#Food Industry
Cherkizovo Poultry Complex, Russia
Russian meat producer Cherkizovo Group is developing a new poultry complex in Elets city, in the Lipetsk region of Russia
The complex will include a cluster of poultry production and processing facilities.
Construction of the facility has started in June 2011 and is expected to be completed after about two years.
The poultry complex is estimated to cost RUB19.5bn ($685m). Of this, 80% is being funded by Gazprombank under a ten year loan agreement. When completed, the complex will be the largest agro-industrial building in Russia.
The large-scale project will boost agriculture development in the Russian Central Federal district. It is expected to contribute significantly towards the Russian government's plans to attain self-sufficiency in food supply. It is also expected to attract major industrial investments and significantly contribute to the economic and social development of Elets and surrounding regions.
The investment is part of Cherkizovo's plan to expand its poultry meat and pork production in the Lipetsk region over the next eight years.
Site of the new poultry complex
"When completed, the complex will be the largest agro-industrial building in Russia."
The poultry complex is being built adjacent to an existing pork facility of Cherkizovo in the Eletsprom special regional-level economic zone. The site was chosen due to its proximity to the other production facilities of Cherkizovo.
It is also accessible to the major markets of Central Russia and Moscow. The site also has scope to expand the infrastructure to increase capacity in future.
The project received support from the Ministry of Agriculture and the government of Russia. The Lipetsk regional administration allocated land and assisted in the development of the required infrastructure.
Capacity at the poultry facility
The Eletsprom site will have production capacity of about 200,000t of poultry a year. At full capacity, the complex will increase the live-weight poultry capacity of the Cherkizovo Group to about 500,000t and the saleable product output to 420,000t. The incubation eggs production will also be raised to 315 million per annum.
Construction of Cherkizovo Group's complex
The ceremonial foundation stone for the poultry complex was laid on 29 June 2011. The ceremony was attended by Cherkizovo's CEO, Sergey Mikhailov, Cherkizovo Group Chairman, Igor Babaev and the Head of the Lipetsk regional administration, Oleg Korolev. The complex is expected to begin production in 2013 and reach its full capacity by the end of 2015.
The project is expected to generate employment for about 4,000 people.
Cherkizovo future projects
The integrated poultry complex will include construction of several production and processing facilities. The poultry breeding projects at the complex will include a 160 million per annum capacity incubation eggs facility, four parent stock and breeding flock sites capable of handling 900,000 birds and five sites with poultry facilities for ten million broilers.
"The poultry complex is being built adjacent to an existing pork facility."
The complex will also include a slaughtering house and processing facility with a capacity of 24,000 chickens an hour. Purification and multifunctional treatment facilities, and a waste processing and a treatment complex will also be built within the complex.
The feed production facilities will include a fodder complex with a capacity to mill 90t an hour. The feed complex will have storage facilities and an oil processing complex. The storage capacity of the feed complex will be about 300,000t.
Other facilities will include storage and warehouses, a logistics facility with storage capacity of 50,000t of frozen products, offices, housing complexes and associated infrastructure and engineering facilities.
Poultry complex design
The facilities at the complex are designed with the latest technological processes to follow the existing European Union (EU) norms for poultry production. The construction and operations of the complex are planned to meet the latest health, safety and environmental standards.
The integrated complex will have efficient standards and allow competitive production. Cherkizovo aims to get international certification for the complex for consistent production to access the export market in the future.
