The alcohol residue has exhausted factories' storage spaceFor the past 18 months, distillery-attached sugar factories have been urging the state to take a stance on the rising inventory of impure s...
18 Feb, 2017, 11.48 AM IST
Industries hope Sasikala will put economy on trackTamil Nadu's industrial sector is hoping VK Sasikala will target long-standing administrative inefficiencies and double the focus on J Jaya...
06 Feb, 2017, 12.02 PM IST
Relief likely for sugarcane farmers as Tamil Nadu power board pays sugar millsThe downward spiral in sugar prices and a high debt position had led to mills owing farmers about Rs 225 crore of the Centre's Fair and Rem...
03 Nov, 2016, 11.01 AM IST
Farmers now need to cart sugarcane to Tamil Nadu millsFarmers, who are yet to be paid fully for cane sold, will now have to bear part of the cost of transporting cane, depending on their proxim...
06 Jan, 2016, 10.56 AM IST
Tamil Nadu sugar mills want cap on ethanol output to goFor millers in Tamil Nadu, the prospects in ethanol appear brighter than the bread and butter of the business -sugar.
10 Nov, 2015, 10.46 AM IST
Tamil Nadu sugar mills hope rising prices will settle farmers' arrears"The worst is definitely over. But, it will be long before we can say things are good," said N Ramanathan.
14 Oct, 2015, 03.51 PM IST
For Tamil Nadu's sugar producers, a Rs 6,000-crore soft loan is a far hopeFor sugar manufacturers in Tamil Nadu, a soft loan from the central government seems so near yet so far.
16 Sep, 2015, 02.42 AM IST
Excess supply no boon for Tamil Nadu's private sugar millsThe tender to procure 35,500 tonnes has opened the gates for mills in Karnataka, which cumulatively have produced 49 lakh tonnes so far thi...
02 Jul, 2015, 10.12 AM IST
Tax-hit Tamil Nadu liquor units step up import from Karnataka and MaharashtraLiquor factories in TN use about 2 crore litre of ENA every month to make a bouquet of liquors, for which about 30% of raw material is ship...
31 Mar, 2015, 10.29 AM IST
Entrepreneur from the HC Kothari group Shyam Kothari passes awayBadramshyam Kothari, popularly known as Shyam Kothari, from HC Kothari group and son-in-law of late industrialist Dhirubhai Ambani, passed ...
23 Feb, 2015, 08.58 PM IST
Low sugar price, high input cost crush mills & farmersIn Tamil Nadu, where 25 private mills have the capacity to crush 30 lakh tonne of cane into sugar every year, only seven have commenced ope...
15 Jan, 2015, 12.13 PM IST
SOS from Tamil Nadu's private sugar millsPrivate sugar mills in Tamil Nadu, under immense financial distress, told that they will be unable to sustain operations without State Govt...
09 Jan, 2015, 09.28 PM IST