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Cargill's investment aims to expand factory production by 70%
Cargill is a multinational private American company whose activity is the production and processing of food. The company recently announced that plans to invest BRL 50 million by the end of 2024 to expand production by 70% from its factory in Porto Ferreira, in the interior of São Paulo. The unit has been producing chocolates for the industry, food service and artisan market since 2007.
With the expansion of its production, Cargill will be able to meet the growing demand of the industrial sector and promote a greater participation of the company in the chocolate market. According to the Valor newspaper, the American multinational did not disclose the current or future production capacity of the factory or its market share.
The plant purchased from Nestlé is the only one in South America that produces ready-to-use chocolate
Cargill is also a producer of Liza oil, Pomarola tomato sauce and Elephant extract, and has factories spread across Brazil for the production of ten food lines. However, the Porto Ferreira factory, which was bought from Nestlé in 2005, is the only one in South America that produces ready-to-use chocolate and chocolate toppings in various food processes.
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Cargill's chocolate factory operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, even though it does not sell directly to the final consumer and does not plan to enter that market. All this work is necessary to meet the growing demand from industries and the craft sector, which has risen sharply since October due to Easter.
New partnerships and investments are also made in cocoa production
New areas will be built at Cargill's São Paulo factory to almost double its production capacity. In addition, there will be the purchase of domestic and imported equipment and the hiring of new employees to join the total of 150 that the unit currently has.
“We are not going to change machinery, but are going to add new machines and create new lines”, says food engineer Ludmila Roseira, leader of the chocolate and coating categories at Cargill.
In addition to the investment in the factory, Cargill also made a unprecedented partnership with Climate Foodtech Belterra, which involves cocoa production in agroforestry systems (AFS) in the Amazon region of Mato Grosso. The project starts next week and R$ 33 million will be invested to implement, initially, 1 hectares of crops with 1 million cocoa trees and forest species.
