Critical Success Factors for Sugar Manufacturing

Sugar producers worldwide trust Sugar Research Institute (SRI) for expert advice

Increase efficiency

Improving sugar factory production processes

Operational efficiency

SRI delivers short and long term strategies to minimise the resources used to manufacture sugar.

Increase productivity

Identifying effective operational and plant outcomes

Factory productivity

SRI identifies and analyses equipment and process ‘pinch points ‘ that constrain factory capacity.

Increase recovery

Maximising sucrose extraction and retention

Sugar recovery

SRI applies cost effective techniques to maximise sugar retention during processing.

About SRI

Australia’s Sugar Research Institute (SRI) offers global expertise in sugar milling and refining technology. We draw upon 69 years of sugar-specific experience to solve the technical and operational issues of cane sugar processing.

SRI’s understanding of the science of sugar processing helps sugar mills and refineries worldwide to maximise sugar recovery, and to deliver best practice in process efficiency and plant design.

Established in 1949, SRI operates on a “not-for-profit” basis and is owned and supported by Australia’s sugar milling industry. Our focus is to offer our clients and owners a competitive advantage based on technical and operational excellence. This excellence arises from our unmatched understanding and application of the science of sugar processing.

Technical Consulting

SRI’s wide range of defined and bespoke consulting, advisory and analytical services provide sugar clients worldwide with specialised advice, whether for an existing factory, a new factory or an investment analysis.

Equipment Designs

SRI’s major equipment designs solve real operational issues with sugar processing technologies. SRI’s designs are based on extensive scientific research, field testing and continuous improvement programs.

Instrumentation and Software

SRI’s range of instrumentation, automation and software products improve sugar output, reduce sugar losses and minimise production costs.

Training Services

SRI’s high quality specialist sugar industry training services provide underpinning knowledge to factory operators, supervisors and managers for improving mill performance and operational efficiency.

News

Local engineering graduate’s sugar career quest
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Local engineering graduate’s sugar career quest

Scholarships, Mill Operations

Local engineering graduate’s sugar career quest

Local Mossman State High School graduate Minh Nguyen has begun a quest for a career in the sugar industry after he recently completed a four-week SRI/SRA bursary work placement at Mackay Sugar’s Mossman Mill. Sugar [...]

2018 Sugar Research Institute Scholarship recipients announced
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2018 Sugar Research Institute Scholarship recipients announced

Scholarships

2018 Sugar Research Institute Scholarship recipients announced

Four undergraduate engineering students with an interest in sugar processing have each been awarded the prestigious Sugar Research Institute Scholarship for 2018. The Australian sugar industry scholarship attracted high quality applicants from universities throughout Australia. [...]

Persistence pays off for sugar bursary graduates
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Persistence pays off for sugar bursary graduates

Scholarships, Mill Operations

Persistence pays off for sugar bursary graduates

A special bursary award has led to two engineering graduates scoring jobs at the MSF Sugar Maryborough Mill. Local CQUniversity Australia mechanical engineering graduate Daniel Nicholson, and University of Queensland chemical engineering graduate Georgia Nilon [...]