Enmore sugar plant over start-up hurdles -Ramsammy

Packaged Demerara Gold sugar on a conveyor belt at the Enmore Packaging plant yesterday.

Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy yesterday assured that the Enmore Packaging Plant has overcome start-up problems, although production at the facility is still well below capacity at 10,000 tonnes of sugar with just over two months remaining for the year.

During a tour of the East Coast Demerara facility yesterday afternoon, Ramsammy said that the factory has moved past the teething problems it had experienced after its commissioning in May, 2011.

He said that Surendra Engineering, the Indian company that built the factory, has completed its contract with the Guyana Sugar Corpora-tion (GuySuCo) since the defects liability period in the