McCain Foods to invest in production in Belgium

McCain Foods is to add a french fry production line at a factory in Belgium.

The Canada-based food group will install the line at its site in the town of Leuze-en-Hainaut in the west of the country. Local reports say the line will be operational in early 2018.

A McCain spokesperson confirmed the plans today (3 February) when contacted by just-food but declined to comment further. The spokesperson said McCain would be making a formal announcement on 14 February about the investment.

McCain acquired the Leuze-en-Hainaut site in 2013 when it bought potato products supplier Lutosa from PinguinLutosa – now renamed Greenyard Foods – in 2013.

In 2015, McCain announced the Leuze-en-Hainaut site would take on the production from a site 150km further north in Grobbendonk it had decided to close.

“Belgium remains a very strategic country for us,” the McCain spokesperson said today.

Earlier this week, McCain announced plans to cut jobs at a site in the UK.

Dean Best

An experienced editor, Dean has reported on the international food and beverage industries for 19 years. He became editor of Just Food in 2007 and Just Drinks in 2022.