The assessment of corporate sustainability has become an increasingly important topic, both within academia and in industry. For manufacturing companies to conform to their commitments to sustainable development, a standard and reliable measurement framework is required. There is, however, a lack of sector-specific and empirical research in many areas, including the sugar industry. This paper p...

The sugar cane industry represents one of the most important economic sectors in Brazil. It produces sugar and ethanol for the internal and external markets. Also, thermal and electric energy are produced for the own factory consumption, using sugar cane bagasse as fuel in cogeneration plants. Almost all the sugar cane factories in Brazil are self-sufficient in terms of energy supply and in the...

THIS PAPER describes recent BSES initiatives to develop laboratory NIR systems for sugar industry applications, in particular, for the analysis of sugar, molasses and other factory products. For the analysis of sugar, previous BSES work to develop online NIR calibrations was available for adaptation to a laboratory or at-line format and was supplemented by a targeted program of analytical work ...

Sugar and sweet consumption have been popular and intrinsic to Indian culture, traditions, and religion from ancient times. In this article, we review the data showing increasing sugar consumption in India, including traditional sources (jaggery and khandsari) and from sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). Along with decreasing physical activity, this increasing trend of per capita sugar consumptio...

This study aims to determine the pattern of coconut sugar production and compare income business feasibility each pattern. Utilizing proportionate stratified random sampling, 90 respondents industrialists were gathered. There are three patterns home industry: (1) processing formed (60 industry), (2) brown (21 (3) into (9 industry). The average IDR 695,010 per month, 787,745 2,326,578 month. val...

Ion exchange processes have been of considerable assistance in the cane sugar industry for the reduction of scaling in evaporators and other heat exchange equipment. Similarly, ion exchange decolorizers have been useful for production of high quality consumer sugar as well as in the manufacture of liquid sugar. This paper will develop the technical information rbquired for a successful juice de...

Pollution is a major national and world problem. Industries, including sugar industry, represent one of the pollution causes. This study aims to evaluate the extent of pollution in waste-water (WW), plants, and soil caused by the sugar industry in Elgenaid area, Gezira State, central Sudan. Completely randomized design was adopted. Samples were collected from the factory WW, trees, and soil fro...

Sugar is an important commodity in the African context, and there are numerous challenges and opportunities that exist in Africa for that industry. Africa is quite a big place and it encompasses a large number of different countries, cultures, weather patterns and soil variety. I will restrict my presentation to the area which is know as the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes obesity as a global epidemic of public health concerns. Diet has a role on the incidence of obesity, consequently the WHO suggests among other strategies, to reduce the caloric intake arising from free sugars to below 10% of the total daily caloric intake. Sugar-reduction is therefore of interest to the food industry, in particular to markets that ...