Company Description:
Biscom Inc. is a sugar manufacturing company engaged in raw sugar
manufacturing and sugar refining.
The company, then known as Binalbagan-Isabela Sugar Company was
established in 1947, utilizing the machineries of five (5) war damaged centrals, namely:
the government controlled Binalbagan Estate, the Montilla group controlled Isabela
Sugar Company, and the Spanish group controlled centrals, Palma, San Isidro and
Bearin. The move, which was encouraged by the late President Manuel Roxas, gave the
government through the Philippine National Bank a majority control of company stock.
In February 1951, the government offered its share for bidding and a planters
group known as the Philippine Planters Investment Company (PPIC), headed by the late
Eugenio Lopez, Sr. acquired control of the company.
In 1962 the PPIC group sold out to the Trans-Philippine Investment Corporation
(TPIC), a Makati-based management firm, which owned and managed the company until
1985.
In 1985, BISCOM was sold to A. Chan group with Mr. Antonio Chan as its
President and Chairman of the Board.
In 1994 up to present, Mr. Jose Mari L. Chan, eldest son of the late Antonio
Chan, took over as President and Chairman of the Board.
In February 26, 1997 the business name of Binalbagan-Isabela Sugar Company
was officially changed to BISCOM Inc.
BISCOM started operations by serving an area of approximately 10,000 hectares
of sugarcane plantations. By 1958, ten years after it started operations, it was serving an
area of about 20,000 hectares. At present, 35,000 hectares comprise the BISCOM mill
district, which is within four (4) municipalities and one (1) city namely: Binalbagan
where the mill site is situated, Hinigaran in the north, Himamaylan City in the south,
Isabela and Moises Padilla in the east.
The plant site comprises a total land area of 640,000m
2 and employs six hundred
nineteen (619) regular personnel in raw sugar production, quality control, warehousing,
technical services, engineering support services, transportation and administration.
The raw sugar plant has a rated capacity of 14,000 tons cane per day. For the
recent crop year, C.Y. 2010-2011, Biscom Inc. milled 2,231,470.495 tons of sugar cane
and manufactured 3,967,162.88 Lkg-bags of raw sugar and produced 72,882.565 metric
tons of molasses as by-product.
On February of 2011 Biscom started operation of its sugar refinery plant, which
is located within the raw sugar factory compound. The new sugar refinery, was
commissioned by Tate and Lyle Process Technology, and has a rated capacity of 750
metric tons per day, equivalent to 15,000 LKG bags of refined sugar per day.
The fully-automated sugar refinery employs about sixty (60) regular employees
and staff plus additional contractual employees for bagging and cleaning. It uses TaloPhosphatation technology for clarification and ion-exchange for de-colorization.
