A'Saffa Foods, Oman's largest fully integrated poultry and biggest snack food producer, revealed that its OR45 million ($116.8 million) strategic expansion project, which aims to raise chicken meat production capacity by 100 per cent at their farm-site in Thumrait, is on track, said a report.
The project will be completed in two phases — with each phase contributing 50 per cent to the new capacity, Engineer Mohammed Suhail Al Shanfari, chief executive officer of A’Saffa Foods, was quoted as saying in a Times of Oman report.
He added that the company’s poultry processing complex expansion includes the setting up of 90 new broiler houses (Big Dutchman, Germany) and Hatchery Equipment (Chick Master, US) in phase 1 of the project.
Al Shanfari said that in phase 2 of the transformation, a new Processing Plant (Marel Stork, Netherlands), Feed Mill (Van Aarsen, Netherlands), Electricity OHL would also be added.
He added that the strategic expansion and upgradation will help the company to process 12,000 birds per hour, helping the company achieve greater efficiency and output.
Al Shanfari further noted that once operational, the facility will increase its annual slaughtering capacity to 44 million birds, bringing the company's capacity to produce 160 tonnes per day; thereby expanding annual poultry meat production to 42,000 metric tonnes.
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