areas of business | location 

The Magadi Soda Company (MSC) is Africa's largest soda ash manufacturer and one of Kenya's leading exporters. The company was registered in England in 1911 and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Brunner Mond in 1924.

MSC mines soda ash from naturally occurring deposits of an ore known as trona, located at the base of the Rift Valley, near Lake Magadi in Kenya.

Areas of business
MSC has a capacity of over 0.35mn tonnes of soda ash. About 95 per cent of the product is exported to Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Africa and the Middle East.

MSC also supplies crushed refined soda, obtained by crushing and washing the trona ore. Additionally, the company manufactures salt from the waters of Lake Magadi for the Kenyan market.

Location
MSC is located at Lake Magadi, about 120km from Nairobi.