Olymel and Groupe Robitaille jointly invest $80m in pork and poultry processing facility in Quebec

Olymel LP and Groupe Robitaille have made a joint investment of $80m in a pork and poultry processing facility in Quebec, Canada.

This investment is expected to create 350 new jobs.

The project is expected to be completed in three years.

It will see around 430 employees from Groupe Robitaille’s slaughterhouse join Olymel’s Atrahan facility, which currently has a workforce of 400 employees. When the integration is complete, the slaughterhouse will shut down.

Production volume at the Atrahan facility is expected to double, which will help cater to the Japanese market. The products will be sold under Mugifuji brand in Japan.

Olymel has around 11,000 employees in total, of which 8,000 are in Quebec. Its exports account for one-third of its total sales and sells its products primarily to the US, Japan and Australia.

Groupe Robitaille has around 650 employees in Quebec, and it exports its products to Japan, the US and Mexico.