Tonget Hulett Sugar South Africa operates four sugar mills situated on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast between Durban and Empangeni. These mills operate for approximately thirty six weeks of the year between April and December.

Felixton Mill is situated on the northern KwaZulu-Natal coast, 160 km north of Durban, near the town of Empangeni. The first Felixton Mill, established in 1911 by Sir JL Hulett, was located directly adjacent to the present mill site. That first mill had an initial crushing capacity of 35 tons cane per hour and in its third season produced 12 000 tons of sugar. At about the same time that the Felixton Mill was developed, Mr George Armstrong established the Zululand Sugar Milling Company (known as ZSM) . This mill had a crushing capacity of 15 tons cane per hour. The site of the ZSM mill was about 12 km to the north, adjacent to Empangeni. The Felixton and ZSM mill were expanded to a combined crushing capacity of 395 tons cane per hour by the time of their closure in 1984. Inefficiencies associated with operating two separate mills led to the decision in July 1981 to construct a new sugar mill which would be designed to crush at 600 tons cane per hour and in excess of 3 million tons

Tonget Hulett is an agricultural and agri-processing business which includes integrated components of land management and property development.

Illovo Sugar is a leading, global, low-cost sugar producer and a significant manufacturer of high-value downstream products. The group is Africa’s biggest sugar producer and has extensive agricultural and manufacturing operations in six African countries.

It continues to focus its energies on cane growing, sugar milling and refining at its operations throughout the Southern African region. It has four mills in South Africa, two mills in Mozambique, two in Zimbabwe and extensive cane operations in each of these countries as well as Swaziland. In addition to its raw sugar capability Tonget Hulett Sugar South Africa has a central refinery in South Africa with an annual refining capacity of some 600 000 tons. This refinery is complemented by additional refining capacity in Triangle Sugar.