Africa-Press – Angola. The tomato processing factory, built in 2016, in the town of Giraul de Baixo, municipality of Moçâmedes (Namíbe), with a capacity of 45 tons, starts operating next October, on an experimental basis.
The information was provided this Friday by the general secretary of the SONEP Group, the industrial company in charge of managing this manufacturing unit, Edilson Tchibia, having highlighted that the factory will produce three tons per hour, in an investment of 600 million kwanzas.
Speaking to the press, he said that, at this stage, the factory will have 60 employees, 52 of whom are Angolan and eight are Cuban and Italian technicians.
He clarified that the operation includes two moments, the first being for the processing of tomatoes, supported by 19 small tomato producers who will supply the manufacturing unit, and the second in the investment of processing fruits, such as pineapple, passion fruit, mango, orange and guava pulp and preserved fruit syrups.
In 2025, when the factory will reach the peak of its production, more jobs are expected to be created, going from 60 to 80.
Next to the same manufacturing unit, a plot of land measuring one and a half hectares was delivered, destined for the production of tomatoes and other plots of land measuring one thousand hectares in the town of Tchamilunga, commune of Curoca, municipality of Tômbwa, for the large-scale production of main raw material.
The agro-industrial complex consists of a tomato paste factory and a cold store, with three cold rooms designed for preserving fruit and vegetables and another for 480 tons of fish.
The factory built in 2026 aimed to transform fresh tomatoes for the production of preserved sieved tomatoes.
The infrastructure includes equipment for receiving, washing and selecting tomatoes, crushing, separating and “concentrating, storing, treating and distributing water, as well as a water storage tank and an indoor distribution network, among other means.
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