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Nigeria’s foremost sugar refinery, Dangote Sugar
Refinery, has successfully obtained the Food Safety Systems (FSSC 22000)
Certification).
The certification, which is a standard fully recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), comes on the heels of other standards already obtained by the refinery. The standards include ISO 9001:2008, ISO 22000:2005 and ISO OHSAS 18001:2007.
The recommendation for DSR’s FSSC 22000 certification was given in November 2015, after series of painstaking processes, followed by internal and surveillance audits conducted by the SGS, a world leading food safety certification and standards organisation.
According to the acting Group Managing Director, Dangote Sugar Refinery, Abdullahi Sule, “This feat is part is of the Sugar Refinery’s strategic drive to meet its customer’s needs using good manufacturing practices, enhanced food safety culture and management systems, as well as to sustain its frontline position in the sugar sub-sector in line with internationally accepted practices and standards”.
Dangote Sugar Refinery is actively pursuing a backward integration master plan with a target of producing a total of 1.5 million tons of sugar per annum. The target is to enable it meet the national sugar masterplan.
It plans an additional investment of N180 billion for four factories in Sokoto and Kebbi States. It already has 150,000 hectares of land allocated for the project in Kogi, Kwara, Jigawa, Sokoto, Taraba and Kebbi states.
Dangote Sugar acquired the moribund 50,000 tons per annum capacity sugar producing factory, the Savannah Sugar Company Limited in Numan, Adamawa State, in 2002. The buy-over, midwifed by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), was the fallout of the failure of several attempts made by the federal government to reposition the nation’s foremost sugar company.
The certification, which is a standard fully recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), comes on the heels of other standards already obtained by the refinery. The standards include ISO 9001:2008, ISO 22000:2005 and ISO OHSAS 18001:2007.
The recommendation for DSR’s FSSC 22000 certification was given in November 2015, after series of painstaking processes, followed by internal and surveillance audits conducted by the SGS, a world leading food safety certification and standards organisation.
According to the acting Group Managing Director, Dangote Sugar Refinery, Abdullahi Sule, “This feat is part is of the Sugar Refinery’s strategic drive to meet its customer’s needs using good manufacturing practices, enhanced food safety culture and management systems, as well as to sustain its frontline position in the sugar sub-sector in line with internationally accepted practices and standards”.
Dangote Sugar Refinery is actively pursuing a backward integration master plan with a target of producing a total of 1.5 million tons of sugar per annum. The target is to enable it meet the national sugar masterplan.
It plans an additional investment of N180 billion for four factories in Sokoto and Kebbi States. It already has 150,000 hectares of land allocated for the project in Kogi, Kwara, Jigawa, Sokoto, Taraba and Kebbi states.
Dangote Sugar acquired the moribund 50,000 tons per annum capacity sugar producing factory, the Savannah Sugar Company Limited in Numan, Adamawa State, in 2002. The buy-over, midwifed by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), was the fallout of the failure of several attempts made by the federal government to reposition the nation’s foremost sugar company.
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