Wipasz, a Polish feed and poultry meat producer, has recently announced it plans to invest PLN 200 million ($56.1 million) in building a new slaughterhouse in Mi?dzyrzec Podlaski in the Lublin region, as reported by portalspozywczy.pl.
The company expects to launch operations at the new facility starting with June 2019. The new slaughterhouse will also provide 800 jobs at first afterwards the company wants to increase the number of employees to 1,200.
Józef Wi?niewski, chairman of the board at Wipasz, told Portalspozywczy.pl in an interview that the company currently produces nearly 450 tons of poultry meat at its current facility in M?awa and that it hopes to increase its production with the new facility to 900 tons.
According to Mr. Wi?niewski, Wipasz currently exports 55% of its poultry meat production and the new facility is expected to increase the company’s exports.
The company’s main exporting regions are Europe, Asia and Africa.
