Radico Khaitan Limited, one of India's major IMFL firms, announced the successful commissioning of its 350 KLPD greenfield grain distillery in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, combined with a captive power plant of 15 MW.

The entire campus will be self-sufficient in terms of power, relying mostly on biomass/non-carbon fuels.

The campus has a bottling capacity of over 15 million cases in addition to an annual ENA/absolute alcohol production capacity of over 10 million litres.

At the Sitapur facility, the company has also installed a malt maturation capacity of 10,000 barrels.

Lalit Khaitan, Chairman and Managing Director said,"I am very happy to announce the successful commissioning of our 350 KLPD grain distillery at Sitapur. I would like to congratulate our project team for the commissioning of the plant on committed timelines and within the estimated capex limit. We expect that the plant will fully stabilise within 2-3 weeks' time and shall achieve over 90% efficiency. Full financial benefit of the Sitapur manufacturing facility expected to be realised from Q3 FY24."