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Our inflection points




            in four decades










              1975-1990: Our building block

            1975                             1976
            The Balrampur unit went into business   By an indenture of conveyance, Balrampur   entire staff of the sugar factory. BCML
            with a crushing capacity of 800 TCD; this   Commercial Enterprises Limited came   ceased to be a subsidiary of BCEL. The
            capacity was subsequently enhanced to   under the aegis of BCML with a transfer   shares were listed on the Calcutta Stock
            12,000 TCD                       of land parcels, buildings, assets and the   Exchange in 1979


              1990-1999 : Growth phase

            1990                             1995                             1998
            Acquired a controlling stake in Babhnan   Commissioned a distillery in Balrampur;   Acquired a controlling stake in Tulsipur
            Sugar Mill Limited (crushing capacity 1,000   the capacity of 60 kilolitres per day was   Sugar Company Limited, located near
            TCD in 1990). The mill was expanded and   subsequently raised to 160 kilolitres per   Balrampur in Eastern Uttar Pradesh with
            modernised, resulting in an increased   day.                      an installed capacity of 2,500 TCD. Tulsipur
            crushing capacity from 2,500 TCD in                               Sugar Company Limited was merged with
            1992-93 to 10,000 TCD presently (Babhnan                          BCML with effect from 1st April 1999; the
            Sugar Mills Limited was merged with                               crushing capacity of Tulsipur Sugar was
            BCML with effect from 1st April 1994)                             subsequently expanded to 7,000 TCD.





              2000-2014: Integrated growth

            2003                             2004                             2005
            Commissioned a bagasse-based     Set up an integrated sugar complex at   A greenfield sugar project with a capacity
            cogeneration power plant with a capacity   Haidergarh with a crushing capacity of   of 7,000 TCD was set up at Akbarpur
            of 19.55 MW at Balrampur, which was   4,000 TCD and a bagasse-based co-  along with a bagasse-based 18-megawatt
            subsequently increased to 24.55 MW.  generation power plant (20.25 MW).The   cogeneration power plant. The crushing
                                             crushing capacity of the Haidergarh sugar   capacity was subsequently expanded to
                                             division was since increased to 5,000 TCD.  7,500 TCD.

                                             Commissioned a cogeneration plant at
                                             the Babhnan unit (3 MW).
                                             In January 2004, the Company
                                             commenced operations at Babhnan of a
                                             new distillery (60 kilolitres per day)










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