Enmore and Wales set new sugar output records
Stabroek News
March 24, 2004
Enmore established a new daily production record recently, with 277.1 tonnes of sugar last week. And Wales estate turned in the best grinding hours in one week with 155.5 hours, as well as the highest tonnes cane, 15,625 crushed in a week.
According to a release from Guysuco's Communi-cation Department, these production records were achieved at the week ending last Friday.
Guysuco said in addition to setting the new daily record, the Enmore location had the distinction of being the first to earn two days pay for the crop so far. This was achieved with the production of 1,483 tonnes of sugar or 130% of the week's target.
At Wales the estate surpassed the previous best grinding hours of 155.1 recorded in 1973 and 15,604 tonnes cane crushed last year.
The release also said that last week all estates with the exception of Uitvlugt surpassed the production target for the week and earned additional pay under the production incentive scheme. Sugar production which is on the upward trend after a disappointing crop-start in late January is targeted at 130,431 tonnes for the first crop this year.
Factory manager at Enmore, Malcolm Henry commended the field staff for the supply of good quality canes.
He observed that the achievement was all the more commendable given the 137 possible grinding hours weekly. He noted that the factory experienced 10 hours out-of -cane and a factory downtime of only 8.92 hours.
At Wales, factory manager Yusuf Abdul is pleased with the strides made at the estate. He lauded the workers, adding that the achievement is even more significant given the age of the equipment in the factory. Abdul also recognised good maintenance standards and is upbeat about the good working relationship between management and staff at the estate.
Late last year management and staff had clashed over a problematic chute which was affecting the weekly production target. The workers were on strike for more than a week, but later returned after the chute was put on a trial run and was deemed acceptable.
This is the tenth week of grinding and estates are set to grind for another five weeks before stopping for out-of-crop maintenance, the release added.