Voermol - Maximising the Return on Your Investment

Voermol is a subsidiary of Tongaat Hulett Sugar, which is a division of Tongaat Hulett. In fact, Voermol was established as a direct result of the Group’s considerable sugar interests. The ‘mol’ in ‘Voermol’ is an abbreviation of molasses; a nutritive and highly palatable by-product of the sugar manufacturing process. Another sugar by-product utilized by Voermol in its livestock feeds is bagasse; the soft core of the sugar cane plant. Voermol Feeds became the first company in Africa and possibly the world, to successfully commercialise a combination of molasses and bagasse, thus converting molasses from a difficult to handle product into one which could be conveniently fed alone or mixed into other feeds. Molasses is not only a good source of energy, with vitamin B and trace minerals, but it is also a good binder and very palatable, thereby reducing dustiness of the feed and resulting in livestock being more likely to get a balanced intake, as they are less likely to feed selectively.