View of modern tilapia processing plant set up in Palotina, Paraná. (Photo: Marel)

Marel equips country’s largest fish processing facility

C.Vale has opened the largest and most modern fish processing facility in Brazil, supplied with processing equipment and systems from Marel.

The new factory is just over 10,000 m² and has an initial processing capacity of 75,000 tilapia per day. It is located in C.Vale’s industrial park in Palotina, western Parana, where the cooperative also has a poultry facility.

According to the president of C.Vale, Alfredo Lang, the plant will be the largest in Brazil and the most modern in Latin America.

“Once we’re processing 75,000 tilapia per day, our next goal will be to reach 300,000 per day. We have a consolidated customer base who are waiting for our fish products both in the domestic and foreign market,” the entrepreneur says.

The long-time partnership between Marel and C.Vale, mainly in the areas of poultry and further processing, was influential in the development of this new project.

“In Brazil, C.Vale and Marel have shared a story together for more than two decades. C.Vale was one of the first cooperatives to install a Nuova evisceration line from Marel and they continue to rely on Marel solutions for their business. This new project is not just a watershed in the fish industry in Brazil, it also reiterates and strengthens the partnership between the companies,” says Francisco Leandro, General Manager of Marel in Brazil.

It has always been important to C.Vale that the processing facility would allow for future development and expansion. In addition to the new processing technologies, the project employs an exciting new intensive fish farming model and the future gains in production scale are expected to be extraordinary.

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