A shortage of oil refineries across sub-Saharan Africa coupled with soaring crude prices because of the war in Ukraine has left countries dangerously short of fuel supplies, disrupting airlines and ca...
By Staff reporter | Published: 02 June 2022
Local Industries claim they are yet to realise the benefits of the recently introduced interbank foreign currency market, as they continue to struggle accessing hard currency. The interbank market was...
By Staff reporter | Published: 04 October 2019
Kamativi Tailings Company says it will commence civil works at its plant site in Matabeleland North after the company concluded a $9,5 million offtake arrangement with a Swiss-based commodity trader, ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 30 January 2019
ONE of the country's leading cooking oil and soap manufacturers, United Refineries Limited (URL) will resume cooking oil exports to Namibia soon as it forges ahead to grow its foreign currency coffers...
By Staff reporter | Published: 30 December 2018
Zimbabwe should seriously consider establishing a local crude oil refinery as a way of cutting the ballooning fuel bill, according to the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera).Zimbabwe's fuel co...
By Staff reporter | Published: 23 December 2018
DIVERSIFED agro-processor United Refineries Limited (URL) is repositioning itself in the market on the back of growing business as it moves towards initial public offering grade."The latest thinking i...
By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2018
GIANT agro-processor United Refineries Limited (URL) has adopted food fortification as part of its long term business model in keeping with the country's nutrition policy and global trends.Food forti...
By Staff reporter | Published: 28 June 2018
PARLIAMENT has recommended that it would be cheaper to build a new lithium processing plant in Zimbabwe than refurbishing an existing refinery in Kadoma.This follows an offer by a local firm to reconf...
By Staff reporter | Published: 22 June 2018
ONE of the country's leading personal care and value-added agro-products manufacturers, United Refineries Limited (URL) will introduce three new products in the next months.URL chief executive officer...
By Staff reporter | Published: 16 April 2018
BULAWAYO giant cooking oil manufacturer, United Refineries Limited (URL), has added vegetable juice manufacturing to its wider product mix as it diversifies operations.The agro-processing firm is reno...
By Staff reporter | Published: 15 March 2018
UNITED Refineries Limited (URL) has expanded its range as a food and grocery products manufacturer, focusing on servicing local, regional as well as international markets, an official has said.URL chi...
By Staff reporter | Published: 02 October 2017
Platinum mining giant, Zimplats' $134 million SMC Base Metal Refinery (BMR) refurbishments project remains a priority for the group but continued cash flow constrains arising from depressed metal pric...
By Staff reporter | Published: 18 September 2017
GOVERNMENT is yet to locate a site for the construction of a $300 million platinum refinery, set to be established under a joint venture arrangement between an Australian partner and the Zimbabwe Mini...
By Staff reporter | Published: 07 September 2017
UNITED Refineries Ltd, a Bulawayo-based agro processor is set to raise cooking oil output due to improved availability of cotton seed while it intends to resume stock feed production.Managing director...
By Staff reporter | Published: 21 July 2014
Government is keen on resuscitating the Feruka Oil Refinery in the Eastern border city of Mutare, but is incapacitated by the lack of financial resources to undertake the project, Energy and Power Dev...
By Staff reporter | Published: 09 July 2014
Zimplats will start refurbishing its base metals refinery at a cost of $100 million in July after completing a preliminary plant assessment.Addressing delegates during a tour of Zimplats' operations o...
By Staff reporter | Published: 02 June 2014
ZIMPLATS could soon begin partially processing its matte at the Selous-based base metal refinery once refurbishment is completed.Impala Platinum, which owns 87 percent shareholding in the country's la...
By BH24 | Published: 26 May 2014
Zimbabwe is considering a platinum refinery construction proposal by South Africa-based Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats), businessdaily has learnt.Mines minister Walter Chidhakwa yesterday said he m...
By Staff reporter | Published: 25 March 2014
GRINDROD Trading has acquired a 51 percent stake in Bulawayo-based fast moving consumer goods manufacturer United Refineries Ltd, managing director Mr Busisa Moyo said. "We have just concluded the tra...
By Staff reporter | Published: 04 March 2014
Government will soon announce the winning bidder for the establishment of a platinum refinery in the country, Mines and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa has said. The plant will see ...
By Staff reporter | Published: 21 February 2014
The Zimbabwean government says it has shortlisted two companies for the establishment of a platinum refinery in the country. According to a report by local news agency, the two companies were sho...
By Staff reporter | Published: 14 February 2014
Mwana Africa Plc, a producer of nickel, gold and diamonds, plans to reopen a smelter in northeastern Zimbabwe to refine platinum-group metals in a move that could ease pressure to build a new refiner...
By Bloomberg | Published: 14 February 2014
Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa, his deputy Dr S Undenge and the Acting RBZ Governor DR CL Dhliwayo today 11 February toured Fidelity Printers and refineries, the largest s...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 February 2014
SUGAR processor Starafrica corporation says it will resume sugar refining operations in Harare in May this year after the commissioning of its Gold Star Sugar Harare plant.In a statement, the firm sai...
By Staff reporter | Published: 23 January 2014
Major platinum miners in Zimbabwe have met a government deadline to agree and submit plans to build a major refinery in the country by the end of 2016, state media reported on Sunday.President Robert ...
By Reuters | Published: 20 January 2014
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