New line for Mexican feed mill
The extrusion process will increase the competitiveness of the facility by improving the performance, cost, and benefits of the feed, as well as its conversion ratio. The new infrastructure will also strengthen the company’s capacity to serve the markets of Puebla, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Chiapas, and the Yucatán Peninsula, while increasing the feed production capacity of the facility by 5,000 tonnes a year.
This new addition is part of a $16 million investment plan to position the company’s animal nutrition solutions in the aquaculture markets of Mexico and Central America.
Gerardo Quintero, Managing Director of Cargill’s Feed & Nutrition business for Mexico and Central America, stated: “This new investment endorses our confidence in Puebla, a State that has promoted the social and economic development, in which we have had the privilege of operate throughout 49 years.”
Cargill’s facility in Tehuacán started operations in 1966 and currently employs 112 people. Nationwide, Cargill Mexico, which began its operations in 1965, employs over 1,700 people.
