New Production Site: General Rodriguez
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Following our commitment to supply a complete range of safe products for safe food, Vetanco starts the building of the 3rd separate premise for production and logistics of feed additives.
With the support of National authorities, from the Buenos Aires Province and the Department of General Rodríguez, was started the construction of this site of 30,000 sqmt sized up to supply those markets that demand quality, traceability and independent facilities for different product’s range.
After a building period of 12 months the premises will produce 1000 tons/month and store the 4000 positions of 1.8 m3 each we evaluate we will move and trade in 5 years of our organic additives portfolio.
This will enable us to supply the increasing national and international demand, and release productive areas in our Villa Martelli building that today working double shifts per day, is fortunately at full capacity.
The major of General Rodriguez Department signs the mentioned deeds with the presence of our project leaders responsible for the moving and building project. Eduardo Ponsi, Pablo Milan, and Lautaro Hunziker with the architect Hernán Saravia asume this commitment.
Vetanco is an international company with head office located in Buenos Aires, Argentina that 23 years ago started the development, manufacture, and distribution of innovative products for animal health and production. In more than 40 countries Vetanco supplies products internationally tested, controlled and safe for the agrifood safety and productivity enhancement.
As an international referent in additives and specialities for the agribusiness, the Vetanco product portfolio is wide and diversified. All products are characterized for the quality controls and the efficacy trials that continuously our worldwide distributors do. For these reasons when it comes to select an alternative, more customers evaluate positively the cost benefit of using our products. This has lead to such an increase in the demand and production of our organic additives that if we wouldn’t have started with the building of this new premises our production and logistic capacity would be saturated by 2012.
Dimensioning, construction engineering and economic calculations took large part of 2009 and 2010. The challenge was to find the equilibrium between next 10 year’s demand, adequate technology and required logistics. That’s how our SC team found the geographic area that optimized product and input volumes related to origin and destination at the lowest cost per transported ton.
The initial investment of 4 million u$s in the first year is already allocated as well as the contractors of equipments, services and facilities required. All are be pharma quality, to achieve after the international audits, the aptitude required by the most demanding markets.
| Range | today mt/month | Forecasted mt/month |
| Premix Pharma | 140 | 300 |
| Feed Additives | 170 | 400 |
| Pesticides | 110 | 200 |
| Warehousing | 2000 | 4000 |
In this first stage we’ll reach a total production capacity of 700 tons/month of additives. On a second future stage we’ll focus in a plant for parasiticides that can accomplish EPA regulations which we understand is a lack of the regional vet industry. As the total surface of the site is 35,000 sqm we will be able to separate and isolate the area dedicated to this.
More and more every day the quality of our products is evaluated by the whole value chain, including the consumer that finds at the supermarket shelve several brands of the same product. And chooses the one that guarantees him quality and safety to his table. That brand always belongs to our customer: the agrifood world leading companies.
