasthi , President, STAI

Shri Suresh Kumar Vashisht, IAS ,Joint Secretary (Sugar & Admin), Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India inaugu-rating the 76th STAI Annual Convention

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Old Price Rs./Lit

New Price Rs./Lit.

Cane Juice

47.49 59.19

B-Heavy Molasses

47.49 52.43

C-Heavy Molasses

43.70 43.46

Dignitaries on the dais : Chief Guest - Shri Suresh Kumar Vashisht, IAS,

Joint Secretary( Sugar & Admin), Min-

istry of Consumer Affairs, Food and

Public Distribution Govt. of India Guests of Honour - Mr. Bimal Kumar Dubey, IAS, M.D.

U.P Cooperative Sugar Factories Fed-

eration Ltd. Ms. K.Karpakam, IAS, M.D., Dhar-

mapuri District Cooperative Sugar

Mills

Distinguished Guests :

Mr. Narendra Mohan, Director,

National Sugar Institute, Kanpur

Mr. Shivajirao Deshmukh, Director

General, Vasantdada Sugar Institute

Mr. Abhyuday Jindal, M.D., Jindal

Stainless

STAI Life Time Achievement

Awards

STAI Life Time Achievement awards

for the year 2018 were conferred to:

Mr. Kailashchand Lakhmichand

Goyal, Director, Shree Durga Group

Mr. D.S. Bhamare, C.E.O, Sitson

India Private Ltd.

Mr. Prakash Naiknavare, Managing

Director, National Federation of Co-

operative Sugar Factories Mr. P.S. Sankarnarayan, Director,

Avant-Garde Engineers and Consult-

ants Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. A.K. Jain, Managing Director,

Namokar Enterprises

Mr. K.K. Kohli, Senior Fellow

Member, STAI

Pravasi Bhartiya Award Mr Kaushik C Pabari, Director,

Kwale International Sugar Co. Ltd in

recognition of his services to sugar

and allied industry in Kenya. Industry Excellence Awards STAI Industry Excellence Awards for

the year 2018 were conferred to :

Mr. Vivek Maheshwari, Promoter &

Director, Maheshwari Group of Sugar

Industries, Madhya Pradesh

Mr. Kunal Yadav, Managing Director,

Indian Sucrose Ltd.

Dr. Atul Suresh Bhosale, Promoter

Jaywant Sugars Ltd and Minister of

State Rank – Govt. of Maharashtra

Mr. R.L. Tamak, Executive Director (Sugar), DSCL Sugar Dr. R.C. Saroha, Distillery Manager,

Panipat Cooperative Distillery Ms. Mansi Agarwal, Vice President,

Risansi Industries Ltd.

J P Mukerjee Gold Medal Mr OP Mishra, General Manager-

Technical, Triveni Engineering and

Industries Limited was conferred

JPMA Gold Medal for Best Engineer of

the Year 2018 Isgec Gold Medal Mr Anup Kesarwani, Director, Chemi-

cal Systems Technologies was

conferred Isgec Gold Medal

Engineering for Excellence (Process

Technology) Mr D Swain , Professor, Sugar Engi-

neering, National Sugar Institute,

Kanpur was conferred Isgec Gold

Medal-Engineering for Excellence

(Process Engineering) Dr. Bansidhar Gold Medal Mr J K Kharbanda and Mr K P

Vasanthan were conferred Dr

Bansidhar Gold Medal (Innovation in

the Area of Energy Efficiency and Con-

servation) for their paper on

“Innovative Design Improvements in

Milling Tandem for Energy Efficiency

and Ease of Maintenance” presented

during 75th Annual Convention .

76th STAI Annual Convention held at Indore : Highlights of the Inaugural Session held on 20th August 2018

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Mr K K Kohli receiving Life Time Achievement Award from the Guest of Honour

Mr Kaushik C Pabari receiving Life Time Achievement Award (Pravasi Bhartiya) from the Chief Guest

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76th STAI Annual Convention held at Indore : Highlights of the Inaugural Session held on 20th August 2018 (Contd.)

(Top From L-R) Recipients of STAI Silver Medals for the Agriculture and Factory Engineering Sections (Bottom From L-R) Recipients of STAI Silver Medals for the Factory Processing and Co– Products Sections

(Top From L-R) Recipients of Noel Deerr Gold Medals for the Agriculture , Factory Engineering and Factory Processing Sections (Bottom From L-R) Recipients of Noel Deerr Gold Medals for the Co– Products Section which was shared by two papers

The authors of the best papers presented in the 75th STAI Annual Convention 2017 were conferred following medals:

76th STAI Annual Convention held at Indore : Highlights of the Inaugural Session held on 20th August 2018 (Contd.)

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Following publications were re-leased by the Chief Guest during inaugural session STAI Publications Proceedings of the 76th Annual Convention Souvenir of the 76th Annual Con-vention

List of Cane Sugar Factories in India and SAARC countries, Refin-eries & Distilleries in India, Nepal & Bhutan for the year 2017—18 Book titled “Ganna Satat Ut-padan” by Dr. Priyanka Singh, Dr. Sanjeev Pathak and Dr. Ajay Tiwari

Joint Study by Jindal Stainless, J.P. Mukherji and Associates and The Sugar Technologists Associa-tion of India on “Stainless Steel a wonder Metal to Combat Corrosion and Optimizing Life Time Value of Equipment for Sugar Industry”

S.N. Gundurao Memorial Lecture

The coveted lecture was delivered by Mr Abinash Verma, Director General, Indian Sugar Mills Asso-ciation on “Government Policies on Sugar Sector”. The S.N. Gundurao Memorial Lec-ture session was chaired by Prof. Narendra Mohan, Director, NSI Kanpur and Co-Chaired by Mr San-jay Awasthi, President, STAI

(Left) Mr Abinash Verma delivering S N Gundu Rao Memorial Lecture

(Right) Mr Vinay Kumar, Patron Member, STAI presenting memento to

Mr Abinash Verma

Release of the Souvenir by the Chief Guest during the Inaugural Session of the 76th STAI Convention

Release of the Book Ganna Satat Utpadan by the Chief Guest during the Inaugural Session

Release of the Joint Study by JSL, JPMA and STAI by the Chief Guest during the Inaugural Session

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Organizing Cultural Evening has become synonymous with the Convention. Mr Ehsaan Qureshi, Stand-up Co-median along with his team enthralled the delegates with his two hours long performance and presented a number of audience interactive fun items.

Cultural Evening

Mr Ehsaan Qureshi, performing during 76th Annual Convention

A Plenary Session was organized during the convention on 21st Au-gust 2018. The Session was chaired by Mr. Prakash Naiknavare, Managing Director, National Federation of Coop Sugar Factories Ltd., (NFCSF) and co chaired by Mr. E Muthuve-lappan, President, SISSTA .

The following presentations were made : Mangal Singh Memorial Lecture “Out of Box” by Mr. Sunil Singhal, President, Chemical Systems Tech-nologies (I) Pvt Ltd. Plenary Lecture – 1 “Sustainability Challenges in In-dian Sugar” by Mr. R.L. Tamak,

Executive Director (Sugar), DSCL Sugar Plenary Lecture – 2 “Results of the field study con-ducted by Jindal Stainless, JPMA and STAI on use of stainless steel to reduce life cycle costs” by Mr Rajeev Gupta, General Manager, Jindal Stainless

Highlights :Plenary Session held on 21st August 2018

Technology Providers Session

The session was chaired by Mr K K Kohli, Senior Fel-low Member and Co-chaired by Mr K P Singh, Group Head (Operations), Balrampur Chini Mills and Mr Anup Kesarwani, Vice President, STAI. 8 presenta-tions were made during the sessions on latest techno-logical innovations in sugar & allied industries by the Technology Providers.

(L-R) Mr K P Singh, Mr K K Kohli, Mr Anup Kesarwani

Top (L-R) : (Left Picture )Mr Sunil Singhal. Mr Prakash Naiknavare, Mr E Muthuvelappan, Mr R L Tamak, Mr Rajeev Gupta seated on Dais. (Right Picture) Mr Tamak delivering the Plenary Lecture-1 Bottom :(L-R) (Left Picture) Mr Sunil Singhal delivering the Mangal Singh Memorial Lecture (Right Picture) Mr Rajeev Gupta delivering the Plenary Lecture-2

60 research papers were published in the proceedings of the 76th Annual Convention, out of which 50 pa-pers 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 R S Hapase, Head and Principal Scientist (Plant Breeding), VSI, Pune. 14 papers were presented by scientists/sugarcane professionals on varietal improvement, crop protec-tion, extension mechanization etc., during the ses-sion.

Factory Session This year also, Factory Engineering and Factory Proc-essing sections were merged into a common Factory Session in which alternate papers from engineering and processing section were taken for presentation. The Session 1 was chaired by Mr S M Sharma, Vice President, STAI and co chaired by Mr M K Biswas, Senior Member, STAI ;Session 2 was chaired by Mr R V Vatnal, Group Technical Adviser, Nirani Group of Industries and co chaired by Mr P S Srivastava, Managing Director, Enmill Technologies; Session 3 was chaired by Mr D Swain, Prof. of Sugar Engineer-ing, NSI and co chaired by Dr. V.P. Sidanale, Senior Sugar Technologist, VSI, Pune.

24 papers were presented by researchers / factory en-gineers/sugar technologists on milling, equipment maintenance, energy conservation, water management refined sugar manufacture, process optimization, juice clarification etc.

Co Products & Management Session The Co-products and Management session was chaired by Mr C N Deshpande, President, Jaywant Sugars and co-chaired by Mr D M Raskar, CEO, Shreenath Mhas-koba SSK .11 papers were presented by researchers/ professionals on ZLD (zero liquid discharge), optimizing ethanol production, general management etc., during the session.

Highlights :Technical Sessions held on 21st & 22nd August 2018

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Mr M K Biswas presenting certificate of presentation to Mr Harkirat Singh , AGM (Production), Daurala Sugar Works during Factory Session 1 (L-R) Mr S M Sharma, Mr M K Biswas, Mr Harkirat Singh

(L-R )Dr J P Singh and Dr R S Hapase presenting Certificate of Presentation to Dr R Gomathi, Principal Scientist, SBI Coimbatore during the Agriculture Session.

Mr C N Deshpande, Chairman and Mr D M Raskar, Co Chair-man with Paper presenters for the Co Products and Management Session

Top (L-R) Mr Anoop Singh, VP (Projects), DSCL receiving cer-tificate of presentation from Mr G D Patil ,CEO, JLNS Sugar during Factory Session 2 Bottom (L-R) Mr D Swain, Chairman and Dr V P Sidanale, Co Chairman presenting certificate of presentation to Mr V M Kul-karni, MD, V M Biotech during Factory Session-3

In conjunction with the 76th STAI Convention, International Sugar Expo 2018 was also organized wherein 62 technology providers including turn-key plant suppliers, SMEs, consultants etc. from India and abroad show-cased their latest innovations, products & services, for the sugar and allied industry. The Sugar Expo witnessed a large number of visitors from the senior management of Sugar Industry, scientific fraternity and R&D institutes.Over the years the convention and sugar expo has emerges as the most potent fo-rum for showcasing of new technologies, exchange of ideas and a bellwether for the Indian Sugar Industry.

Highlights: International Sugar Expo 2018, 20-22 August 2018

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Shri Suresh Kumar Vashisht, Chief Guest inaugurating the International Sugar Expo and taking round of the Exhibition

Exhibitors of the International Sugar Expo-2018

1. Abhitech Energycon 2. Alfa Laval India 3. Alpha Control Instruments 4. Avant Garde Systems and

Controls 5. Bajaj Power Equipments 6. BMA 7. Calsens 8. Carl Bechem Lubricants 9. Catalysts Biotechnologies 10. Chemical Centre (India) 11. Clair Engineers 12. Cloud Tech 13. CNH Industrial (India) 14. Crane Process Flow

Technologies 15. Danfoss Industries 16. Del Control 17. Dow Chemical International 18. Elann Drive & Automation 19. Enmill Technologies 20. Enviropol Engineers 21. Essen Welding Alloys

22. EWAC Alloys 23. Excel Engineers and Consultants 24. Fives Cail-KCP 25. Galaxy Industrial Equipment 26. Galaxy Sivetek 27. Gita Pumps India 28. IMCO Alloys 29. Indiana Sucro-tech (Pune) 30. Indo Pump 31. Ion Exchange 32. ISGEC Heavy Engineering 33. J.P. Mukherji & Associates 34. Jindal Stainless 35. Kirloskar Brothers 36. Kluber Lubrication India 37. Lubgraf Synoils 38. Mega Engineering 39. Membrane Group India 40. Netzsch Technologies 41. Paras Bhavani Steel 42. PPI Pumps/ PPI System 43. Premium Transmission 44. Privilege Biksons Boilers

45. PSP Pumps 46. Puri Industries 47. Qualilub Specialty Lubricants

India 48. Reggiana Riduttori, Italy 49. Rhewum India 50. Risansi Industries 51. S.B. Reshellers 52. Shrijee Process Engineering

Works 53. Sintech Precision Products 54. Sitson India 55. SKF India 56. Suzalkem Technologies 57. Tata Steels 58. Technical Drying Services (Asia) 59. Technotrak Chains & Conveyor

Systems 60. Three Star Engineering Works 61. VRL Automation Engineering &

Projects 62. Yes Enterprises

Sponsors : 76th Annual Convention

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The Sugar Technologists’ Association of India would like to thank all the following esteemed sponsors for their valuable

support in making the 76th Annual Convention a grand success. STAI firmly believes in the principle of growing through

partnerships and hopes that our relationship with sponsors will grow from strength to strength in years to come.

The General Elections for the STAI Council for the period 2018-2021 were successfully conducted this year. The newly elected Council took charge on 21st of August 2018 after the conclusion of the Annual General Body Meeting.

The first meeting of the council was held on 21 August 2018 which finalized the names of Hon. Treasurer and Hon. Editor .The following are the members of the newly constituted Council :

President

Mr Sanjay Awasthi

Vice Presidents (Elected)

Mr G Venkateshwara Rao Mr Anup Kesarwani Mr A K Malik Mr P K Belsare

Vice Presidents (Ex-Offico) Prof. Narendra Mohan Mr E Muthuvelappan Mr Mansingrao Jadhav Hon. Editor Hon. Treasurer Secretary General Mr D K Goel Mr Anup Kesarwani Mr Amit Khatter

Council Members (Elected)

Dr Bakshi Ram Mr A K Awasthi Mr S K Srivastava Mr A H Patel

Mr B S Hooda Mr Pradeep Tyagi Mr B R Jadhav Mr D M Raskar

Dr V P Sidnale Mr Alok Saxena Mr Yogesh Malik Mr E Muthuvelappan

Mr R V Vatnal Mr S K Ohri Mr Anurag Goyal Mr Kuldeep Kumar

Mr Sudulgunta Krishna Kalyan Kumar

Council Members (Co-opted)

Dr S Solomon Mr G V Chaturvedi

Special Invitees

Mr Abinash Verma Mr Prakash Naiknavare Dr Bakshi Ram Mr Shivajirao Deshmukh Dr A D Pathak Mr Suresh Kumar Vashishth

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New Council of STAI for the period 2018-2021

Members of the newly elected STAI Council along with the STAI staff members

Published by: The Sugar Technologists’ Assciation of India

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

Published by: The Sugar Technologists’ Association of India

Plot No. 15, 301, Aggarwal Okhla Plaza, Community Centre, Okhla Phase 1 New Delhi-110020, Phone: 011-45960930,31,32, E-mail :office@staionline.org , www.staionline.org

The Sugar Technologists’ of Association of India is recognized as Scien-tific and Industrial Research Organization by Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govern-ment of India under the Scheme on Recognition of Scientific and Industrial Research Organisations (SIROs),1988. The association once again has been accorded Renewal of Recognition from 01.04.2018 upto 31.03.2021. This was only possible due to the outstanding efforts of Shri D K Goel, Hon. Editor and Mr Anup Kesarwani, Vice President STAI, who jointly made an excellent presentation at DSIRO .

Forthcoming Events

The Sugar Technologists’ Association of India (STAI) in association with National Sugar Institute, Kanpur is organizing All India One Day Joint Seminar on “Techno-Economic Viability of Sugarcane Juice or B-Heavy Molasses as Alternate Feedstock for Ethanol Production" on Tuesday, 16th October 2018 at National Sugar Institute, Kanpur. Members are re-quested to participate/ nominate other professionals from your organization to participate and benefit from the technical deliberations of this important seminar.

The proceedings of 76th Annual Convention are being dispatched to the valid members. Proceedings to members in arrears -Assoc iate/Fe l low/ Compan-ion/SME for the year 2017 have not been sent. They are requested to clear their dues to enable us to send copy of proceedings & Factory list. For the benefit of the members, STAI has also initiated Payment Gateway for online payment of membership dues. Alternatively, members can also send the membership subscription through cheque/DD in favour of “The Sugar Technologists Asso-ciation of India” For online payment: The Sugar Technologists’ Associa-tion of India, HDFC Bank SB A/C No. 13851450000023, RTGS/NEFT IFSC CODE : HDFC 0001385, Ok-hla Phase-I, New Delhi- 20

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Members Corner Other Activities

31st Session of ICUMSA ,26-29 August 2018, South Africa

2) Changes in colour method No. 8

(MOPS buffer) recommended by

Dr. Keskar for making it applicable

to all types of sugars were ac-

cepted by the meeting and accord-

ingly the method will be redrafted.

31st Session of ICUMSA was held at

Kruger National Park, South Africa

during 26th to 29th August 2018.

Dr. (Mrs.) V. S. Keskar and Dr. S. S.

Nimbalkar attended this session on

behalf of the Indian National

Committee.

During this session Dr. Geoff Perkin

(UK) stepped down from the Presi-

dent ship of ICUMSA. In his farewell

address, while taking the review of

contributions made by Referees

during his tenure of 12 years as a

President, he specifically high-

lighted the work done by Dr. Keskar

in development of plantation white

sugar subject and methods of

analysis. As recognition of her

achievement, President felicitated

her as “Best Referee” with a

memento.

On the basis of report of GS9

presented by Dr. Keskar, two

important decisions were taken by

ICUMSA.

1) The ICP/MS method for analysis

of metal elements in sugar, which

was validated in Maarc Labs, is

accepted as a ICUMSA method.

(For analysis of heavy metals as

per requirement of FSSAI, this

method will be suitable) .

Felicitation of Dr. Keskar by Dr. Geoff Perkin