Praj to set up ethanol plant for Tata

Pune-based Praj Industries said it would be setting up a fully integrated, commercial scale plant for ethanol production for Tata Chemicals exclusively from sweet sorghum. The facility will be set up at Nanded in Maharashtra, India, and would have a capacity of 30,000 liters per day, a company release said. At Tata Chemicals, the process envisages a crushing capacity of 900-ton per day of sweet sorghum stalks. Tata Chemicals’ Head of Biofuels Project, S Sriram, said “our confidence in this project has come from the fact that Praj has carried out extensive trials on sweet sorghum and that they understand the entire chain.” (October 8, 2007)