Food & Ingredients June 2023

The construction of the new warehouse
facility, which will provide an additional
storage area of 6150 m2 with a rack system
with a capacity of 22 thousand pallets, which
is planned to be completed in four months,
started with the groundbreaking ceremony
where Euro Gıda Chairman of the Board
Haluk Önen, Advisory Board Members Renkin
Akbulak, Pınar Ilgaz, Ahmet Süha Erol and
General Manager Bahadır Açık pressed the
button to pour the first foundation mortar.
At the groundbreaking ceremony, it was also
announced that the Solar Energy System was
commissioned. Thanks to the 5,267 solar panels
placed on the roof, it is planned that the
electrical energy to be used in the production
of pickles and canned vegetables, whose
production season is summer, will be obtained
from clean energy to a large extent.
Speaking at the ceremony, Haluk Önen,
Chairman of the Board of Directors, said,
“As Euro Gıda, we are growing by adding
new successes every year. We are proud
of contributing to the export of our country
and the development of our region. The
jar capacity, which was 50 million when
our factory was put into operation in 2013,
has increased to 120 million jars today. We
continue our investments within the framework
of our needs. Thanks to our warehouse
facility, which we laid the foundations of
together today, we will effectively use all our
production lines at full capacity and provide
better service to our customers.”
Speaking on his part at the ceremony, Bahadır
Açık, General Manager of Euro Gıda, said:
“With our respect to the nature and future
generations, we started the investment for
the SPP, we completed the assembly and
installation of the panels. In the new season,
we will produce our products with the
electricity we obtain from solar energy. Thanks
to the SPP we have commissioned, we will
prevent approximately 2,500 tons of carbon
emissions per year. The Aegean region has
rich resources in every respect, and the sun
is one of them. As we turn the cucumbers
and vegetables grown in the fields under the
Aegean sun into healthy products, we will now
derive our energy from the sun.”
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