SASOL has held discussions with various entities in Africa outside of
SA on the long-term potential for a chemicals plant, the group’s
executive, vice-president for chemicals Fleetwood Grobler, said on
Thursday.
The chemicals and energy group has production facilities
in SA, Mozambique and North America. It is investing $8.9bn in the
state of Louisiana in an ethane cracker and processing plant that will
treble its US chemicals capacity.
Mr Grobler said in its last
financial year Africa, the Middle East and India contributed just under a
third of the R105bn turnover of Sasol’s chemicals business. The
short-to medium-term focus in Africa was on improving the performance of
agents and distributors and selecting the best locations for a sales
office.
