Wilmar Sugar Australia

Wilmar Sugar Australia is a subsidiary of the Singapore-based company Wilmar International that incorporates sugar production business and renewable energy cogeneration.

By-products from the production of sugar include molasses (which is used to produce ethanol) and bagasse (which is used to generate electricity).

It is Australia’s largest biomass renewable energy generator.

The Company originates in the 1855 Colonial Sugar Refining Company, renamed CSR Limited in 1873.

In 2009, CSR Limited created Sucrogen to handle its sugar activities then sold it to Wilmar International on 31 March 2010 for US$1.47 billion.