Piccadily Sugar & Allied Inds Ltd

Incorporated in March, 1993 in the assisted sector by the Punjab State Industrial Development Corporation, the Piccadily group, Vinod Kumar and others, Piccadily Sugar and Allied Industries Limited (PSAIL) presently manufactures White Crystal Sugar from sugarcane cultivated and Rectified Spirit, Extra Natural Alcohol (ENA) from Molasses/ Rice / Wheat, Ethanol, IMFL, PML, Country Liquor, etc. The by-products are molasses, bagasse and power. Molasses -- which is used to manufacture alcohol and citric acid -- is sold to distilleries. Bagasse is used as raw material in the paper industry and as fuel for generating power. The bagasse produced will be utilised by the company for steam/power generation. The company generates 6 MW; 4 MW to be used by the plant and the surplus 2 MW is being sold to PSEB. The company came out with a public issue in Feb.'94 to part-finance a 2500-tcd plant to manufacture sugar and to generate 6 MW of power. The company is concentrating on developing quality cane in the area allotted to it. Various incentives interest-free loans, supply of fertilisers and pesticides at subsidised rates, free testing of soils, etc have been extended to farmers in the area. The Company is projecting 30.00 lac quintals of crushings from sugarcane for 2003-04. The Company was declared as sick industrial company as per the provisions and the company has submitted the draft Rehabilitation proposal with BIFR. The Distiilery Unit with a capacity of 40 KLPD in the sugar mill campus was established in the year 2004. The Company started a new grain based Distiilery Plant of 3 KLPD capacity at Bawal, Haryana, which was commissioned in year 2017-18. Six Trees Drinks Pvt. Ltd. & Six Trees Beverages LLP were made the subsidiaries of the Company during 2019-20. The ethanol project of the existing distillery of the company at Patran enhanced from 40 KLPD to 105 KLPD in 2024.