State-run refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) has short-listed four sugar mills in Andhra Pradesh as acquisition targets in a bid to source ethanol and blend it with petrol.

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		</script> </DIV><p class='TableClas'>&#34We have short-listed four sugar mills in Andhra Pradesh to augment our ethanol production. The proposal is in a preliminary stage and would take another couple of months to close,&#34 said an HPCL executive who did not wish to be quoted. 
</p><p class='TableClas'>The government has made it mandatory for blending 5 per cent ethanol

HPCL to buy four sugar mills in Andhra

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