CST
Compagnie Sucrière du Tchad
OVERVIEW
The sugar cane plantations and the sugar manufacturing plant are located in Banda, 15.5 miles from Sarh in Southern Chad.
Every year, CST harvests 8,650 acres worth of irrigated sugar cane over a 27,180-acre area.
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION
The sugar manufacturing plant is located in Banda, 15.5 miles from Sahr, in the south-eastern part of the country, near the Central African border. The plant and plantations run alongside the Shari River.
KEY FIGURES
Output capacities
Banda sugar manufacturing plant: 1,700 tons of sugar canes ground daily during a 230-day harvest, i.e. an output capacity of about 40,000 tons of sugar per year.
ACTIVITIES
Core activities
- Irrigated sugar cane crops
- Granulated sugar production (plantation white sugar) and multi-packaging distribution
THE CST SUGAR BRAND
Since 2009, CST has marketed its sugar products under the brand name Princesse Tatie. This mass-produced ready-to-eat sugar is put in packages tailored to consumer needs.
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
Cogeneration
CST already uses bagasse as a source of power, particularly to fuel plant heaters and a number of irrigation pumps. It has been working on further leveraging this natural resource as a source of power so as to bring electric power to its entire irrigation system and export part of it to the Chadian electric grid.
LEGAL INFORMATION
Chadian law corporation set up in 1970 with a capital of CFA10,000,000,000 (EUR15,244,902)
Corporate headquarters : BP 5763 – N’Djamena – Chad