Since TECHSERVE CC was established in Durban in 1970, they have had full technical responsibility for a large number of projects in the Cane Sugar Industry in Africa and in other parts of the world including the following CANE SUGAR REFINING AND RAW SUGAR STORAGE projects.

The refinery projects generally included reception and weighing of raw sugar, affination, melting, melt clarification by various methods, i.e. melt phosphitation (MP), flue gas melt or kiln gas carbonatation (MC), sulphitation (S),and activated carbon (AC), or a combination of some of these processes;  filtration;  mud de-sweetening;  fine liquor concentration; filtration;  refined sugar boiling;  centrifuging;  sugar drying, screening, blending, weighing, bagging and/or packaging and storage.

• Project Managers for the 1973 extension of the Refinery capacity at SUCOMA Malawi.  Melt Phosphitation and Activated Carbon (MP & AC) process.
  
  
• Main Contractor for the 1976 construction of a 20 t/h Refinery at Hippo Valley, Zimbabwe.  Melt Carbonatation and Sulphitation (MC&S) process.
  
  
• Process Engineering Consultant to Edward L Bateman & Co Ltd, Main Contractor for the construction of the 10 t/h MC & S Refinery at Dwangwa Sugar Factory, Malawi.
  
  
• Process Advisor for 70 t/h MC&S Refinery to Principal consultant, Arkel Engineering, USA, for the Kenana Sugar Factory, Sudan.
  
  
• Study for the modernisation of a Melt lime-kiln gas Carbonatation and Bone Char Autonomous Refinery in Iran.
  
  
• Main Contractor for the mechanical equipment for 50 000 ton and 20 000 ton Bulk Sugar Stores at Mlaula and Big Bend, Swaziland.
  
  
• Study for the conversion of a Beet Sugar Factory at Kiryat Gat, Israel, to an Autonomous Cane MC&S Sugar Refinery.
  
  
• Main Contractor for the mechanical equipment for a 50 000 ton Bulk Sugar Store at Simunye, Swaziland.
  
  
• Main Contractor for the 1984 rehabilitation of the Maputo Bulk Sugar Terminal.
  
  
• Main Contractor for the 1990 extension to 15 t/h of the MC&S Refinery capacity at Ubombo Ranches Sugar Factory, Swaziland.
  
  
• Main Contractor for the design and 1991 supply of the 6 t/h MC&S Refinery at Britannia Sugar Estate, Mauritius.
  
  
  
• Study for the conversion of a Beet Sugar Factory at Carsama, Turkey, to an Autonomous MC&S Cane Sugar Refinery.
  
• Main Contractor for the 1992 extension of and conversion to the Melt Phosphitation and Sulphitation process of the 20 t/h Refinery at SUCOMA, Malawi.
  
  
• Main Contractor of the 1994/5 rehabilitation of the Maputo Bulk Sugar Terminal.
  
  
• Study for the conversion of an existing facility in St Petersburg, Russia, for the bulk storage of 30 000 tons and packing of refined sugar.
  
  
• Study for the installation of 30 000/50 000 ton capacity facilities for the bulk storage of refined sugar in Aquaba, Cotonou and Port Said.
  
  
• Main Contractor for the 35 t/h Refined Sugar Dryer/Cooler and rehabilitation of the refined sugar handling system at Illovo Sugar's Pongola Sugar Factory.
  

Techserve are currently contracted to Sucrerie Bourbon Tây Ninh Ltd to provide them with detailed Engineering and Project Management for the 8 000 tons sugar per day Cane Sugar Factory, with Refinery incorporating Melt Carbonatation and Ion Exchange processes, now under construction in Vietnam.

The Senior Technical Personnel of Techserve were personally involved in the following Sugar Refinery projects prior to joining the Corporation :

• The  20 t/h Refinery at Reynolds Bros. Sezela Factory, the first "back-end" MC&S Refinery in Africa. 
  
  
• The 1000 t/day Affination station at HULSAR comprising raw sugar mingler and twelve 48" x 24" centrifugals.  
  
  
• The 1000 t/day raw sugar melt station at HULSAR.
  
  
• Extensions to the MP & AC Refinery at Illovo Sugar Factory.
  
  
• The Lime Kiln and the Carbonatation and Sulphitation Stations at C G Smith's Pongola Refinery.
  
  
• Refined Sugar Dryers at Sezela, Natal Estates (2), Gledhow, Pongola, Ubombo Ranches and Malelane.
  
  
• The MP&AC Refinery at SUCOMA, Malawi.
  
  
• Raw Sugar Melters at Natal Estates, Gledhow, Empangeni and Pongola.
  
  
• MC & S Refinery at Maragra Sugar Factory, Mozambique.
  
  
• MC & S Refinery at Mafambisse Sugar Factory, Mozambique.