Oman inks deal to build $200m sugar refineryAn Omani company and Britain's Tate & Lyle Sugars, part of American Sugar Holdings (ASR Group), have signed an agreement with Oman's port of Sohar to build a $200 million sugar refinery there. Company officials said co More… |
Dubai sugar refinery halts work for 10 daysThe Al Khaleej Dubai refinery has briefly halted sugar processing as part of its routine "start-and-stop" strategy, its managing director Jamal Al Ghurair said on Monday. More… |
Legal row shuts Syrian sugar refineryA dispute over ownership led to production at Syria's National Sugar Co being stopped, according to a statement by the holding company's minority shareholders. It denied the stoppage was caused by poor security conditions in the troubled c More… |
Algeria firm to double sugar exportsAlgerian firm Cevital, the biggest sugar refiner in North Africa, expects to more than double sugar exports this year to 1 million tonnes after fixing technical problems at its main transport hub. Cevital owner and chief executive&nbs More… |
Algeria firm to double sugar exportsAlgerian firm Cevital, the biggest sugar refiner in North Africa, expects to more than double sugar exports this year to 1 million tonnes after fixing technical problems at its main transport hub. Cevital owner and chief executive&nbs More… |
Savola to buy Tate & Lyle stakes in Egypt, SaudiSaudi-based Savola Group is in talks to buy British sugar refiner and sweetener group Tate and Lyle's stakes in sugar refineries in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, a Savola executive said on Monday. The talks are about Tate & Lyle's 10 More… |
Dubai refinery imports Brazil sugarThe world's largest sugar refinery, the 1.5-million-tonne-a-year Al Khaleej plant in Dubai, is shifting to imports of raw sugar from Brazil taking advantage of falling freight rates, and is likely to shun Indian imports in 2009, said its gener More… |
Al Hafri to set up sugar refinery in SoharAl Hafri Sugar Refinery Co will build a new integrated sugar refinery complex in the Sohar Industrial Port in Oman. Al Hafri is part of HH Al Sayyid Asaad Bin Tariq Al Said's multi-faceted group of companies. Al Hafri Sugar Refiner More… |
Swiber deal with EIG for Mideast expansionSingapore's offshore oil engineering firm, Swiber Holdings, said it has signed an MoU with Emirates Investments Group to explore investment opportunities in the Gulf region, and the Middle East including Pakistan. The MOU encourages both p More… |
Savola plans to boost sugar refinery sizeSavola Group, the Middle East's second-largest sugar refiner, plans to sharply raise capacity at its plant in Jeddah within three years, the company's chief executive said. 'We plan to take the Saudi plant from 1.1 million tonnes (per year More… |








