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 which 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”.
He added,
“the certifications will see to an increased consumer confidence in the Dangote
Sugar brand, help eliminate production loss time in its refinery, and
ultimately see to the realisation of an increased market share, with increased
patronage by existing and prospective customers who have been eagerly awaiting
the achievement of the FSSC 22000 certification by Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc”.
Dangote
Sugar Refinery already has the Food Safety Management Systems certification
(NIS ISO 22000:2005) issued by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON). The
Food Safety Management System is a standard that guides the refinery’s core
business, the refining of high quality sugar using safe practices to
manufacture finished product using hygienically habits in the production
processes.
The
Food Safety Management System, FSMS, (ISO 22000:2005); certification was the third
in the series of ISO certification on Quality, Process Safety/Security and Food
Safety, achieved by the Sugar Refinery, and thus making it the only sugar
organization in the country with three ISO certification.
In
addition to the Food Safety Management System, (FSMS) ISO 22000:2005; Dangote
Sugar Refinery is also ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System (QMS), and ISO
18001:2007 Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS), certified.
These
certifications attest to Sugar Refinery’s relentless efforts at achieving its
set goal to be one of the world’s leading integrated sugar producers, with high
quality products and using best practices in the day to day running of its
operations, in line with internationally accepted 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 master plan.
It plans an additional investment
of N180 billion for 4 factories in Sokoto and Kebbi States and 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.
Dangote Industries
Limited emerged as the preferred bidder and core investor and after which it
quickly went into turnaround activities in the Company. To put the company back
in shape, Dangote began investments of several billions of Naira.
Specifically, N12 billion initial investments was made
by Dangote Group as core running expenses into the business after the
take-over in the first five years.
The areas
that gulped the money, included factory and estate rehabilitation; purchase of
vehicles, trucks and heavy duty equipment; salaries and wages; farm inputs like
fertilizers and chemicals, among others; spare parts for factory and heavy duty
equipment and payments in the form of Sugar Development Levy.
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