About Sugar Research Institute
Sugar Research Limited, trading as Sugar Research Institute (SRI), was founded in 1949 and has traded continuously since that time. We are the major research and development provider to the Australian raw sugar milling industry. We have 24 Queensland and New South Wales mills as our members.
In 2005, SRL changed its core focus from fundamental, strategic and commercial research projects to marketing and better understanding our clients’ technology, processing and business needs. The delivery of innovative technological solutions to our customers is achieved through our strong affiliation with QUT.
We offer a wide range of expertise, including QUT research staff of engineers and scientists with professional qualifications in chemical, mechanical, civil or electrical engineering, computing, materials science, chemistry or microbiology.
Our activities focus on consulting and research projects to deliver innovative solutions in these fields:
- cane harvesting and transport; cane preparation, milling and diffusion;
- juice clarification, heating and evaporation;
- sugar crystallisation, separation and drying;
- process control;
- steam generation, energy systems and bagasse handling;
- sugar quality;
- by-product utilisation;
- sugar value-adding and by-product processing;
- environmental and waste management;methods of analysis; and
- sugar refining.
SRL has access to a range of process control instrumentation and markets various designs for process equipment and systems. We also broker specialist consultancy services outside the Australian raw sugar milling industry, although members’ requirements are our highest priority.