Serpa: Opened Mill Valley, an investment 9 million.
The Mill Valley, recently opened in municipality of Serpa, It is an entrepreneurial project in the Alentejo, which will surely boost the economy of the region and moved initially, an investment of about 9 million.
The MILL VALLEY opened in Baixo Alentejo, will allow you to create wealth in the Serpa region, in various industries, and identified as a factor for change in the olive oil industry.
Pedro Marques and Enrique Perez Gonzalez are the project faces to associate with the industrial activity to agriculture, determinant for local development.
The sector of agriculture has played in Alentejo, and specifically in the Municipality of Serpa, a significant increase in investment, with great emphasis on the olive grove area.
This increase is in the very infrastructure of Alqueva, which has allowed the conversion and installation of new irrigated olive groves that allow to obtain far more advantageous productions for producers.
The growing experience in the region, the exponential increase in investment of olive producers, hand-skilled labor, the conditions of location and accessibility were important factors that influenced the decision making of the MILL VALLEY partners to proceed with the proposed investment in the region.
The main objectives of the project MILL VALLEY undergo answer 3 fundamental vectors:
- Market - the oil industry has had a great growth and, the current and future structure of the group, fits into all expansion logic
- Scale - the creation of a production unit with size allows to have economies of scale in terms of common services and the reduction of costs of providing the service extraction of olive ton
- Opportunity – the possibility to control the extraction process and thus adapt the final products obtained in accordance with the needs and goals of its clients
Its implementation will allow a development in the municipality which will result in:
- Creation of new jobs (directly and indirectly)
- Value creation for companies County – greater movement of suppliers and customers in the region will contribute to the creation of jobs resulting from the increase of overnight stays, increase in the number of meals served, increase supplies at gas stations
- Increase of the resident population – the demand for own and permanent housing for new industrial workers and work stations generated indirectly begin to emerge, increasing the resident population and, consequently, the renewal of generations in the county.
HISTORY OF THE MILL
The installation of the mill began in 2017, having started this year from working (in campaign 2017-2018).
It was an experimental program which served mainly to test the machinery, operationalize and optimize all working operations of Vale do Lagar.
Despite being a test campaign, with interventions in the equipment and adjustments in operations, the installed capacity enabled respond to requests, either the quality point of view, or the quantity, with a rapid transformation preserving all olive features as fundamental and indispensable in this process.
Some figures for the campaign 2018/2019:
- Processing capacity: 60.000 your. olives per year
- Storage capacity: 4.000.000 kg oil
- Daily capacity of Transformation: 1.200.000 olive kg
- Campaign 2018 / 2019 (estimate): (aprox.)000.000 olive kg
