Nestlé has already invested heavily in the Girona plant. © Google
Nestlé will invest €37 million in its Nescafé coffee factory in Girona, northeastern Spain, in a move that will increase capacity by around 20%.
The investment, to be spread across ‘the next few months’, will allow Nestlé to add a third production line for the manufacture of Nescafé instant coffee.
Expected to be operational by October 2018, the line will raise the factory’s overall capacity to 38,000 tonnes. A good part of that will be exported to countries in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
It takes the company’s overall investment in the Girona plant since 2007 to €370 million.
In 2011, Nestlé installed a second production line to double output of Nescafé Dolce Gusto, and between 2015 and 2017 added a further €102 million’s worth of investment to reaffirm the factory’s position as Nestlé’s largest coffee manufacturing site in Europe.
That latter investment was a renovation to an existing coffee line, expected to be fully complete later this year, which will increase production of instant coffee by 30% on its own.
The new facilities, which have been equipped with state-of-the-art technology, are also more environmentally efficient, using 40% less energy and 33% less water per kilogram of final product.
The investment will allow Nestlé to manufacture products with different textures, more aroma and greater creaminess.
The Girona factory annually processes 85,000 tonnes of green coffee – more than 1% of the world’s total coffee production – with a workforce of 750. Most of the coffee produced for Nestlé in Girona is exported to 70 countries worldwide.
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