MANILA – Lucio Tan (LT) Group intends to revive its Bacolod-based alcohol distillery in 2019, years after it was closed for alleged environmental violations.
Asian Alcohol Corp.’s 10-hectare plant, located 30 kilometers south of Bacolod City in Negros Occidental, was closed in 2008 for violating various environmental laws.
“Kapitan (Lucio Tan Sr.) made a strategic move to take one step backward in the hope of moving forward, a strategy that teaches us how to realize our future by our sacrifices of today. Next year, Asian Alcohol will begin its biofuel production. Like Absolut Distillers, it will blaze new paths and return to its old glory,” LT Group director and Tanduay Distillers Inc. president Lucio Tan Jr. said.
Asian Alcohol’s factory houses alcohol aging and wastewater treatment facilities, and converts distillery waste into biogas energy for its power requirements.
It used to have a daily rated capacity of 210,000 liters of quality ethyl alcohol.
Tan said Asian Alcohol will be patterned after the success of Absolut Distillers Inc. in Batangas, which has made more than P880 million from its bioethanol operations since 2015. (GMA News)
