United Refineries Limited

United Refineries Limited – URL is one of Zimbabwe’s (big four) largest cooking oil refineries after Surface Wilmar Private Limited with a refining capacity of 12,000 mt per year from soybean seed and a combined 9,450 mt per year for laundry and bath soaps and a further 30,000 mt per year for stock feeds.

The company currently employs 263 full-time employees along with seasonal labor, depending on the level of production activity averaging 100 people each month. It is one of the few manufacturing companies that remains operational at significant capacity utilization levels in the country’s Southern Region.

In addition to branded product lines, URL also produces soya meal and soya bean cake which are ideal for poultry and pig production, and soya bean hull(which is high in fiber and ideal for cattle, chicks, and mushroom growing). These are by-products of the cooking oil manufacturing processes. The annual production of these by-products is 30,000 tonnes.