(Business in Cameroon) - Consumers will soon see on supermarkets’ shelves the new sugar boxes marketed by the Cameroonian incorporated company International Sugar Company SA (Insuco).

The company indeed received the approval from the Cameroonian government to produce sugar cubes and sticks since January 2016. It had a refined sugar cane processing and marketing plant, located in the city of Douala since December 2015. This production tool should start with a production capacity of 25 tons per day for sugar cubes which is hoped to be increased to 75 tons by January 2017 and 20 tons per day for the sugar sticks. Insuco SA claims to have worldwide partnerships such as the international French group Louis Dreyfus.

The new sugar operator even plans in a short term future to expand its activities to the entire Central African Economic and Monetary sub-regional community. Which will bring some competition to the Société sucrière du Cameroun (Sosucam), local subsidiary of French Somdiaa who, nevertheless remains a giant compared to the newcomer thanks to a grinding capacity of 1.5 million tons sugar canes per year for an installed production of 150,000 tons. Leader in the sugar sector in Cameroon, Sosucam has on the Mbandjock site a modern unit with a capacity of 100 tons sugar canes (Tc)/hour. In Nkoteng, the production is of 220 Tc/hour.

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