DAI - Sociedade de Desenvolvimento Agro-Industrial, S.A. is one of the most modern sugar refineries in the European continent. Its main activities include the manufacture and marketing of white sugar, as well as the sale of cogeneration power. The industrial unit of the company covers a gross area of 750,000 m2 and is strategically positioned in Coruche, in the district of Santarém, about seventy kilometers away from Lisbon. It has excellent access to port terminals, which allow the quick collection of raw material received by sea. DAI's production capacity of refined white sugar is 250,000 tons per year. Today, the Iberian Peninsula is the market where the company makes most of its sales, reaching an annual turnover above 70 million euros. DAI takes as its primary objective to provide fully satisfactory solutions in order to fill the wants associated with the value chain of its customers. Sugar is precisely a complete answer to those