The Company

Duly incorporated in 1995 and currently with an authorized share capital base of N 4 billion naira, Honeywell Flour Mills Plc continues to possess quality leadership in the Nigerian milling industry with total focus on complete satisfaction of our customers. Read More

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Quality Policy

The company is committed to the continuous achievement of Business success by maintaining its quality leadership in the flour milling industry.

This is driven by a quality management system designed to ensure that customers shall always be provided with the quality products and services that they expect and which meet with the Internal Standards set for the purpose.

Such standards are in full compliance with all statutory and regulatory requirements and is set out in writing for adherence by all staff at all times.

Production Facilities

Milling and Process Technology
The flour milling process is basically the separation of the endosperm from the germ and the bran layers of the wheat grain. Using the gradual reduction process ensures that the endosperm (flour and semolina) is carefully separated through several sub-processes of repeated grinding, scalping, sifting, grading and purification. This is achieved only after a thorough dry cleaning and conditioning of the wheat grains.High quality hard wheat is sourced from the main wheat growing countries of the world. However, the Hard Red Winter Wheat (HRW No. 2 variety) from the USA forms the bulk of HFM PLC’s milling wheats.

Wheat vessels with capacity of up to 30,000 metric tonnes of wheat are discharged with the company’s VIGAN bulk ship unloder and conveyed by overhead belts through the Tin-Can Island Port premises directly into our 52,000 metric tonnes grain silos for binning. The proximity of the wheat intake process to the production factory minimises freight and handling costs .
At Honeywell Flour Mills Plc, the latest state-of-the-art technology in grain processing using plant and machineries from world renowned engineering suppliers and flour enhancing and fortification ingredients is deployed. The flour milling plants were designed, manufactured, installed and commissioned by BUHLER AG, Uzwil, Switzerland – who is the acclaimed world leader in milling process engineering. Its processes and systems conform to international standards and are ISO 9001:2000 certified.

Honeywell Superfine flour and Honeywell Brown flour are bagged in 50kg woven polypropylene sacks using high speed carousel packers. Honeywell Semolina comes in 1, 2, 5 and 10kg pack-sizes. The 1 and 2kg sizes are packed using high speed ROVEMA vertical form-fill and seal packers.

HFM PLC's Production Facilities
Honeywell Flour Mills has a multi-billion Naira modern factory located at Tin-can Island Port, Apapa, Lagos, equipped with state-of-the-art machinery for wheat discharge/storage, milling, quality control and warehousing.

In the absence of a reliable public power system, the Company has to generate its own power. Today, it has 2 operating power supply systems of 4 and 5 megawatts capacity respectively , using diesel as an alternative source of fuel. It has recently completed a third power supply system which runs on gas with a total installed capacity of 12 megawatts. With the gas power plant as an alternative, production bottlenecks caused by shortages in diesel supply and associated quality problems will be minimized.

The Company also expects to make substantial cost savings in the use of gas to generate our power, and these savings have been incorporated in the profit forecast.

Expansion of Production Capacity
Demand for Honeywell Superfine Flour has continued to grow exponentially, as evidenced by its turnover figures. In a bid to cater to its increasing clientele, it has consistently upgraded its production facilities. Production commenced in 1998 following the construction and installation of a 200-metric tonnes wheat mill at the Tin Can Island site. Following the successful commissioning of the mill, the sale of “Honeywell Superfine Flour” commenced on July13, 1998.

In 1999, the company embarked on a remodeling project to increase the milling capacity to 360 tonnes per day. In November 2001, installed production capacity was increased to 610 metric tonnes per day. In August 2005, the Company took a giant leap with the installation of two mills capable of producing 500 metric tones a day respectively. This addition brought the total installed capacity of the company to 1,610 metric tonnes per day further strengthening its position as a key player in the flour milling industry in Nigeria.