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The factory located in Frutal, in the state of Minas Gerais, will receive funding to expand the production of beverages by Cervejaria Imperial
In a meeting with Governor Romeu Zema, Cervejaria Imperial formalized the expansion of production in the state of Minas Gerais, announcing that it will make an investment of R$ 200 million by 2023, in its factory located in the city of Frutal, in the Triângulo Mineiro region. With such a contribution to be made, the company should more than double the production capacity of the beverage at the factory. Also read this news: Mercedes-Benz, leader in the manufacture of commercial vehicles, has 100 internship vacancies open for Minas Gerais and São Paulo
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Investments for the expansion of the factory, in Minas Gerais
In this way, the company, which in 2019 invested BRL 250 million in the Frutal factory, will double its beverage production capacity, reaching 9 million hectoliters per year. According to data from the General Register of Employed and Unemployed People (Caged), the factory of Cervejaria Imperial de Frutal generated 1.394 new jobs in 2021.
For now, the company is in the final phase of the budget for the new works in the city and, therefore, has not yet disclosed how many jobs will be generated in the new undertaking. The company should more than double the drink's production capacity at the Frutal factory, reaching 9 million hectoliters per year and reaching R$ 1,2 billion in investments in Minas.
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Also in Minas Gerais, works at the Heineken factory were embargoed
Last week, the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio) embargoed the area where the Heineken brewery factory in Pedro Leopoldo, in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, in Minas Gerais, would operate. The undertaking, which intends to produce 760 million liters a year, would cause damage to the area where the most affected human fossil in the Americas, known as “Luzia”, was found.
The threat of burying the complex of grottoes and caverns where the oldest skeleton in South America was found —the Luzia skull— led the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation) to paralyze work on a Heineken brewery factory in Pedro Leopoldo, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte. The agency of the Ministry of the Environment also sent an official letter to the government of Minas Gerais, which had already granted the preliminary license for construction, and imposed two fines on the company, which add up to R$ 83.
The construction of the factory was even used by Governor Romeu Zema (Novo) as a political banner. When he announced the agreement with the brewery, the politician posted a video on social networks extolling the attraction of an investment of R$ 1,8 billion for the State. One of Zema's secretaries highlighted the "dynamic nature" of the government in convincing Heineken to build a factory in Pedro Leopoldo, 40 kilometers from Belo Horizonte, in Minas Gerais.
The unit will be the first Heineken fully built in Brazil
This unit is the first fully built Heineken factory in Brazil, all the other 15 production units belonging to the multinational in the country were acquired during the purchase of Brasil Kirin in 2017, which in turn owned the breweries that were once owned by Schincariol. Six months after the official announcement of the installation of a Heineken factory in the state, the company is waiting for the issuance of licenses by the Secretary of State for the Environment and Sustainable Development of Minas Gerais.
In May, it was reported that the Heineken brewery had already acquired land from the Development Bank of Minas Gerais (BDMG), would have bought an area from Precon Engenharia, and was negotiating others around it. At the time, the company did not comment on the matter, but the report had access to documents and information that indicate that the construction will be in the vicinity of where the enterprise would be. A source related to the negotiations, who asked not to be identified, detailed that the installation of the brewery's factory will take place in a junction of four lands.
