Alföldi Tej Ltd. (producer of dairy products) is creating almost 200 new jobs in Debrecen, since they are planning to build their new processing plant in the city.Tibor Mélykuti CEO of Alföldi Tej Ltd. announced in Budapest at a press conference that the company is going to build their new processing plant in the city of Debrecen. The investment will be covered by 12 billion HuF and it means that there will be 181 new open jobs in the city.
This huge investment in Debrecen will increase the company’s turnover by about 10 billion HuF and most of the dairy products will be exported to China.
According to Péter Szijjártó Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations, Hungarian government will support the investment of Alföldi Tej Ltd. with 4.8 billion HuF. He also said that the government had managed to come to an agreement with China; Chinese experts had already done an audit at Alföldi Tej Ltd. and the export of dairy products will start soon.
Alföldi Tej Ltd. buys 320 million litres of milk a year and it makes Alföldi Tej Ltd. the biggest milk collector company in the country.
According to the plans, Alföldi Tej Ltd. will produce 8500 tons of cheese and 7000 tons of milk powder in Debrecen each year. Building the new processing plant of the company in Debrecen is the one of the greatest investments in Hungarian dairy industry in the last few decades.
Source: www.debreceninap.hu
