Cargill, a global food corporation, has made an investment to the tune of USD 15 million (about Rs 112 crore) to set up a plant in Maharashtra to manufacture health and nutrition supplement bypass fat for dairy cattle.
The company has opened a high-pressure hydrogenation plant in Kurkumbh to manufacture bypass fat. The commercial production of supplement has already started and will be marketed under the global brand Carfe.
The company has made an investment of USD 15 million to set up the plant. It has an annual capacity of 35,000 tonne, making it one of the largest facilities to manufacture bypass fats and speciality waxes in the country.
The product is already available in developed dairy cattle markets worldwide and will now be locally manufactured at Cargill's new bioindustrial plant at Kurkumbh and made available to dairy farmers and feed manufacturers in India.
The plant will also manufacture speciality vegetable oil-based waxes for industrial application, marketed under the brand Agri-Pure, which has applications in the tyre, plastic and candle industry. Around 80-90 percent of the volume in the plant will be bypass fat.
By building upon operations at this facility, the company will increase its regional footprint and enhance our local capabilities to better support the needs of local customers as well as multi-national customers across the globe.
In 2016, the company had set up a plant in Maharashtra at the same location to manufacture FR3 (natural ester dielectric fluid) which is used in transformers.