Animal Feed & Animal Nutrition News
Cargill acquires feed mill in Indonesia

// 10 oct 2008

Cargill Animal Nutrition Indonesia has finalized a purchase agreement with PT Berlian Unggas Sakti to buy its animal feed mill in Medan, Indonesia.

Cargill Animal Nutrition will acquire the feed mill located in Tanjung Morawa, Medan. The capacity of the mill is 160,000 metric tones per annum. Cargill has already committed to invest in a new extruder at the facility to cater to the floating fish feed market in Sumatera Island.

Cargill has approximately 250 employees in Indonesia and has been in the Indonesia market for over 30 years.

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