Brazilians set to invest in $119 million sugarcane ethanol plant in South Africa

In South Africa, South African-Brazilian company Silvapen Group plans to invest in a $119 million sugar-to-ethanol plant that will use 15,000ha of sugarcane as feedstock. The facility is planned to produce 1.5 million cubic liters of ethanol in addition to 94MW of electricity, of which 84MW will be exported to the grid. Experts expect that cane production could reach 100 tons per hectare compared to 80 tons in Brazil.