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| December 10, 1998 LeFiell Company Completes Construction of State-of-the-Art Multi-Species Slaughter Plant in Bucaramanga, Colombia On Wednesday, November 18, 1998 the Frigosan Company of Bucaramanga, Colombia started production in the newest multi-species animal slaughtering and fabrication plant. This plant has the capacity of slaughtering 600 cattle, 1000 pigs, and-or 500 sheep per day. The plant has the capacity to bone 100 carcasses and is also equipped with its own LeFiell rendering system. Dr. Enrique Muñoz, the principal owner and CEO of Frigosan contracted with the LeFiell Company of Reno, Nevada USA, to design and supply the equipment for this project. LeFiell supplied all the equipment for slaughter, rendering, edible by-products, and beef fabrication, as well as internationally recongnized trainers to start the plant. The LeFiell trainers have also been instrumental in working with the new management in training their staff in GMPs and SSOPs, similar to what is a required in USDA plants, with the idea that eventually they will set up a voluntary HACCP program suited to their unique market conditions. This plant will slaughter mostly Brahma type cattle ranging in live weight from 400kg to 900kg. The average slaughter yield is 58 percent, which is about 3 percent higher than the old municipal plant was able to achieve. The pig line has the capability to slaughter pigs as heavy as 400kg, again with an increase in slaughter yield--they are able to get this improvement on the slaughter lines by the efficient use of equipment supplied by LeFiell. This facility is one of the first plants in Colombia where the carcasses will be chilled to a temperature of 5 degrees centigrade deep muscle within a 16 hour period. With the fabrication department, Frigosan will supply vacuum packaged meats to local and Bogota supermarkets. This new Frigosan plant was built to replace the old municipal plant that had been
existence for almost 50 years. The Frigosan plant was constructed with private
funding, giving Dr. Muñoz and his associates the freedom to work unrestricted with
LeFiell to achieve the most modern plant in Colombia. |