Royal Swaziland Sugar Corporation Limited (RSSC)

Posted by Staff Writer on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 6:42pm.

Simunye Sugar Estate

P O Box 1 Simunye Swaziland

Phone No.  748 268 383 8600

Fax No. 748 268 383 8956

Chairman Absalom Themba Dlamini

CEO or MD  John Du Plessis

Name of External Affairs or Press Contact  Muhawu Maziya

Royal Swaziland Sugar Corporation Limited (RSSC) is a Swaziland-based company that operates in the sugar industry. The Company has two business units, agricultural and manufacturing with the latter divided into sugar and ethanol production lines. It operates over 20,000 hectare irrigated sugar cane on two estates, delivering over two million tons of cane per season to its two sugar mills. These two mills crush cane at a combined throughput of 700 tons per hour, producing over 400,000 tons of sugar per season. The Company also operates a sugar refinery, which has the capacity to produce 150,000 tons of refined sugar per season, and a 32 million liter capacity ethanol plant. The Company operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Royal Swazi Distillers (RSD), and two affiliate companies: IYSIS/MSCo Sugar Partnership and Mananga Sugar Packers (MSP).