The first of the two production facilities had already gone into operation during late 2013, in Alagoinhas near Salvador de Bahia, following around one year of construction work, just in time for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
The second facility, in Itapisuma near Recife in the state of Pernambuco, is scheduled to start up in mid-2014. This represents massive expansion for the group into the north of Brazil.
Both brewing facilities are identical in construction and dimensioning. Krones AG won the turnkey order for the two breweries. It supplied and installed the entire kit involved, starting with the brewhouse, the cellarage and the filtration system, all the way through to the filling kit, where each facility has a 62,000-bph returnable-glass line and a 128,000-cph canning line, as well as building 18 combined fermentation and storage tanks and 12 bright-beer tanks for each brewery on site.
With the breweries in Alagoinhas and Itapisuma, Petrópolis will in future be operating a total of six breweries in Brazil.
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