JBS will begin to erect new plant in Paraguay

An eye on Paraguay's beef herd expansion, JBS plans to put into operation in September 2016 the third fridge in the country, the first to be built from scratch by the company in South America, with a capacity to shoot down 1.2 thousand animals per day. The project was announced last year and the works should begin in the first half of August.
The new unit will be in Belén, Concepción Department, said yesterday the President of JBS Mercosur Division, which includes cattle operations in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, Miguel Gularte. The two plants in operation in the country, in Asuncion and in San Antonio, they can pick off, added, 1.5 thousand head per day but come from operating a pace of 1.3 thousand.
The investment will be $ 100 million, and JBS studies be used only its own resources or local credit lines. The company negotiates the acquisition of cattle producers and want to start then the hiring of employees for training in refrigerators in operation. Will be 800 employees.
Second Gularte, 85% of Paraguayan beef production is exported, and the total shipments in the country jumped from $ 65 million in 2005 to $ 1.2 billion in 2014, but the company estimates that the internal market is also "attractive" for the local livestock sum 14 million oxen and the number of medium and large refrigerators no more than 12.
In Brazil, the scarcity of cattle did JBS suspend the operations of four refrigerators in May and June, with three in Mato Grosso and one in Roraima, but there are no plans for new charts, Gularte said. "Are temporary outages," said, without needing when units should resume operations.
According to him, major importers of meat from Brazil like Russia, Venezuela, Hong Kong and Europe faced "turbulence" in the first half, but exports began to recover in mid-June. "Russia has returned the import and the opening of China has already begun to have repercussions". For the internal market, provides stability and Gularte prices in the second half, even though the high exports reduce "a little" the offer. "May have may have a high temporary seasonal in some products, but not constant motion".
Gularte said that JBS maintains investments in Argentina despite the restrictions on exports imposed by the local government and has a "significant" contributions program in the country in 2015. According to him, over the past two to three years the company concentrated on the operations of the four plants in the country only in the Rosary, which slaughter 1.8 thousand cattle a day and at the end of the year should reach 2.2 thousand, equivalent to the previous production volume of four refrigerators.