The past year has seen tripling of world sugar prices. It is unlikely to revert to a single digit figure in the foreseeable future, largely because sugar has effectively become a “petro-commodity” following oil prices. On the back of high prices, the global sugar industry is going through a tremendous resurgence as millers and refiners make significant investment to modernise their operations. The cane sugar sector is set to expand as the beet sugar sector in the EU contracts. However, in Russia, beet sugar production will continue to expand as it aims to become self-sufficient by 2010.

Sugarcane and sugarbeet are no longer just sugar crops, but increasingly seen as energy crops. With global ethanol and biofuels production forecasted to expand by 30% in 2007, cane and beet will be the key feedstocks. Onsite power production through bagasse cogeneration is currently undergoing a resurgence too, with the realisation that its potential has yet to be fully exploited in the sugar industry. Significant advances in sugar processing suggest that direct production of white sugar in a cane sugar mill has arrived offering significant opportunity to increase mill profitability. Further, advances in process conversion technologies are informing the installation of biorefinery alongside a mill to produce high value co-products from by-products of sugar processing. The dynamics of the sugar industry are changing irrevocably.

	F.O. Licht's World Sugar Yearbook 2008
	FO Licht's International Sugar & Sweetener Report
	FO Licht's European Ethanol Price Report
	A Detailed Market Study on the Brazilian Meat and Livestock Industry
	Brazilian Meat Monitor
	Sugar Cane International
	FO Licht's World Ethanol & Biofuels Report

International Sugar Journal is the world's leading sugar industry magazine, and features papers from expert contributors directly involved in all of these key developments, as well as regional features from India, Pakistan, South America and other important areas. The new technological advances also feature heavily in the editorial calendar of International Sugar Journal in the form of our Cogeneration Review, World Ethanol Review and Biofuels Focus issue.

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