Africa-Press – Angola. The Água da Chela Factory, in the municipality of Humpata, Huíla province, increased the production of mineral water to 2.850 thousand liters/month, against 920 thousand in 2021, in bottles of 0.5 and 1.5.
The administrator of the Água da Chela factory, Karim Ussene, informed that the increase in production capacity results from the rehabilitation and modernization of the enterprise since 2017, by the current management company “DUBENGO”, after a long period of stoppage of the factory unit.
The other factor, according to the source, has to do with the growing demand outside the province of Huíla, as a result of the new commercial and marketing strategy that the company has adopted, expanding its market to the provinces of Namibe, Cunene, Benguela and Luanda.
According to the official, in all, “DUBENGO” invested 1 billion kwanzas and part of the rehabilitation of the factory was financed by Banco KEVE, at the end of 2022.
He detailed that the process of rehabilitation and modernization of the facilities brought a new image of the Chela brand, the bottle and the label were redesigned with a more modern and current image, with more fluid lines, but keeping the water quality unchanged.
The investment, according to the businessman, forced the factory to go from one to three daily shifts, the third being recently opened, meaning that in 2023 alone they had increased the factory’s staff by 33 percent, making 120 employees.
Fábrica de Bottling da Água da Chela, founded in 1998, began production at the beginning of this century, becoming the first mineral water factory in Angola.
Mineral water is extracted from a natural spring that springs from the Chela aquifer, hypersaline water, captured at two thousand meters of altitude and 70 meters of depth, in a geological formation of sandstone and quartzite with more than 500 million years and the final product It is bottled in 0.5 and 1.5 liter bottles.
The complex also has a complete laboratory that performs quality control at all times, through physical-chemical and bacteriological analyzes every hour.
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