Chapter 02 · Project Concept

One site. Two pillars.

A PPP between Denzel Logistics Limited (majority shareholder in each operating company) and the Government of Senegal, organised around two complementary ventures on one shared foundation.

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Farm workers harvesting mature cassava and gathering roots into crates
The integrated agro-processing platform

Integrated Agro-Processing

Four facilities on one platform, each answering a proven market, anchored by the most de-risked cassava-to-starch chain in West Africa.

Cassava starch being bagged on the production linea.1
Cassava-to-starch plant30 t/day plant in the Sandiara SEZ, fed by a 500-ha nucleus farm and 2,000+ outgrowers — 9,000 t of food-grade starch a year
Senegal · UEMOA · ECOWAS
Milled rice flowing in the rice milla.2
Rice mill complexMilled, graded, branded white rice, ~100,000–200,000 t/yr paddy intake with parboiling and silos
Domestic
Sardine cans on the canning linea.3
Canned fish factoryMulti-species line, sardinella, tuna, mackerel, with cold storage and sterilisation
Domestic · ECOWAS
Technician in the quality-control laboratorya.4
R&D centreVariety trials, quality laboratories, training, serving every factory on site
Cross-cutting
Shared foundation: power · water · effluent treatment · warehousing · cold chain · port logistics, Denzel Logistics’ core competence.
Engineers walking a modern industrial chemicals plant with tanks and process towers
Industrial chemicals for the African market

Industrial Chemicals for Africa

A continental-scale venture in its own right, sequenced deliberately, entering construction once the anchor industries prove the site.

Membrane electrolysis cells in the chlor-alkali plantb.1
Caustic soda plantMembrane chlor-alkali unit producing caustic soda and co-products
Senegal · ECOWAS · Africa
Aerial view of the integrated industrial complexb.2
Import replacement at continental scaleServing soap, water treatment, food, textiles, and mining industries across the continent
Standalone venture
Engineers reviewing plans on the project siteb.3
Deliberate sequencingMarket study, detailed engineering, and dedicated power advance while Pillar A proves the site
Phase II
Industrial synergy: on-site caustic soda supplies the starch plant’s chemistry and the cannery’s sterilisation lines, while the overwhelming majority serves the external African market.
Design Logic

Why one complex,
not standalone factories

Tractor working neat rows of cassava on a mechanized nucleus farm Technician testing cassava starch in the on-site quality laboratory

Shared infrastructure

Power, water, effluent, cold chain, warehousing, and port logistics are the largest fixed costs of any single plant in West Africa. Pooling them across both pillars turns marginal projects into strong ones, and plays to Denzel Logistics’ core competence.

Industrial synergy

The R&D centre serves every factory, variety trials, milling yields, food-safety certification. On-site caustic soda supplies the starch plant’s chemistry and the cannery’s sterilisation lines. Cassava peels and rice husks become boiler fuel or feed.

Blended market risk

Regional export earners (starch across UEMOA and ECOWAS, canned fish) paired with import replacement (rice and starch domestically, caustic soda continentally). Export lines bring hard currency; import-replacement lines face deep, proven, unserved demand. Neither leg depends on the other.

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