Our General Director, Joaquín Garrido, and our Financial Director, Mercedes Pombo, briefly explains the details of the latest project that Oviganic is developing with the support of the Xunta de Galicia, through the Doing Business Galicia Office.
This ambitious project will allow to reach a processing volume of 40 tons, quadrupling the current production capacity of our Monforte de Lemos plant. This increase will imply new hiring, as well as an opportunity for growth, both for our company and for the area.
To achieve our goal we have the support of the Doing Business Galicia Office, dependent on the Xunta de Galicia, whose purpose is to facilitate the implementation of business initiatives in the Galician autonomous community.
The Conselleiro de Medio Rural, José González, signs a collaboration protocol with our general manager, Joaquín Garrido. In this way the Xunta de Galicia and Oviganic Ibérica S.L. are committed to promote the sector and increase the number of Galician sheep and goat farms, as well as to ensure agri-food industrialization projects in the community.
The Regional Minister of Rural Environment, José González, together with the general manager of Oviganic Ibérica S.L., Joaquín Garrido. Joaquín Garrido
The agreement represents a firm commitment with the transformation of the Galician agri-food sector, betting to promote the added value of the products of the community.
The Conselleiro emphasized that this type of cattle ranches allow to put in value lands of scarce agronomic value by their characteristics of slope, stoniness, accessibility or difficulty of mechanization. In addition, they are the most difficult to manage in the event of forest fires. In this way, support for this type of production encourages economic activity, promotes competitiveness and the integral development of rural areas, and at the same time facilitates territorial reorganization and advances in the anticipation of fire prevention.
On the other hand, both Xunta de Galicia and Oviganic Ibérica S.L. are committed to ensure the viability of projects that complete the transformation and give added value to the products from Galician farms. The aim is, therefore, to promote a complete transformation carried out in the community, in a stable manner and favoring short marketing channels, thus improving, on the one hand, the local economy, and on the other hand, reducing the carbon footprint linked to any industrial process.
In addition, a joint commitment is established to disseminate this type of livestock farming among neighboring mountain communities, forestry promotion societies and among dairy production and processing companies.
This is another step taken by Oviganic Ibérica S.L. to promote and support entrepreneurship and the economy in Galicia. And it is already 35 years, developing in Monforte de Lemos -in an innovative and exclusive way- programs of industrialization and commercialization of dairy products of cattle, sheep and goats.
In this line, we are immersed in the expansion of our plant for the production of final products of high specialization and added value, such as whole and skimmed milk powder, demineralized whey powder, butter and other raw materials for industrial products.
Our parent company, the Chinese group Yeeper Dairy, will invest 16 million in the expansion of our plant in Monforte. The project is supported by the Xunta de Galicia, and will generate around fifty new jobs.
The Regional Ministers of Economy and Rural Environment, during a recent visit to the facilities.
We are very excited to announce that, after the last meeting of the Consello da Xunta, it has been agreed to declare the modernization project of our plant in Monforte as a priority business initiative. This means that all the related procedures that fall under the competence of the Xunta will have a preferential character. Consequently, the administrative deadlines will be reduced by half, while all the technical and regulatory requirements will be maintained.
The project will involve the elimination of economic and environmental costs by completing in the same territory the supply lines of raw materials and the elaboration of products, and will imply important energy savings in the production, packaging, transport and commercialization processes.
Xunta de Galicia
Already at the end of 2019, during the visit of the Ministries of Economy and Rural Environment to our facilities, it was announced the interest of Yeeper Dairy in developing a second production line, aimed at the production of products with goat and sheep milk. However, the estimated details regarding investment and job had been kept on the sidelines.
This expansion will allow us to put into operation a new line for the production of powdered milk for high-end baby food, and to install a plant for the production of butter oil from sheep’s, goat’s and cow’s milk. A basic preparation for the production of other food products.
In this way we expand our production possibilities, being able to adapt even more to the particular needs of our customers.
Likewise, the project implies the elimination of both economic and environmental costs, by completing in the same territory the supply lines of raw material and product elaboration, which translates into energy savings in the production, packaging, transport and commercialization processes. Shortly, a step forward in terms of respect for the environment and nature conservation.
In addition, we hope that this expansion will serve as a dynamizing action for sectors in our environment, such as cattle, sheep and goat farms.
We are also excited to expand our workforce, contributing to the economic progress of the region.
The Xunta has already confirmed that, through the ministry of Rural Environment, Oviganic will receive an aid of three million euros, framed within the lines of financing projects of improvement for the transformation and commercialization of the agrarian products.
The Regional Minister of Economy, Employment and Industry, Mr. Francisco Conde López and the Regional Minister of Rural Environment, Mr. José González Vázquez, visited the Oviganic plant in the Industrial Park El Reboredo, in Monforte de Lemos.
Once at the factory, they had the opportunity to talk with the founder and head of Oviganic’s parent company, Yeeper Dairy, Mr. Mu Shambo. During the visit the ministries chatted cordially with the general manager of Oviganic, Joaquín Garrido.
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