Umfolozi Sugar Mill (USM) serves to trade quality products produced from a sustainable cane source.
Umfolozi Sugar Mill ensures sustainable profit margins are reached, in order to satisfy shareholders, by supplying these quality cane products which create and sustain USM jobs and also sustain indirect jobs that are created as a result of the sugar cane production process. The organisation plays an important role in sustaining the growers.
Umfolozi Sugar Mill has the mission to provide South Africans with the highest quality of cane across all the coastal mills. The company is committed to its quality control and to its efficiency with a target of crushing a minimum of 1.2 million tons of cane sugar in 36 weeks with a long term agreement of less than 6%. Through this, USM also aims to achieve a 93.5% sugar value recovery.
USM is committed to providing the highest quality of cane for the lowest cost per ton of sugar produced in South Africa. The company ensures it can achieve this goal by improving asset management, shifting toward automation and also improving and developing skills of labourers while making sure they operate in a safe working environment.
The company also promotes LEAN manufacturing which ensures there is minimum wastage during the manufacturing and production process. Umfolozi Sugar Mill supports the goals of the South African sugar industry, its partners and the cane growing and manufacturing sectors at large.
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