SPAIN: Nestlé announces 100 million euros investment in Spanish coffee production plant | Progresiv
Nestlé has announced a 102 million euros investment in a coffee production facility in Spain, which is set to become the company’s largest inside Europe. The investment will pay for the replacement of a production line at the Nescafé factory in Girona, 50 miles northeast of Barcelona. The new line will take up 10,000 square feet of the existing 200,000 square-foot site, making it the Swiss producer’s largest in Europe and third largest in the world by the end of 2017. 
The announcement follows a 44 million euros investment last year, which brought the total amount invested in the site to 236 million euros.
The capacity of the plant will increase from 21,000 tons to 30,000 tons every year, producing instant coffee for export to the European and Middle Eastern markets. The expansion will lead to between 30 and 40 additional jobs, Spanish newspaper El País reported.
Nestlé technical director Miquel Serra said: “The production of the new plant will go abroad. Today, Girona exports 74% of what it produces to more than 70 countries. With the new facility, we enter new countries in Europe and probably the Middle East.” (www.foodbev.com)
