CORPORACIÓN SAN DIEGO

Diego Sugarcane Mill in Guatemala . The company grew year-on-year with each harvest ’ s production and in 1987 , the Trinidad mill was sold to the Vilas , becoming the company ’ s main operation . Seventy percent of San Diego ’ s sugar production is exported to the US , Canada , Taiwan and parts of Europe , mainly , while the rest is sold in Guatemala to end consumers and companies as well .

San Diego is also , importantly , currently certified under ISO : 001 , ISO : 17025 , and ISO : 22000 standards .

“ We are striving to obtain the Bonsucro certification , which will allow us to export farther into Europe ,” adds INGENIO SAN DIEGO

Fraterno Vila , President of the Board of Directors at Corporación San Diego .

Energy for the new millennium As the new millennium dawned , Corporación San Diego diversified its operations toward electricity generation from biomass fuel .

San Diego only requires 20MW / h of the 90MW / h generated by its plant , with 50 % of the remaining 70MW / h sold by Comercializadora de Energy San Diego ( its affiliate for energy marketing ) to the domestic spot market . The other half is sold to other industry sectors and clients from small and mid-sized businesses .

In the last 30 months , power output from San Diego increased notably from the 2014-2015 harvest – by 100 % and 150 %. This resulted from investing in a new 46MW energy block , enabling Corporación San Diego to turn 2014 ’ s 102,000KW into nearly 208,000KW for 2016 and more than 261,000KW during 2017 . “ This turned out to become a very important investment , supporting a production increase for each

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