Carbery opens new facility in Brazil

Carbery Group, headquartered in Ballineen, West Cork, has officially opened Nutrifont in Brazil, a whey processing joint venture between the Irish company and BRF, one of South America’s leading food companies.

The new 70,500 sq ft facility, located at Tres do Maio in the Southern State of Rio Grande do Sul, incorporates a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant that will produce added value nutritional ingredients that will be supplied to the sports nutrition, infant formula and bakery sectors. The joint venture will deploy Carbery’s innovative ingredients technology to process whey generated in two cheese-making facilities in the region.

It is another example of Carbery Group’s increasing internationalization, and complements the company’s Synergy Flavours facility in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, giving the group a strong foothold in this rapidly expanding food market.