Manufacturer to supply equipment for Canal Sugar
Harris Pye Engineering Group UAE, a global service provider supplying the offshore, marine and industrial sectors, recently signed a contract with Canal Sugar, a joint UAE-Egypt business venture.
Following the agreement, Harris Pye will supply five 40tph, horizontal, three-pass, and multi-tubular smoke tube boilers to what is expected to be one of the largest beet sugar production facilities in the world.
From the Egyptian company, the facility will contribute to filling the shortage in sugar production by 75%, providing supplies worth USD $650mn and exporting by-products worth US$ $120mn annually.
Harris Pye will showcase its world-class engineering capabilities to execute the boiler system of Canal Sugar’s mega project in Al Minya, Egypt (350km south of the capital, Cairo). Utilising its well-equipped Sharjah workshop, Harris Pye will complete a portion of the fabrication required for the project before transporting it to Al Minya for the execution of the boiler system.
“The strength of Harris Pye lies in our ability to conceive turnkey solutions which best suit a customer’s specific requirements, and we are eager to apply this to meet the needs of this major project,” commented Mark Prendergast, Chief Executive Officer, Harris Pye.
The project of Canal Sugar aims at the development and reclamation of 77K ha desert land located at the West of Minya to grow 2.5mn MT of sugar beet per year in addition to other crops. Moreover, investments of US$ 1bn and the refinery’s capacity of 900k MT/year, highlight the major significance of the Canal Sugar project in bolstering two economies.
“These deliverables represent a critical component of our new state-of-the-art mega refinery project in Al Minya,” remarked Islam Salem, Chief Executive Officer, Canal Sugar.
