PAMPASAR DISTILLERY OR INDIA SUGARS

COMPANY PROFILE Pampasar distillery was earlier a division of M/s. India Sugars and Refineries Limited., managed by the Morarkha Family. It is one of the oldest distilleries in the country being established in the year 1946 in Chitwadgi village, Hospet Pampasar distillery was incorporated under the Companies Act 1956 and the commercial production started in October 1978. Pampasar distillery is situated in Chitwadgi, Hospet belongs to Hospet town, Bellary district. Hospet is very near to Hampi the historic capital of Vijayanagar Empire. The two major location advantages that this company has : - Canal of Tungabhadra flowing very near to the factory premises , facilitation uninterrupted supply of good quality of water. This company is located in the sugarcane belt and its proximity ot many sugar mills. M/s. Shaw Wallace and company limited., acquired the major share holders by this Pampasar distillery became the member of the Shaw Wallace Group in Feburary 1994. The authorized capital of Pampasar distiller is 75,00,000 equity shares of Rs. 10.00 each. By there intervention of this company turned from non – profitable company to highly profitable company. Shaw Wallace Company Limited took various development and upgrading programmers to improve the company’s production and administration operations. A primary and secondary effluent treatments plants have been set up a huge costs for treating the distillery effuluents. And various equipments where established in the company to improve production facilities RS/ENA and bottling of Indian made liquor. Further, grain spirit plant was introduced in March 1998, to produce quality liquors. Production Facility Spirit Production Molasses Based IMA Production ENA based Production Process : Molasses as a basic raw material for manufacturing for alcohol, this unit is the first in Karnataka state to set up continuous fermentation plant of alcohol. The production technology was taken from M/s. Praj Industries Limited., Pune. Who have technical collaboration with M/s. Vogel Bush of Shaw Wallace. Before the take over by Shaw Wallace, this unit was manufacturing IML mainly for armed forces and the volumes were very low branches from April 1994 on wards the production and sales have increased. At present, premium brands like Antiquity, Rare Premium Whisky, Vsop Ex Shaw Wallace Deluxe Brandy, Royal Challenge, Premium Malt Whisky, Directors special Whisky are being produced and bottled at this unit. Produciton of RS and ENA from Molasses : The by – products of Sugar Company that is molasses is the raw material for production of rectified spirit (RS) and extra neutral alchol (ENA). Purchasing molasses from various sugar industries more over it is located by the side of Indian Sugars Refineries (I.S.R) it hardly finds any trouble on purchase of molasses at competitive price. Molases is a thick brownish sticks liquid which will contain 50% of sugar it depending upon the sugar content, there are different grades of molasses, that is A,B,C higher the quality of molasses, more the quality of spirit as the yield of spirit depends on quality of molasses. Production Process (Fermentation) The Molasses are collected first in huge 4% 5 tanks from time to time there molasses collected and then sent to fermentation tanks where fermentation takes place in the presence of yeast. Yeast with some other chemicals like Sulfuric Acid (H2SO4) together act as main agents for the fermentation process. There are nearly 3 to 4 fermentation tanks, distilled molasses is made to pas through these series of tanks where it fermentation continues takes place. Due to continue fermentation process the molasses that is thick brownish viscous gets distilled that is the complex sugar of molasses is broken down to simple sugar. The liquid obtained is called for wash further the wash undergoes anaerobic fermentation through series of tanks. Finally the wash obtained is subjected to fractional distillation. Wash contains a high concentration of improve alcohol that is ethyl alcoho, methyl alcohol etc., fractional destinations are process where in the intense boiling of mixture of liquids evaporates at different boiling points. The boiling points of alcohol is some where near 740C. The alcohol gets evaporated in the process and is collected in the tanks meant for collection of rectified spirit, ENA and MGA separately. MGA contains lots of impurities such as aldehydes. Hydrides methanol etc and is used in chemical Rs is mainly used for manufacture distilled ENA is produced. The RS and ENA produced are pumped to blending tanks where they are mixed with different essence and flavors to produce different brands of whiskies, rum and brandies. There final product are then pumped to maturation room where they are stored for certain period for maturation. Treatment of Effluent : The fractional distillation leaves behind the waste product or efficient which contains high BOD and COD. When it is directly released in the water (i.e., into canal or flowing water ) it would be bubble out dissolved oxygen in the water and may prove disastrous to the life of fishes and micro – organisms in the water. Finally, after having gone through several treatments the efficient would be read to be discharged into the water. During this treatment process methane gas is generated which would be used a fuel in the power plant, Hospet and its surrounding land is basically rural and agricultural areas with main crop being sugarcane due to its proximately to sugar mills. Some of the industries in the region are : M/s. India Sugars and Refineries Limited M/s. Tungabhadra Steel Products M/s. Karnataka Oil Federation M/s. Jindal Vijayangar Steels Limited M/s. Kalayani Steels Limited Hospet is turning out to a major industrial town in this area due to the recent industrialization drive with major industrial house. Viz. Jindal, Kirloskar, Mukund and Kalyani corporates setting up their units. The active trade unions in the surrounding region are CITU and INTUC.