Brazilian meat and dairy group Perdigão has announced plans to close two of its operating plants starting this week with the loss of 233 jobs.
The company said today (7 January) that its Rio Casca and Ivoti operations are being closed in a bid to “optimise” the operations of the company’s nine other plants, located in five Brazilian states.
Starting this week, part of Rio Casca’s processing operations will be transferred to the company’s Sabará plant, which will produce fluid milk, aromatised milk and cream.
The production of cheese and cheese spread will be outsourced to other companies in the state of Minas Gerais.
The reallocation of the company’s Ivoti processing operations to other plants in the state of Rio Grande do Sul will take place starting 31 January. Production will be directed to its Teutônia plant, which already produces UHT milk.
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By GlobalDataIvoti’s C-type pasteurized milk production will be transferred to the São Lourenço do Sul and Santas Rosa plants.
The rationalisation will result in 163 job losses at the Rio Casca plant and 70 at the company’s Ivoti plant.
“This rationalisation will result in cost reductions without, however, diminishing production volumes,” the company said in a statement. “Perdigão’s dairy products division decided to discontinue production at the Rio Casca and Ivoti units due to the small scale of their operations, their outdated technology and their proximity to other production units.”
Perdigão said it does not envisage any further reallocation of production.
