Tate & Lyle Sugars is to build a sugar refinery in Oman to serve markets in the Middle East and eastern Africa.

The company, part of American Sugar Refining, is working with local firm Oman Sugar on a refinery in the Port of Sohar in the country.

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Construction will start in the third quarter of this year. The plant is expected to be complete in the second half of 2015. Tate & Lyle Sugars said the two sides want the refinery to have a capacity of one million tonnes a year.

Sugar will be made for the retail and industrial sectors in the region. Oman, Middle East, East Africa will be the “principle target markets”, Tate & Lyle Sugars said.

The company declined to reveal how much it is investing in the project.

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