TIRET October 2012 Issue - MIDROC Ethiopia

ELFORA Inaugurates Metehara Export Abattoir
H.E. Ato Wondirad Mandefro, State Minister of Agriculture (left), Sheikh Abdella
Hussein Ali Al-Amoudi and CEO Dr. Arega Yirdaw at the inauguration
The ELFORA Agro Industries
Plc has upgraded the
Metehara Export Abattoir
with an investment of Birr 15
million. The abattoir now has new
machinery, pens for 4,000 cattle
and 10,000 shoats, two slaughtering
lines fitted with air conditioners,
freezers and other facilities.
A member of MIDROC Ethiopia
Technology Group, ELFORA was
established in 1997 by acquiring
eight enterprises from the
government. It focuses on poultry
farming, crop production and meat
processing businesses.
Metehara Abattoir, which lies on
50,000sqm plot, 200kms east of
Addis Ababa, was acquired in 2007.
It is one of three abattoirs ELFORA
operates, including the Debre Zeit
and Melge Wondo Abattoirs are all
export certified. With annual export
capacity of 6,000tns of goat meat
and mutton, and 4,000tns of beef,
ELFROA exports meat products to
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates,
Egypt and other African countries.
Its agro-processing units in
Kombolcha and Melge-Wondo
produce canned minced meat
sauce, beef in jelly, vegetable soup
and tomato paste.
The Metehara upgrading project,
which started in January 2010,
was undertaken to meet export
standards and the growing market.
Prior to the upgrading, the abattoir
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was restricted to night shifts
only because it did not have air
conditioning system. The cooling
system of its chillers was also
inefficient. Hence, it was running at
lower capacity facing risks of losing
export market.
Abdella Hussein Ali Al-Amoudi
Establishment, an affiliate Company
in Jeddah, ELFORA’s exclusive
representative and agent in the
Middle East, Africa and Asia, and
its subcontractor, Samara Trading
Establishment, both from Saudi
Arabia, were responsible for the
installation of insulating panels and
air conditioning equipment, while
a local contractor was responsible
for the asphalt work. ELFORA’s own
engineers and technical service staff
also handled many other activities,
enabling the upgrading to be
completed in time.
ELFORA’s poultry farming produces
50 million table eggs and 1,000tns
of broiler meat at present; both
projected to grow to 100 million and
10,000tns, respectively, following
upcoming modernization.
ELFORA also cultivates 6,200ha of
land growing maize, haricot bean,
mung bean, chick pea, grapes and
various vegetables in different parts
of Ethiopia.
Equatorial Business Group Plc. (EBG) issued on April 2012, its Corporate Code of Conduct (CCC) that established
16 behavioral standards for strict adherence. In his message of endorsement of the CCC document, the General
Manager of the Company, Ato Tadelle Teferra said “… the Code is the basis of the company’s operations on trusttrust
and we are committed to up-hold the highest ethical standards while receiving and delivering products and
services to and from clients.” He expressed his strongest convictions that all employees and management group
shall strictly comply to all provisions prescribed in the CCC in the course of the operations of the company.”
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