Fincha Escalates Production Capacity

Undertaking wide range of expansion activities through enlarging farmlands and building and infrastructure developments to increase irrigation capability, the Fincha Sugar Factory, one of the sugar industries in Ethiopia established in 1998 on 70,000 ha land, has now escalated its production capacity to 2.7 million quintals in a year.

“This is by hugely defying our earlier production capacity of only 8,500 quintals in a year,” says Endawek Abte, the factory general manager.

He adds that an improvement is also witnessed in the sugar cane crushing capacity of the factory to 12,000 tones daily from 5400 tones daily production in earlier times. Similar improvement is also recorded in production of ethanol (from eight to 20 twenty million liters in a year) that helps in saving foreign currencies. The power need for the factory is being met by the 12 Mw turbines that the factory has installed presently to accompany the already existing 3.5 Mw.

It was indicated that lack of sugar factory spare parts as the main hindrance to further expand its capacity urging the need to erect a factory that would respond for such a problem by producing spare parts for sugar projects.