Production

 

RAW SUGAR OPERATIONS
The raw sugar factory was originally built with an initial milling capacity of 5,000 tonnes cane per day (TCD) with seven mills driven by electric motors. The number of mills was reduced to five and the two units cane crushers were replaced with one unit heavy duty turbine-driven Unigrator.
The factory's expanded milling capacity is about 7,200 tons cane per day.
Canes for milling in CAT come from surrounding farms in the province of Tarlac as well as in Pampanga, Bataan and Pangasinan.

REFINERY OPERATIONS
In 1964, the sugar refinery, which produces the renowned Luisita Sugar, was built. Designed by Stork Werkpoor of Holland, it began its operation in February 1966.

The Refinery is responsible in converting the brown or raw sugar into white sugar, commercially sold as Luisita Sugar, employing phosphoric acid-lime clarification and carbon decolorization.
CAT Refinery's average rated capacity to date reaches 7,000 50-Kgs bags per day.

BY-PRODUCTS (ALCOHOL & ANCILLARY PRODUCTS)

The Distillery presently has four (4) distilling columns with a combined output of 70,000 gage liters of 190° proof alcohol per day.

Other by-products of the fermentation and distillation processes are carbon dioxide gas and yeast.

The CO2 Plant has a rated capacity of 30 tons of purified liquid carbon dioxide per day.

Yeast is recovered and dried in the yeast plant for use as an animal feed supplement. Dried yeast output is 800 kgs. per day

 

WASTE RECOVERY (WATER & WASTE MATERIAL MANAGEMENT)

To support its operations, CAT re-circulates all process cooling water by spray cooling. CAT's circulating water system, which serves the cooling requirements of both the Raw and Refinery houses, consists of one spray pond and three cold water ponds.

CAT's wastewater is sent to the Wastewater treatment Plant consisting of an anaerobic digester and seventeen (17) facultative lagoons covering an area of roughly 30 hectares.

Treated final effluents gathered from the wastewater treatment plant is being used to irrigate nearby sugarcane fields of Hacienda Luisita.