Aurora increases investment in SC

The Santa Catarina Coopercentral Aurora, third largest processor of poultry and swine in the country, reported yesterday that it will invest R $ 61.5 million to reopen and triple the capacity of the refrigerator of pigs of Joaçaba, in the West of the State of Santa Catarina.
The amount is higher than the r $ 40 million announced by the company in February last year. Now, instead of duplicating the capability, the Aurora is intended to increase the capacity of the refrigerator a thousand pigs for 3 thousand a day. the initial plan envisaged increasing that capacity to 2.2 million animals.
According to the statement released by Aurora, refrigerator of Joaçaba will operate from January 2014. The unit is primarily responsible to meet the demand for pork exports.
At the end of last year, the company announced the three-year-lease for the amount of r $ 425 thousand per month – industrial unit of slaughter and processing of poultry in the bankruptcy of Chapecó food Industrial company, Xaxim, in the West of Santa Catarina.
The ex-arrendatário, the refrigerator diplomat, disbanded the unit last November. The company, which is controlled by Congressman Alfredo Kaefer (PSDB), is in the process of reorganization and has debts estimated around $ 600 million.
The prediction of the Aurora is to make the unit of Xaxim, also in Santa Catarina, working again in the first half of the year. To do so will have to review equipment and resume the partnership with producers who controlled 600 800 aviaries and reach a capacity of 238 000 birds per day.