{"id":386455,"date":"2025-04-22T12:44:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=386455"},"modified":"2025-04-22T12:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:44:49","slug":"brf-to-have-new-plant-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brf-to-have-new-plant-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"BRF to have new plant in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazil\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/imprensa.brf-global.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BRF<\/a> announced on Monday (21) that it will open its third unit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 2026. The development will see USD 160 million in investment from BRF Arabia, a BRF joint venture with the Halal Products Development Company (HPDC). BRF will retain a 70% stake in the business, and the remaining 30% will be held by HPDC, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund (PIF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRF said the plant\u2019s annual capacity will be 40,000 tons, and as much as 80,000 tons if the demand is in place. The facility will process poultry and beef using raw material sourced from Brazil. The Jeddah plant will initially serve the Saudi market but may also export to countries in the region. This will be the company\u2019s seventh unit in the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A press release quoted BRF and Marfrig controlling shareholder and board chairman Marcos Molina as saying the investment \u201cstrengthens\u201d BRF\u2019s operations in a \u201chighly strategic\u201d market for the company. HPDC CEO Fahad Alnuhait said the new plant is a \u201cmajor step forward\u201d in the company\u2019s strategy to build \u201cintegrated halal manufacturing ecosystems.\u201d Halal products are those made in compliance with the rules of Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe plant will not only meet growing domestic demand for further processed products but also reduce the Kingdom\u2019s reliance on imported goods by offering high-quality, locally manufactured alternatives,\u201d said Alnuhait. The plant is expected to generate 500 direct jobs. Roughly USD 63 million in investments will be disbursed this year, with the balance coming next year. BRF already owns plants and distribution centers in other Arab countries across the Gulf, including the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazils-brf-buys-26-of-saudi-arabias-addoha\/\">Brazil\u2019s BRF buys 26% of Saudi Arabia\u2019s Addoha<br><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-386456\">Supplied<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unit will be located in the city of Jeddah, with a food processing capacity of 40,000 tons per year. Operations are slated to begin in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":386456,"comment_status":"closed","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":[9534,10014,44206,38944,9557,9595],"class_list":{"0":"post-386455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agribusiness","8":"tag-brazil-en","9":"tag-investment-en","10":"tag-jeddah-en-2","11":"tag-pif-en-2","12":"tag-poultry-en","13":"tag-saudi-arabia-en"},"wps_subtitle":"The unit will be located in the city of Jeddah, with a food processing capacity of 40,000 tons per year. Operations are slated to begin in 2026.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386455","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=386455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}