Cargill has inaugurated a processing plant in Nicaragua that will have the capacity to sacrifice up to 14,000 birds per hour, and it required a $45 million investment.
Friday, April 13, 2018
The new plant, where cuts of whole chicken will be automated, will provide greater capacity for freezing and in line packaging.
Regarding the new plant, the president of Cargill Proteína Latinoamerica, Xavier Vargas, explained to Elnuevodiario.com that "... 'This investment allows us to apply to be certified to export, for which there is a requirement to have a national system of sanitary surveillance and strengthened safety measures with our commercial partners.'"
The article reports that "... In the last three years, Cargill's investments in Nicaragua have amounted to more than US $100 million.With this investment, the company is generating almost 3,000 direct and 18,000 indirect jobs."
Cargill is preparing to start-up in April this year a new chicken meat processing plant, located on the road to Masaya.
Although the plant will not operate at full capacity initially, it will have a total capacity to slaughter 13,500 birds per hour for two eight-hour shifts each day, six days per week.
With a $5 million investment a farm to fatten up chickens was inaugurated in León, and it is expected to produce about 3 million chickens a year.
The mixed capital poultry company (Nicaraguan and American) is called Castillo Poultry LLC and is located in the municipality of La Paz Centro, in León.
Cargill has inaugurated a new cold storage and distribution plant southeast of Managua, with capacity to store up to 8 million pounds of chicken meat.
In addition to the new plant, in which $50 million were kkinvested, Cargill announced plans to invest $100 million over the next three years in three new projects, including a plant for shrimp food, in which it plans to invest $12 million.
Cargill has started construction of a processing plant and refrigerated warehouses which in ten years could be producing 400,000 birds per day.
From a statement issued by Cargill Meats Central America:
Cargill de Nicaragua SA today announced a major new investment in Nicaragua to continue contributing to the development of this country and has as its aim to continue guaranteeing the supply of chicken, using international standards and standards of quality and safety, for all Nicaraguans.
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