01About
A purpose-led, African company.
Founded in KwaZulu-Natal. Operating from the Dube Trade Free Zone. The only African-centred manufacturer of vitamin and micronutrient blends on the continent.
02Our story
The network began in 2010. The company followed in 2018.
Millhouse International grew out of a decade of work on the hardest fortification problem on the continent: keeping vitamin A alive in sugar. The blend that solved it, refined across several African mills, became the first product; the mills became the first clients; the regulators became colleagues.
Today we manufacture blends to each country's own standard for eleven countries, and the lab in Dubai engineers bespoke blends for brands across the Gulf, Europe, Asia and Africa. Our African base is not branding. It is logistics, regulatory fluency and the ability to drive to a partner mill in Malawi rather than ship from Europe and wait.
2010
the network with African governments begins
2018
Millhouse International is founded
11
countries served
16
SADC member states within reach of the plant
03Two rooms, one company
The mill gives the lab its credibility. The lab gives the mill its edge.
The plant, Dube TradePort
Where Millhouse is visible at scale: the four staple fortifications, each produced to the recipe a country's law demands, from Egypt's wheat to Malawi's maize. ISO 22000, HACCP and FSSC 22000 certified, audited by SGS, in a free zone built for efficient production and trade. 29°36'S 31°07'E.
The lab, Dubai
Where the formulation depth lives: energy and cognition blends, premixes for drinks and powders, droplet and micro-encapsulation systems, functional crumbs. A hub for the Gulf, Europe, Asia and Africa. 25°06'N 55°24'E.
04The founder
André Redinger
André grew up on his family's sugar farm in KwaZulu-Natal. A childhood within the Zulu community planted a lifelong commitment to agricultural innovation and to the upliftment of the communities around a farm, a conviction that has since become a company.
He advocates vertically integrated supply chains that keep nutritional value, access and affordability together, and keep the margin on the continent to fund the programmes the company carries: the Lodestar Centre of Excellence and foundations that align with our purpose.
“Fuel knowledge. Fortify foods. Feed programmes.”
05Our values
We call it NOURISH.
Seven principles, one way of operating. Every blend we mix, every plant we install and every partnership we begin is held against this measure.
- NNerveAddressing challenges with courage and confidence.
- OOutstanding qualityExcellence across people, processes, partners and products.
- UUnderstandingRespecting cultural, political and regulatory nuance, country by country.
- RRelationshipsAuthentic, service-oriented partnerships.
- IImpactPursuing nutritional liberation.
- SServiceClients, communities and the continent first.
- HHonourCommitments kept; principled action.
06The work
Where our blends already run.
- 2019 · Malawi
Illovo Sugar MalawiA turnkey premix plant
Millhouse installed a turnkey premix plant at Illovo's cost, so that Illovo could manufacture its own premix for several mills: a vertically integrated supply chain that keeps the capability, and the margin, in the country.
- August 2020 · Zimbabwe
Tongaat Hulett30 tonnes of vitamin-enriched porridge
With Tongaat Hulett, Millhouse distributed 30 tonnes of vitamin-enriched porridge to hospitals and schools in Zimbabwe, a delivery attended by the country's First Lady.
07Six advantages
Why a mill chooses an African manufacturer.
- Trade incentives
- The plant operates from the Dube Trade Free Zone, built for efficient production and cost-effective trade.
- Continental reach
- Production in South Africa, so we supply and support clients throughout the continent, in person and in the same time zone.
- Local advantage
- The only African-centred manufacturer of vitamin and micronutrient blends: closer access, faster turnaround, better value.
- Regulatory fluency
- We know the food regulations of every country we serve, and we keep our clients within them.
- Turnkey service
- Blend, equipment, verification and training from one supplier, so a mill meets its regulation with confidence.
- Process digitisation
- Fortification levels monitored and measured digitally: correct dosing, adherence, easy reporting, lower cost.
Produced locally, supported in person.
Tell us about your mill, your refinery or your programme. We answer in the same time zone.