Other researchers are looking into creating second-generation ethanol, and some companies in Florida and Australia make paper plates and food storage containers out of bagasse.

Manufacturers turn it into compostable paper products with minimal processing. Without companies utilizing bagasse and transforming it into useful products, it would end up in a landfill.

In New Orleans, Valentine Pulp & Paper Co. announced that it would build a $2,633,000 mill at Lockport, La. to make newsprint from bagasse, a waste fiber left after grinding sugar cane.

In such a position, bagasse-based tableware can be used as an alternative to making cups as they are thicker and more rigid compared to paper or plastic cups.

Developers of a new plant in Jeanerette hope to turn the waste produced in sugar cane processing into fuel.

Facing pressure on its margins due to increasing raw material costs, Star Paper Mills Ltd is planning to use agri byproducts such as “bagasse” as feedstock. Bagassse is fibrous materials such ...

Sources said that the current price of bagasse in the local market ranges from Rs5,000 to Rs8,000 per tonne, depending on the quality of the product. With bagasse prices linked to coal, the price ...

Every day, Ngorn Makara collects the large blue buckets that the sugarcane juice vendors use to dispose of bagasse – the dry pulpy fibrous material that remains once the juice is extracted – and ...

Developers of a new plant in Jeanerette hope to turn the waste produced in sugar cane processing into fuel.