67TH ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE OF SIT AT WESTIN LEIPZIG HOTEL, GERMANY - 25TH - 28TH MAY 2008

Dear Member,

We are pleased to inform you that the 67^th Annual Technical Conference of SIT, INC, USA will be taking place at Westin Leipzig Hotel, Germany from 25^th – 28^th May 2008.  This is an important conference in which the following technical papers related to the development of the sugar industry will be discussed.  With the above technical conference the Sudzucker AG has also planned a tour to a sugar factory and to an alcohol plant on 28^th May 2008. 

Keynote Speaker (first speaker, 8:30AM Monday): Professor Dr. Markwart Kunz, Director Sudzucker, “Changing Conditions of the EU Sugar Industry”

1.     Michael Burchell, Quality Assurance Manager, American Sugar Refining/C&H Sugar   (Crockett, California) -  “Implementation of Automatic COA System” (title may change, but this is the subject matter)

2.     Ben Bernard, Corporate Manager – Electrical and Control Systems, American Sugar Refining, Inc. (Chalmette, Louisiana) – title TBD

3.     Ulrich Klute, Product Manager Process Control, Berthold Technologies GmbH & Co.  KG, (Bad Wildbad, Germany) – Microwave Premium Power Package for Determination of Brix and Density

4.     Gilles Schrevel, Raffinerie Tirlemontoise, SA (Tienen, Belgium) – “Thick Beet Juice   Storage – Status of Studies”

5.   Dr. Bernd-Christoph Schulze, Escon Engineering Services & Consulting GmbH  (Berlin,  Germany) – title TBD

6.   Olivier Thouvard, Regional Sales Director, Rotex Europe Ltd (Wavre, Belgium) - Rotex MS™ and Apex™ mechanical screeners (he also presented paper #901 at the 2006 LaBaule, France conference) – “Screening Solutions to Face the Development and Transformation of the Sugar Industry”

7.    Uwe Schwanke, VP Sales and Marketing, BMA, (Deutschland, Germany) – optimizing different sugar drying and cooling concepts and defining those critical conditions that lead to shift the advantage from one concept to another.

8.      Philipp Schluter, Factory Director, Sudzucker AG – The Sugar Factory at Zeitz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (needs to present Tuesday morning)

9.      Hartmut Hafemann and Burkhard Bartels, BMA – Modern Concepts for Sugar Ddrying and Cooling.

10.  Dr. Charley Richard and Tom Schwartz, SPRI (New Orleans, LA) -  Recent Biotech Developments in Sugar Beet and Sugar Cane

11.  George Carter, Process Manager, Redpath Sugars (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) – Elimination of Bonechar at the Toronto Refinery or something on energy efficiency

12.  Ahmed Vawda, Chief Sugar Technology Officer, Savola Sugar Middle East, “A Comparative Evaluation of Carbonatation and Phosphatation  for the Port Sokna Egypt Refinery”.

13.  Michael Saska and Vadim Kochergin, Audubon Sugar Institute, “Production and Storage of VHP and VLC Raw  Sugar”

Symposium Subjects:

A.       Final Molasses Purity

B.          Strategies to Reduce and Treat Waste Liquid Effluents

SIT Membership, Delegation Fee and Room Tariff

Membership fee of SIT                - USD 60/member

Registration Charges                  - USD 695.00/member.  The registration fee will

cover Mixer, technical sessions, luncheon, awards banquet & refinery tour/luncheon

Spouse/Guest Charges                   - USD 449/member.  The fee shall cover Mixer,

Spouse/guest programmes, awards banquet & refinery tour/luncheon

Hotel Charges          Single Room/Double          - EUR 125/per night

(Hotel – The Westin Leipzig, Germany)

PRE CONFERENCE TOUR

In conjunction with the above Conference, the STAI intends to undertake a pre-conference tour to refineries in a few neighboring European Countries.  The members interested in taking up the above tour are requested to contact the STAI Secretariat for further detail.