Sucrerie du Kwilu Ngongo is a sugar manufacturing company in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The sugar mill produces crystalline table sugar and maintains a

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that manufactures rum under the brand ''Kwilu Rum''. It is the oldest sugar mill in the country, having been established in 1925.

Location

The headquarters of the company and its main factory are located in the town of

Kwilu Ngongo Kwilu Ngongo is a town in western Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located in the Kongo Central province. It is fairly near the Angola border. Transport It is served by a station on the national railway system. See also * Railway ...

, in

Kongo Central Province Congo or The Congo may refer to either of two countries that border the Congo River in central Africa: * Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, capital Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire, sometimes referred to a ...

(formerly Bas Zaire Province), in the southwestern part of DR Congo, close to the international order with Angola. This is approximately , by road, northeast of the port city of Matadi, where the provincial headquarters are located. Kwilu Ngongo is located about , by road, southwest of the country's capital city,

Kinshasa Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one o ...

. The geographical coordinates of Kwilu Ngongo Sugar Refinery are: 05°30'36.0"S, 14°42'16.0"E (Latitude:-5.510000; Longitude:14.704444).

Overview

The sugar factory which was established in 1925, is the oldest sugar mill in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is also the largest, by sugar output, contributing 63,400 metric tons of finished product annually in 1990. At that time, it accounted for 66 percent of the county's domestic sugar output, on an annual basis. Between 1996 and 2021, it was the only functional sugar manufacturer in the county as both Lotokila Sugar Refinery and South Kivu Sugar Refinery were shut down. As of 2019, KNSR had of cane under cultivation. Each yielded 70 tons of raw cane on average. The refinery had crushing capacity of 5,500 tons of raw cane per day. At that time sugar production was 69,811 tons annually.

Ownership

The sugar refinery and embedded alcohol distillery are co-owned by the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a private

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known as

Finasucre Finasucre is a Belgian family holding company which is primarily active in the sugar industry. It is the second Belgian sugar company with its daughter Iscal Sugar, after Raffinerie Tirlemontoise. Finasucre is controlled by the Lippens family. S ...

, based in Belgium, with operations globally. The two shareholders established a special purpose joint venture company called ''Compagnie Sucrière Kwilu Ngongo'', which owns and operates the business. The table below illustrates the shareholding in the

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of Compagnie Sucrière Kwilu Ngongo.

Kwilu Ngongo Distillery

Embedded within the sugar refinery is the Kwilu Ngongo Distillery, which produces ''Kwilu Rum''. The distillery is owned and operated by the sugar mill. It has daily production capacity of with annual output of .

References

External links

Chronology of Finasucre Group: 1886 - 2010
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