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European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe invests in Skretting Spain

OPERATION: TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT IN PRODUCTION 2021/2022

SUB-MEASURE 4.2: SUPPORT FOR INVESTMENTS IN PROCESSING/MARKETING AND/OR DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS

AMOUNT OF AID GRANTED: €93,692.92

Skretting España, S.A., plans new investments in its warehouse located in Carretera de la Estación s/n. CP: 09260. Cojóbar, Modúbar (Burgos)

This investment will be executed with the aim of implementing environmentally sustainable processes in the feed mill through energy saving, global energy efficiency, and the use of renewable energies.

This project represents a fundamental technological, ecological and sustainability breakthrough for the animal feed manufacturing and supply plant of SKRETTING ESPAÑA, S.A., a leading animal nutrition company, which aims to achieve the following objectives:

  • Generation of an important technological advance that will further position the company with respect to other companies in the sector: acquiring the most advanced technology and state-of-the-art machinery, through which the most innovative techniques in the sector will be applied, offering a product of the highest quality and excellent acceptance. A benchmark in quality feed production technology, to develop innovations that achieve optimal nutritional value, sustainable production and tailor-made economic performance, significantly reducing your environmental footprint.
  • Optimization of the production process and food traceability: higher production process performance and plant efficiency.
  • Improvement in quality: it will be possible to achieve a higher quality of the products offered so far.
  • Support for the use of energy efficiency and renewable energies: It is planned to recover the heat from the air, which comes from a dryer, by means of a battery, producing hot water, and to implement energy management equipment and software with the aim of controlling and reducing CO2. Likewise, investment will be made in photovoltaic installation for self-consumption.
  • Consolidation and strengthening of the company's R+D structure.
  • Compliance with the most demanding quality regulations.
  • Maintenance and expansion of its incorporation into new commercial distribution models: expanding new commercial channels and market niches not yet reached. At the same time, with the updating of different equipment and the incorporation of a new automaton, it will be able to increase the speed of its communications between the plant and the rest of the company and have exhaustive control of its manufacture, obtaining greater flexibility of action by offering a better service to its customers.