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Replaced diffuser chain enables higher extraction rate at sugar mill

SALCHAIN recently manufactured and supplied a 1.2 km 250mm pitch replacement diffuser chain to RCL FOODS’s - Komati Sugar Mill in Mpumalanga. The chain, which...

RCL taking legal action as extra R234m ‘special levy’ hits sugar business

RCL FOODS is expecting a 30% drop in earnings per share driven by a special levy raised by the South African Sugar Association on...

Amended Tongaat rescue plan to be put to vote before October

VOTING on the business rescue plans of Tongaat Hulett Limited (THL) and its subsidiaries, Voermol Feeds (Voermol) and Tongaat Hulett Sugar SA (THSSA), was...

Business rescue plan released for Tongaat’s property arm

THE business rescue plan for Tongaat Hulett Developments (THD) was released last week and creditors will vote on the plan on May 30. On...

Fingers point to BRPs for canegrowers’ loss of revenue

SA CANEGROWERS is disappointed by the 8% drop in the final price that growers will receive for the cane processed (the RV price) for...

Gledhow sugar mill in business rescue

SA Canegrowers noted with grave concern last week that the Gledhow sugar mill has been placed under business rescue. This announcement is a further...

Delay in Tongaat group’s rescue plan and CEO departs

TONGAAT Hulett has asked for a month’s extension to the January 31 deadline to publish the group’s business rescue plan. Tongaat Hulett Limited (THL),...

Business rescue is ‘not the end’ for 130-year-old company’s operations

TONGAAT Hulett has advised shareholders that the Board has commenced voluntary business rescue proceedings for two operations in South Africa, Tongaat Hulett Limited and...

Tongaat Hulett progresses debt restructuring

PROGRESS with Tongaat Hulett’s debt restructuring plan has resulted in a new R600 million Borrowing Base facility being concluded with the South African lender...

JSE suspends sugar giant from trading

TONGAAT HULETT has had its shares suspended from trading on the JSE. The company confirmed the temporary suspension in a Sens on Monday, saying...

Sugar producer terminates R5bn rights offer

SUGAR producer Tongaat Hulett announced on Friday 24 June the establishment of a restructuring committee, and the appointment of non-executive director Piers Marsden as...

Soil scientist addresses crop nutrition at Felixton growers day

SENIOR Soil Scientist, Dr Louis Titshall from the South African Sugar Research Institute spoke at a recent Felixton growers’ day. Titshall focused on fertiliser...

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