Cargill Mexico has inaugurated the $7.8 million dollar expansion of its animal feed facility in Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico, as part of the celebrations for its 150th global anniversary and 50 years of operations in Mexico.
The expansion consists of a new extrusion line that will produce feed for tilapia, trout and catfish. The company says that 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, allowing Cargill to increase the quality of the product it delivers to its client.
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 monthly animal feed production capacity of the facility by 5,000 tons.
This new addition to Cargill’s productive infrastructure in Mexico 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, said, “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.”
Marcelo Martins, president of Cargill Mexico, said that the company will continue to work hand to hand with authorities and producers, offering finance, risk management solutions, reliability in the purchase of crops and products, new international markets for the nation’s yields and products, as well as high quality and performance nutrition solutions, to help the Mexican agribusiness sector thrive for the next 50 years.
