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21 October 2014, 11:07

ARVI Group completing project to upgrade processing plant in Lida District

GRODNO, 21 October (BelTA) – The Lithuanian ARVI group of companies is completing the project to upgrade the animal by-product processing plant in Lida District, BelTA learned from the Lida District Executive Committee.

The large-scale project in the village of Dorzhi, Lida District, is nearing completion. The opening ceremony for the ARVI-BIOVAST plant is scheduled for 23 October. It is expected that the event will be attended by senior executives of ARVI Group, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Lithuania Alexander Korol and Adviser to the Prime Minister of Lithuania Antanas Vinkus.

The project provides for the upgrade of the Lida animal by-product processing plant, and the construction of the new building of the plant. The plant will be kitted out with new technologies to process animal by-products. The plant will produce bone tankage and technical fat. It is expected that the plant will produce 25,000 tonnes of animal by-products per year, which is almost 10 times more that it was in the past. The plant will recycle the animal waste from all over Grodno Oblast.

According to the Belarusian Embassy in Lithuania, the investment in the project amounted to €11.4 million. The next phase of the project will be to establish the processing of special waste (blood, fish waste).

ARVI group of companies is implementing another big project in Lida District: the construction of a turkey production complex. The project provides for the construction of five turkey farms up to 500,000 birds per year, a feed mill and a turkey meat processing factory. This plant will produce 6,000 tonnes of finished products per year.

ARVI is a business group of enterprises engaged in the production of fertilizers, animal feed, sugar, meat processing, disposal of animal waste and freight forwarding, and also hotel business. It brings together 22 enterprises in Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Romania, Ukraine, and Croatia.

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