(Biofuels International) India-headquartered Sona Group has announced that it has beefed up the production at its Nigeria-based ethanol plant, according to media reports from Business Day.
The website reported that Sona ethanol will producing 120,000 litres daily, approximately 43.8 million litres per annum at its plant in Ogun state.
The Sona ethanol plant which is located at Sango-Ota is expected to feed Nigeria as well as African market, including Ghana, Togo, Republic of Benin, Gabon, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, and other countries, when completed in January, 2018.
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Elsewhere, Ajai Musaddi, group managing director of Sona Group, noted that one-thirds of the ethanol production would be reserved for internal consumption by its chain of fast moving consumable goods companies operating within the Sona Group family, while the two-thirds would be sold locally and exported to other African countries.
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“For ethanol, the market is huge. We are looking into export. We can see the export is growing every day. We started with Ghana, now we export to Cameroun, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Senegal, Ivory Coast.” READ MORE