At Aksu sugar plant the first stage of modernization is completed

At the Aksu sugar plant during the first stage of modernization, 80% of the equipment was replaced. This allowed at times to increase the production capacity of the enterprise and to improve the quality of the sugar produced, this was reported to the business information center Kapital.kz in the Almaty region.

During the first two days of operation, the plant processed more than 5 thousand tons of sugar beet, the first sugar of the new crop was obtained.

Within the framework of the first stage of modernization at the Aksu sugar plant, equipment was replaced in the juice production, juice purification, grocery, pulp press, lime-gas, and also juice and syrup departments. The main feature - the entire production line is automated, management is carried out through the central hardware.

For example, thanks to the new evaporator plant, energy costs have decreased by 30%. Additionaly at the plant a unique chamber press filter was installed using new filtering technology. Automated work in the packaging shop. In general, through SEC Zhetysu, 119 units of technological equipment of Kazakhstan, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, French and German production were purchased. The purchased equipment was transferred to Aksu Kant LLP on financial leasing.

        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As Samat Nadirbayev, General Director of Aksu Kant LLP, said, the plant's capacity is 2.5–3 thousand tons of sugar beet per day. The total revenue this year will be 150−160 thousand tons of sweet root. The sugar yield is 11.5%.

Akim of the region Amandyk Batalov said that thanks to the state support this year, the area of sowing of sugar beet in Almaty region increased to 11.2 thousand hectares. With an average yield of 370 centners per hectare, it is planned to collect more than 400 thousand tons of sweet root and produce 42.5 thousand tons of sugar. 

“Together with the founders of the plant through SEC Zhetysu, over the first stage of modernization more than 11 billion tenge of joint funds were allocated. Due to the modernization in this season, the plant plans to process 150–160 thousand tons of sugar beet. As of today, 80 thousand tons of beets have been harvested at the plant’s beet pile field. In general, the region is still harvesting, another 70 thousand tons of beets will be brought here. Separate peasant farms, for example, in Eskeldi district, receive 500 centners from one hectare. This year we have really a record harvest of sugar beets,” said the akim of the region.

Speaking about future plans, Amandyk Batalov stressed that the maximum capacity of the Aksu sugar plant, after full modernization, will reach 350 thousand tons. Therefore, sugar beet crops will continue to increase.

“Next year, taking into account crop rotation, we are planning to bring sugar beet crops to about 14 thousand hectares. In the course of further modernization, we also plan to ensure that in the off-season Aksu Sugar Plant also processes cane, then it will work all year round. At the Koksu sugar plant they carried out a complete modernization, which they completed last year, thanks to which the sugar yield increased from 10 to 13%. In addition, the plant’s boiler house switched from diesel to gas, saving amounted to 500 million tenge. Now businessmen are turning to us with proposals for the restoration of the Alakol and Karabulak sugar plants, clearly seeing the results achieved. Thanks to the joint work, two sugar plants are working, permanent jobs have been created, tax deductions come to the budget, the volume of production is growing, and residents get good wages, and this is what the head of state ordered us to do,” summed up Amandyk Batalov.

Next year, at the expense of its own funds, Aksu Kant LLP plans to carry out the next stage of plant modernization.