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FOR YEARS, BCML MAXIMISED THE
UTILISATION OF AVAILABLE RESOURCES

The Company extended from the The Company invested in technology
standalone manufacture of sugar to produce potash from ash
to the utilisation of byproducts to generated at its three distilleries that
manufacture downstream products can be used as an agri-input.
like ethanol, co-generation and The Company will further explore
fertilise. The result is that during the how to increase production of
year under review, the Company ethanol through cane juice route or
generated 15.29% of its revenues through B-heavy molasses route and
from non-sugar products, helping also achieve its target of lowering the
moderate an excessive dependence production of sugar.
on the sweetener.
The result is a growing respect for
In a reinventing BCML, there will what nature can offer and making
be a stronger focus on maximising the cleanest and complete use of all
resource consumption with the available resources.
objective to generate the fullest
downstream value from a stick of
cane.

Waste into wealth

De-
Creating Maximise risking
value from resource the
waste utilisation business

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