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LATIN AMERICA
cane , to become the first refinery to develop other business units .

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The company markets value-added products and today offers five varieties of sugar : brown , white , special white , refined and pulverized sugar .
Ingenio Risaralda has an electricity generating station capable of producing 13.5 megawatts at a frequency of 60 Hertz , capable of autosupply their operations and provide surplus to the national electricity system in Colombia . In addition , the company will open its new cogeneration power plant with a capacity of 33 MW .
This is coupled with the aforementioned operation to produce ethanol for fuel by using
Cesar Augusto Arango Isaza General Manager at Ingenio Risaralda
Arango is an Industrial Engineering that graduated in 1973 from the Technical University of Pereira , the capital of the department of Risaralda ( Colombia ). He started working at Ingenio Risaralda in February 1999 , and has been part of this family for more than 15 years , during which the company has experienced diversification in its product line and value creation . Arango has received individual awards such as the Order Gonzalo Vallejo by the Departmental Assembly of Risaralda , among others .
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