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Pantaleon II

Environmental & Social Review Summary

This Environmental and Social Review Summary is prepared and distributed in advance of the IFC Board of Directors’ consideration of the proposed transaction. Its purpose is to enhance the transparency of IFC’s activities, and this document should not be construed as presuming the outcome of the Board of Director’s decision. Board dates are estimates only.
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Project number 27345
CountryGuatemala
SectorAgriculture and Forestry
DepartmentAgribusiness
Company namePantaleon Sugar Holdings Company Limited
Environmental categoryB
StatusActive
Date ESRS disclosedDecember 22, 2008
Previous EventsInvested: July 28, 2009
Signed: May 28, 2009
Approved: February 26, 2009
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Overview of IFC's scope of review
The scope of review of Pantaleon’s compliance with IFC’s Performance Standards for existing operations and those under construction or expansion (ethanol plant, mills and plantations) included an assessment of the company’s management capacity of its environmental, health and safety and social performance in the development, expansion and operation of its mills and sugarcane fields; ensuring that social and environmental management processes are integrated into the company’s business management process; occupational health & safety and terms of employment in sugarcane plantation and harvesting operations as well as in operation of expanded milling facilities and power plants; life and fire safety; labor practices own operations and in the supply chain; ensuring quality and sustainability of potable water supply; management of air emissions from all sources including any bagasse-fired steam and co-generation activities; pest management in agriculture and raw material/product storage activities; management of solid, liquid and hazardous wastes from agriculture and processing activities; energy consumption and energy efficiency, including greenhouse gas emissions and carbon finance opportunities; community relationships and community development, and use of security forces; land acquisition process for sugarcane plantation development, facilities expansion, and land use permitting; and cultural heritage. The review also included an update on the status of the Environmental and Social Action Plan for the previous investment.
Project description
Pantaleon Sugar Holdings Company Limited (“Pantaleon”) is the largest sugar producer in Central America, with mills located in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras. It supplies raw and refined sugar to the domestic market in Guatemala, raw sugar to the domestic market in Nicaragua, and exports raw and refined sugar to the world market including the U.S. In addition, Pantaleon’s co-generation facilities supply power for sale to the national power networks in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras.

The purpose of the investment is to support Pantaleon’s ongoing investment program which has and will include:

- expanding ethanol production capacity in Guatemala and building an ethanol distillery in Nicaragua; and
- expanding electricity co-generation capacity in Guatemala.