Almarai launches 2 new plants for poultry, baked goods in Hail

The plant inauguration

Almarai Co. announced today, March 1, the inauguration of two new plants for poultry and baked goods in Hail province. It also launched a giant solar energy station to serve both plants.

The poultry plant, Almarai’s third of its kind, will add 50 million birds to Almarai's total production capacity, to reach 250 million annually.

Meanwhile, the bakery plant is currently operating with a production capacity of 413 million pieces of packaged goods annually. It joins Almarai’s bakery plants in Al-Kharj and Jeddah in producing 1.8 billion pieces of baked goods annually through the two brands Lusine and 7Days.

The solar energy station in Hail produces 22 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity annually. It will contribute, along with the other station that the company established in Al-Kharj a few years ago, to remove 33,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually, according to Almarai.

Almarai now owns 14 plants for the production of foodstuff, including eight plants in Saudi Arabia, and six others in the UAE, Egypt and Jordan.