The South Indian Sugarcane and Sugar Technologists' Association
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:: ORGANISATION
       SISSTA was started in the year 1968 and registered under the Societies Act 1860.  SISSTA is an organization consisting of Sugarcane Experts, Sugar Technologists, Sugar Engineers, Finance Managers and Administrators working in the field of Sugar Industry.  It is an organization of scientific workers and others directly interested in the technological advancement of the Sugar Industry.

  The SISSTA is not a research Laboratory on the conventional sense, that it must have a laboratory equipped with instruments and apparatus and manner by Scientists and Technologists but is an organization devoted to coordinating research activities viz. investigations, innovations or inventions, carried out in various laboratories run by specific research institutions like Anna University, Indian Institute of Technology, Sugar Research Institute and in the laboratories of member Sugar Mills, Sugarcane Farms etc.

:: OBJECTIVES

The objects of the Association are as follows:

  1. To promote knowledge of the science and practice of sugar technology for persons following or studying for this profession and other kindred branches of science.
  2. To achieve these objects, there is a Research Committee under the chairmanship of the President consisting of member technologists and the problems received from the sugar mills are solved in various already established research laboratories.  The Association act as a coordination body and supplies necessary technical know how to the needy sugar factories.
  3. To carryout or sponsor schemes of research relating to sugar industry and allied fields.
  4. To serve as an authoritative professional body on all matters pertaining to the Profession of sugar technology.
  5. To print, publish and circulate papers, books, journals and other technical and scientific literature and matters connected with the sugar industry.
  6. To look after the interest of the members of the Association, to bring about a standard of professional etiquette, to secure better employment conditions for them and to strive for general betterment of their knowledge.
  7. To provide opportunities for exchange of knowledge amongst the members of profession and their friends, and to give facilities for reading papers and
    delivering of lectures on subjects interesting to the profession and for the acquisition and dissemination of information connected with and useful to
    the profession by holding scientific discourses, conventions, seminars or  symposia and other means of information connected with and useful to the
    profession.
Contact Us
SISSTA
THE SOUTH INDIAN SUGARCANE & SUGAR
TECHNOLOGISTS' ASSOCIATION
49, Third Main Road, Gandhi Nagar, Adyar,
Chennai - 600 020. TAMILNADU.
Phone : 044 - 24415934
Fax : 044 - 24402324