Rai family increases dominance in sugar industry with new factory
Duty-free sugar is offloaded at the port of Mombasa from the Comesa region. The Naitiri sugar plant, belonging to Kenya’s Rai family, is set to start operations soon. PHOTO | FILE
A few weeks after Kenya’s Rai family bagged a mega contract to manage part of Mumias Sugar Company’s operations, it is seeking to widen its dominance of the sugar industry business in East Africa by opening a $42.4million sugar plant in Western Kenya before the end of first quarter 2022.
The family is set to start operations of the Naitiri Sugar plant as an extension of West Kenya Sugar Company, with a production capacity of 3,000 tonnes of cane per day.
