[2] During the COVID-19 crisis, in 2020 UNICEF made an agreement with Savonor under which the company reduced its normal profit margin, and with funding from USAID, CERF, the World Bank and UNICEF manufactured "Blue Soap", the same product as its regular basic soap apart from the color, and sold it at half price.

[3] As of 2021 the company had two main divisions: hygiene products and edible oils.

Most of its business was in Burundi, but it also traded in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Tanzania.

[2] Rafina uses cotton seeds from COGERCO to produce cottonseed oil and oilcake.

It had three oil extraction units, a palm oil refinery and several soap manufacturing factories, Savonor used a fleet of trucks to deliver its products to 40 distributions points throughout Burundi.