 "In today's market, one sees a flurry of new brands across medical stores as well as online")
Even as the domestic sugarcane crushing season 2019-20 continues, sugar mills have simultaneously ramped up hand sanitiser manufacturing capacity to almost 100,000 litres per day to cater its rising demand following the coronavirus outbreak. Apart from sugar mills, grain based distilleries have also set up additional capacity of 100,000 litres per day taking the total additional capacity to 200,000 litres per day.
Responding to the advisory by the central and state governments for increasing the production of ethanol/ethyl alcohol based hand sanitisers, the sugar mills, particularly in Uttar Pradesh, have moved fast to supplement supply with greenfield facilities at their
