There is only one company in the Congo with large scale capacity for milling. That is Minoterie du Congo (MINOCO) with its main milling plant in the port area of Pointe-Noire. It is owned by the American company Seaboard Overseas and Trading Group, a multinational company employing 22,000 persons with an annual turnover of nearly US$ 4 billion. Its core businesses include grain and agricultural products.

At present they are producing fortified flours for the Congolese commercial market but they can also process maize meal at the Nkayi plant which also have blending capacity.

For more information on milling company contact details, please see the following link: 4.6 Republic of the Congo Storage and Milling Companies Contact List.

Milling Company MINOTERIE DU CONGO

The Minoterie du Congo (MINOCO) was established in 2000 through a privatization effort administered by the Government of the Republic of Congo. Seaboard Overseas through its affiliated partners placed a successful bid on the assets of the former state enterprise known as MAB. The assets consisted of a modern 250MT/24hr flour mill on the port in the city of Pointe Noire which was originally commissioned in 1992. MINOCO currently also owns a functioning flour mill in the city of Nkayi that can also have the capacity to mill maize. The Nkayi facility has a capacity of 15MT/24h and silos with storage capacity of 80MT. Seaboard Corp recommissioned the Pointe Noire mill in 2001.  Per the privatization agreement, MINOCO undertook an expansion of the Pointe-Noire mill under Seaboard’s direction in 2003 bringing the facility to its current capacity of 400MT/24hr. Both milling units in Pointe Noire were supplied by Italian manufacturer OCRIM. The purchase and set up of a new BUHLER milling unit that will allow to increase the production to 700MT/24h by the end of the year 2017. MINOCO has access to the national railroad through the rail connection present in the port which is located just 2km from the plant.