Resources
Press and commentary.
Articles, interviews and commentary on Millhouse International and the case for fortifying the staple.
01In the press
Articles and interviews.
- Smartfill · 9 April 2024
Innovation for nutrition: Millhouse pioneers a Smartfill solution to combat malnutrition in schoolsWith DYDX and Smartfill
An automated, self-dispensing dosing unit for the ENDGAME fortified nutrition mix, installed at Julukandoda Primary School in Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal, with the design consultancy DYDX and the dispensing start-up Smartfill. A free-standing unit built to be rolled out across Africa, with each dose recorded.
Read it in the Internet Archive
Smartfill's own page returned a server error on 3 October 2026; the archived copy from 4 August 2024 is linked instead.
- KZN Invest Magazine · 16 August 2022
Vitamin boosts Dube's businessFeaturing André Redinger
A profile of the plant at the Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone: South Africa's only micronutrient premix manufacturer, exporting 95 per cent of its vitamin A sugar premix to the SADC countries, as the magazine reported in August 2022.
“The only way out is for farmers to add value to their produce.”
- Food for Afrika · 10 March 2022
Fortification of staple foods can be game-changer for AfricaFeaturing André Redinger, founder of Millhouse International
Why fortifying staple foods with vitamins and minerals is the most cost-effective intervention against malnutrition and its effect on cognitive development. Food poverty, worsened by inflation and supply shocks, is a cycle that fortified maize, wheat and oil can break.
“Ensuring that what we consume is safe and sufficiently fortified can only lead to positive outputs mentally and in other crucial areas of daily life.”
- Food for Mzansi · 31 January 2022
Malnutrition in Africa: eradicating nutrient deficienciesBy André Redinger
The operational case for combining fortification, training and analytical laboratory capacity against nutrient deficiency across the continent. The article cites 27 per cent of South African children as stunted by chronic nutritional deprivation.
“Fortifying foodstuff such as maize, sugar and flour is an excellent way to ensure that the population is healthier.”
- BioAnalyt · 30 July 2019
Partner spotlight: meet André Redinger, CEO of the Millhouse GroupPartner profile
From a sugar farm in KwaZulu-Natal to mills across Southern Africa: a portrait of André Redinger's path from industrial psychology to fortification programmes, school nutrition and the Southern Lodestar Foundation, alongside Millhouse.
“Africa abounds with entrepreneurship, ideas, and opportunities that we haven't even touched on.”
02On request
Datasheets, certificates, audits.
The documents behind the claims are sent on request: the standard a blend meets, the dose range, a certificate of analysis from a recent batch and the SGS audit report. Tell us the staple and the country.