August 22 and 23, 2025

$280 USD

The pre-congress of the XXXII ISSCT Centennial Congress 2025 will offer attendees a unique opportunity to visit sugar mills and Cenicaña in Colombia. This event will be divided into two zones: participants who choose the northern zone will be accommodated in Pereira, while those opting for the central and southern zones will stay in Cali. During these visits, academic topics focused on the areas of field, harvest, and factory operations will be addressed. The pre-congress technical visits include: internal transportation, technical visits to two sugar mills and/or Cenicaña, lunch, and refreshments.

Include:

  • Lunch
  • Transport
  • Bilingual Guide
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Zone 1 | Central and southern of Valle del Cauca

Transport Information – Pre-Congress Zone 1 (Valle del Cauca)

Participants attending the Pre-Congress in Valle del Cauca will arrive at Cali Airport from their city of origin, where a private Tecnicaña transport will pick them up and take them to their hotels.

During the Precongress, a private transport service will collect participants from their hotels and take them to each technical visit at the sugar mills. At the end of each visit, transport will return them to their

Field-Factory:

  • New resilient Cenicaña Colombia varieties

              Biodiverse sugarcane fields & natural corridors

  • Sugarcane Climate-Smart Agriculture

              Digital Ag and on-site specific agriculture (AEPS)

  • SmartCane operations center

  • Smart factory solutions: Digital tools for the sugarcane industry

              Unlocking the bioenergy potential of sugarcane by-products

  • Transfer & extension strategies for sustainability

    

Factory: 

  • Milling: Preparation and Extraction

  • 100% Mechanical Harvesting Management in a Refining Process

  • Alcohol Production and Added Value from Vinasse: Additives for the Construction Industry and Others

  • The Golden Era of Paper in the Search for Sustainable Packaging

Field – Harvest:

  • Sustainability: Advanced Irrigation, Sustainable Practices, Compost Application

  • Harvesting: Collection Equipment Powered by Natural Gas, Ethanol-Diesel, and Electric Fuel

  • Precision Agriculture

Factory:

  • Preparation and Milling Station

  • Strategies to Become the Sugar Mill with the Lowest Water Consumption

  • Evaporation and Crystallisation

  • Distillery

Field – Harvest: 

  • Development of a strategic irrigation plan: technical irrigation: high-frequency irrigation with controlled water levels.

  • Use of drones for field work and crop optimization.

  • Predictive models for sucrose and TCH.

  • Ecological Park: restoration and characterization of birds and sustainability with increased organic farming areas.

Factory:

  • Visit to the preparation and milling station.

  • Heating technologies: plate heating.

  • Use of multi-calender first-effect evaporators.

Field – Harvest: 

  • Fleet Control Operation: Telemetry, Wagon Maintenance Management, and Drive Master

  • Mechanised Harvesting: Mobile Dispatch, SCI Colombia, and Optimisation Matrix

  • Mechanised Planting

Factory:

  • Cogeneration: Incauca SAS, the Largest Cogeneration Plant in the Country, Steam and Energy Generation

  • Anhydrous Alcohol Production: Raw Material Pre-Treatment, Mix Preparation with B and C Molasses, Continuous Fermentation, Distillation and Dehydration – Vinasse Management

  • Compost Production: Production of Biocane Powder and Biocane Soil Conditioner from Sugar and Alcohol Processing Residues; the Largest Organic Fertiliser Production Plant in Latin America, Third Largest in the Americas.

Zone 2 | Northern of Valle del Cauca y Risaralda

Transport Information – Pre-Congress Zone 2 (Risaralda)

For participants attending the Pre-Congress in Risaralda, with visits to Risaralda and Riopaila sugar mills, two arrival options are available:

1️⃣ Fly to Pereira Airport, where a private Tecnicaña transport will collect you and take you to your hotel in Pereira.
2️⃣ Fly to Cali Airport, where a private Tecnicaña transport will take you by road to your hotel in Pereira (approximately 220 km, a 3-hour journey).

During the two days of the Pre-Congress, Tecnicaña will provide transportation between the hotel and the sugar mills.

📅 On Sunday, 24 August 2025, a private transport service will pick up participants from their hotel in Pereira and transfer them to Cali in the morning.

Field – Harvest: 

  • ASONORTE: Collaborative management for agricultural production and sustainability in the northern Cauca Valley.

  • Varieties, Sucrose, Ripening

  • Precision Agriculture Technologies (LiDAR, GIS)

  • Harvest quality and implementation of Louisiana-type harvesters

Factory:

  • Control Room

  • Sugarcane preparation with a heavy-duty defiber

  • Coffee husks as boiler fuel

  • Cogeneration

  • Wastewater Treatment Plant

Field – Harvest: 

  • High-Performance Mechanical Harvesting: Operations to Increase Harvester Efficiency

  • Zero Stomping: Machinery Modifications to Reduce Cane Stalk Damage

  • Fertigation: Application of Vinasse as a Potassium Source

  • Canteriser: Simultaneous Subsoiling, Residue Management, Polishing, and Furrowing with Automatic Pilot

Factory:

  • Vinasse Evaporation in the Distillery: Falling Film and Forced Circulation Evaporators

  • Cogeneration: Energy Business Enablers

  • Continuous Pans for A and B Massecuite

  • Water Consumption in the Factory: Successful Reduction Initiative