{"id":254688,"date":"2019-08-15T15:19:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=254688"},"modified":"2019-08-15T16:19:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T19:19:31","slug":"brf-to-reopen-plant-that-supplies-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brf-to-reopen-plant-that-supplies-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"BRF to reopen plant that supplies the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brf-global.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Food industry conglomerate BRF<\/a>\u00a0said last week that it will resume activities at its Carambe\u00ed, Paran\u00e1 plant early next September. The facility used to ship about 6,500 tons of poultry products to Saudi Arabia each month, before the Saudi government stripped off its imports from Brazil, <em>Arabian Business<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the facility\u2019s output is sold to Middle East markets. The plant was shut down late last May amid actions to match supply and demand.<\/p>\n<p>BRF has already begun hatching eggs in Carambe\u00ed \u2013 the first step in the breeding process. Last week saw the shipping of the first batches of chicks. Twenty-four producers are getting about 1 million chicks between them. The birds will reach the adequate weight for slaughter in 28 days.<\/p>\n<p>Industrial activity in Carambe\u00ed will start on September 2 as two production lines become active. A third and final line will start operating in October. \u201cThis period was important in order to normalize inventories and optimize supply management to ensure balance in our productive system,\u201d BRF\u2019s regional director for Paran\u00e1, Rubens Modena, was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of brands Sadia and Perdig\u00e3o, BRF is one of the biggest food companies in the world. Q2 2019 saw it post BRL 191 million (USD 48 million) in profit. The result came from domestic and foreign revenue, combined with a more robust performance in operations and sales.<\/p>\n<p>Last January, the company announced plans of getting poultry sales to Saudi Arabia back to previous levels \u2013 one of its plants had been stripped off its certification to sell to the Kingdom. <em>Arabian Business<\/em> reported that BRF is in talks to produce chicken in the Arab country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-254664\">Press Release\/BRF<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unit in Carambe\u00ed, Paran\u00e1 will resume activities in early September. It used to ship some 6,500 tons of poultry items to Saudi Arabia each month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":254664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[10091,10622,10624,9907,2063,9895,9557,9595],"class_list":{"0":"post-254688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agribusiness","8":"tag-brf-en","9":"tag-carambei-en","10":"tag-carambei-ar","11":"tag-chicken-en","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-parana-en","14":"tag-poultry-en","15":"tag-saudi-arabia-en"},"wps_subtitle":"The unit in Carambe\u00ed, Paran\u00e1 will resume activities in early September. It used to ship some 6,500 tons of poultry items to Saudi Arabia each month. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}