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Sugar group seeks to support moves to expand cane supply

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Agriculture and property management group Tongaat Hulett’s significant aim is to facilitate increased cane supply (including hectares under cane, yields and cane quality) to its mills for the 2011/2012 financial year.
25 Nov 11
 
 
AGROPROCESSING

Illovo aims for energy self-sufficiency in 3 to 5 years

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JSE-listed Illovo Sugar aims to move towards achieving self-sufficiency in electricity generation, as it increases its use of renewable energy, the sugar producer said on Wednesday. GM Graham Clark tells Engineering News Online that with ongoing...
23 Nov 11
 
 
AGROPROCESSING

Tongaat sees big potential for jobs in ethanol and power projects

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Electricity generation and ethanol production from sugarcane could save and create thousands of local jobs, mainly in rural areas, agriculture and property group Tongaat Hulett CEO Peter Staude said on Monday. The JSE-listed company calculated...
14 Nov 11
 
 
TRADING UPDATE

Tongaat Hulett to report stronger H1 operational performance

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Agricultural and property group Tongaat Hulett reported on Friday that its headline earnings for the interim period to September 30, 2011, were expected to be R501-million, compared with the R507-million earned in the same period last year....
04 Nov 11
 
 
Sugar

Group to assess Mpumalanga biomass-to-energy potential

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Engineering, management and specialist technical services group Aurecon and sugar producer TSB Sugar have been contracted by the Mpumalanga Cane Growers Association to undertake a feasibility study to investigate boosting economic development in...
09 Sep 11
 
 
SUGAR

Illovo continues drive to boost production capacity in Africa

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JSE-listed sugar producer Illovo said on Tuesday that the group continued with its drive to consolidate its position in South Africa and to significantly increase its cane and sugar production capacity outside the country. In the latest...
19 Jul 11
 
 
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Diffuser chain supplied to Sezela sugar mill

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Industrial consumables supplier Bearing Man Group (BMG) has supplied about R10-million worth of Tsubaki NFP250 chain to sugar producer Illovo Sugar’s Sezela mill, in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). The 2.6 km of chain was used to replace the mill’s two...
01 Jul 11
 
 
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Global sugar output increases but prices decline

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Since February, the global sugar market’s value has declined significantly, owing to a sharp increase in sugar availability, reports the International Sugar Organisation (ISO) in its ‘Quarterly Market Outlook’, released in May. The decline...
01 Jul 11
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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