Aerial photograph of the Mahakaushal site at Bachai: the storage tanks and plant buildings, with the fields and the village around them.

About · Bachai, Narsinghpur

One site at Bachai, since 2005.

An integrated biorefinery: sugar, ethanol and power from one field — a circular economy by design, with compressed biogas under development.

Incorporated 13 April 2005
Factory Village Bachai, Narsinghpur
CIN U01543MP2005PLC017514

Village Bachai, Narsinghpur 487001, Madhya Pradesh The site from the air

The company

“They are not four businesses that happen to share an address. Each one runs on what the one before it leaves behind.”

Incorporated on 13 April 2005 as Pithera Sugar Mill Pvt. Ltd. and renamed Mahakaushal Sugar and Power Industries Ltd that September, the first plant at Bachai crushed 1,500 tonnes of cane a day. It grew to 4,500 TCD in 2014–15 and to 8,000 TCD today, with a bagasse-fired cogeneration plant commissioned in 2016 and a grain distillery alongside.

All four units — the sugar mill, the grain distillery, the bagasse-fired cogeneration plant and the compressed biogas plant under development — stand on that one site at Village Bachai, Narsinghpur 487001, Madhya Pradesh. The company took its present name on 7 September 2005.

The sugar mill at Bachai seen from the ground, its two chimneys standing over the plant with fields behind. — The mill at Bachai Fig. 01

Aerial photograph of the site at Bachai, the plant among its fields.

The timeline

1,500 to 8,000 TCD,
on the same site.

2005

Incorporated; 1,500 TCD mill at Bachai.
2014–15

Expansion to 4,500 TCD.
2016

Cogeneration plant commissioned.
2019

Terms of reference filed for the 8,000 TCD expansion.
2022

Final EIA for the 8,000 TCD expansion.
Today
300 KLPD grain distillery in operation.
- 15 TPD CBG plant under development
- Main-board listing planned.

Why integration is the point

Each of these plants is harder to justify alone.

Standalone

A standalone CBG plant has to go out and find feedstock, negotiate with farmers who have never sold to it, and build a collection network from nothing. A standalone distillery has to buy power and steam. A standalone sugar mill has to pay to dispose of its press mud, and gets very little for its bagasse.

Put together on one site

The other half of the argument is on Businesses.

Our businesses

Bachai · Narsinghpur Illustration

Leadership