Compagnie Sucrière Sénégalaise

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CSS sugar refinery in Richard Toll

The Compagnie Sucrière Sénégalaise (CSS) in Richard Toll in northern Senegal is part of the Groupe Mimran group .

Company data

CSS cultivates 11,200 hectares of agricultural land, employs 8,000 people in the seven-month harvest season (as of 2018), processes 1,500,000 tons of sugar cane annually , produces 140,000 tons of cane sugar and 13,000,000 liters of bioethanol . It is the largest employer in Senegal after the state.

history

Jacques Mimran, who grew up as a French Algerian and Sephardic Jew in modest circumstances, began his entrepreneurial activity in Senegal in 1946 with the establishment of the Grands Moulins de Dakar . From 1970 he put all the means available to him into the project of the Compagnie Sucrière Sénégalaise . A large agro-industrial complex with a sugar cane plantation and a sugar refinery for the extraction of molasses, sugar and ethanol was to be built on the salty soils of the alluvial plain of the Senegal River around Richard Toll due to the effects of the tides . When Jacques Mimran died in the middle of the construction phase in 1975, his son Jean-Claude Mimran led the project to success, not least because of the activities of the organization pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Sénégal from 1972 and the completion of the Diama dam in 1986 as well a 16-kilometer-long connecting canal between the Senegal River and the Lac de Guiers freshwater reservoir, which is eminently important for the whole country, the plantation and the entire city could be supplied with freshwater all year round. In 1975 sugar production began. In 1990 the production capacity was increased to 90,000 tons of sugar. In 2008 a project began to increase it to 150,000 tons. In addition, since 2008 there has been a plant for the distillation of 60,000 liters of ethanol per day. In 2011 new steam boilers with an output of 150 tons of steam per hour and a power plant with an output of 25 megawatts were put into operation.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CSS: Cane fields in the desert ( Memento from June 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive )

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