D D Ruhinda & Company Limited was established in 1990. Originally the Company started as a trading house, buying and selling the local sisal fibre produce. However, to sustain itself, the Company decided to acquire Mkumbara Sisal Estate in 1997 during the privatization of farms and industries.
The Estate has become one of the best in Tanzania hence voted by the Government as the Best Sisal Estate of year 2011/2012.
At the time of acquisition only 50 hectares were under sisal but by 2016 over 1,400 hectares have been planted with sisal.
The Company is also establishing a subsidiary unit known as Tanga Sisal Spinning Mill which is producing sisal yarn and sisal twine.
D D Ruhinda and Company Limited 