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Benetton to invest in Comodoro Rivadavia abattoir and tannery

10/08/2004

The Italian textile group Benetton has announced that the company is to invest $15 million in a sheep abattoir and a skin tannery in Patagonia where they own almost a million hectares of land, in Comodoro Rivadavia.

Carlo Benetton one of the owners of the group travelled from Italy for the official presentation of the project that has received the full support of city and provincial authorities.

 

From next year the Benetton textile plants in Italy will receive 700,000 sheep skins from the tannery.

 

Mr. Benetton also announced the group’s plans to process 5,000 tons of lamb and mutton per year which will be merchandised world wide under the trade name of Estancia Monte Aymond.

 

“This means creating 250 direct jobs and an additional 150 indirect jobs, plus the construction of a 15,000 square metre depot in the industrial free zone in Comodoro Rivadavia’s port compound,” said Mr. Benetton.

 

The abattoir will have an hourly processing capacity of 300 sheep and an annual capacity of 400,000. The whole project should be fully operational for the 2006/07 season.

 

 “This is one of the most ambitious projects regarding investment and job creation we have undertaken in Argentina”, said Mr. Benetton who stated that the group’s investment in the country totals over $80 million.

 



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