PICS: Gledhow Mill ready for sugar crushing season
The crushing season will close again in November.
The opening of Gledhow Sugar Mill sugar crushing season was filled with excitement for workers and their family and friends last week.
General manager Andrew Francis said this year they expect to crush 1.4 million tons of sugar and produce about 160 000 tons of refined sugar.
“It’s really exciting for us to open the crushing season and this year we see a little bit of growth as last year we crushed 1.3 million tons of sugar cane and in the coming two years, we expecting to crush about 1.6 million tons of sugar cane a year,” said Francis.
The mill gets sugar cane from the different farms from Upper Tongaat in the south, Amatikulu in the north and Kranskop in the midlands.
The crushing season will close again in November.
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