This piece of work in the report is written based on the knowledge that I obtained from the industrial training at GM sugar Limited. The report begins by looking at the background of the company to the current state. It looks at the aims and objectives of the company basing on the vision and mission statements and describes the main activities that are done at the factory. The report in this chapter also describes the company’s policy to protect the environment and then the organization’s structure. The report further looks at the different processes that are undertaken to process raw sugarcane to sugar crystal. It begins by looking at the sugarcane growth and harvesting using of the different mechanisms. It describes how cane is weighed and the how it acts as a mode of payment of outgrowers, the loading of cane and the cane handling equipment at the cane yard. It further discusses the ways how cane can reduce quality and the ways to avoid such losses. It further discusses the procedures followed to extract the juice out of the cane and the way of cane juice handling by treatment, heating and clarification of the juice. The processes therein to remove the mud and formation of the mud, concentration of the juice to syrup and then pan boiling to form the crystals by separation of from the molasses using the centrifugal machines and then sugar drying to bagging and storage. The report also looks at how the end products of sugar processing are handled for example bagasse that is used as a fuel in the cogeneration, filter cake as field manure and molasses to the distillery The topics in the report further describe the ways for maximizing all the processes to obtain enough sugars through the different recycle streams. Improving productivity and reducing the cost of production are important considerations underlying various modifications.

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