Security issues close sugar refiner in Syria

Mohamad Najib Assaf, chairman of Syria's National Sugar Co, a privately-owned refiner with a capacity of one million tonnes a year, has said the firm has stopped production because of the poor security situation in the country, Reuters has reported. The two other sugar refineries in the country, one state-owned and the other privately owned, were also suffering because of the unrest, he said. "Of course we have been greatly affected. We have stopped production now at the refinery due to the events," Assaf said. "We stopped operations nearly two months ago," he said.

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