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JBS launches meat plant in Russia 03 Feb 2010
Inalca JBS, the joint venture of JBS and the Italian food group Gruppo Cremonini have built a new factory in the Moscow region.
The new complex covers an area of 25,000 m2 on three floors giving a total covered surface area of 26,000 m2, will provide employment for about 400 people and required an investment of 100 million Euro, completely self-financed. The payback period of the project is 10 years. In addition to the new factory, Inalca is also planning to build a slaughterhouse in the Russian Orenburg region.
The factory is the result of Inalca's presence of over twenty years in Russia through its "MARR Russia" subsidiary.
Luigi Cremonini, founder of Inalca and Chairman of the Cremonini Group stated, “We are today prominent figures in Russia on both fronts: on the one hand, laying the basis for completing the production chain of the cattle sector, through the new factory inaugurated today, and the start-up of a further investment for the construction of a slaughtering facility in the Orenburg region.”
The new factory will create approximately 400 jobs. It is assumed that the capacity of the new plant at the initial stage will amount to 25,000 tonnes a year, while in the future it may reach 50,000 tonnes per year. Storage capacity is more than 13,000 tonnes.
The distribution platformpermits the strengthening and concentration of existing Inalca product distribution such as:
• food service for hotels, restaurants and catering chains, with over 1,500 items of the best products of the Italian, Russian and international food traditions, 1,300 customers and a fleet of 50 refrigerated trucks;
• the sale of food products to traditional retail outlets and super market chains
• the sale of meat to the principal transformation industries.
The new hamburger production department is equipped with the most advanced technologies available on the market. The production process, completely automated, has a capacity of 80,000 hamburgers per hour, corresponding to 25,000 tonnes per annum, easily increasable to 50,000 tonnes. The plant will mainly serve the McDonald's restaurants in the Russian Federation.
Launching of production will allow Inalca to increase its profits in Russia by approximately 40-50 million Euros per year. According to preliminary estimates, the total annual turnover of Inalca in Russia will amount to 180 million Euros compared to 140 million Euros in 2009.
By Evgen Vorotnikov
The new plant, which will produce semi-finished meat products, was launched in the presence Elena Borisovna Skrynnik, the Russian Minister of Agriculture, and Luca Zaia, the Italian Minister for Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies.
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