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Some of
the Leading Investments in the Food Processing industry in the
state:
•Leading companies like Dabur, Frito-Lay, Venkateshwara
Hatcheries & Nestle have initiated projects in the food
processing sector in the state or have started marketing
products manufactured in the state.
•Frito-Lay
India has set up a unit for manufacturing potato chips with
projected investment of around Rs.70 crores at Sankrail Food
Park, Howrah. The unit will start the manufacturing process from
November 2004.
• Potato
King Pvt. Ltd. has a world class plant at Howrah for production
of potato powder. Machinery was imported from Florigo, Holland
and the USA. The total production of the plant is fully
automatic and the finished goods are untouched by hand. The
company has cold storage facilities near the plant in order to
supply raw materials at desired and regulated temperatures when
there is no availability of fresh, raw potatoes. The company is
currently going for further expansion and setting up another
unit.
•Dabur Pvt.
Ltd. has set up a fruit processing plant at Siliguri at an
estimated cost of Rs.20 crore. The unit was inaugurated on 16th
of August, 2004 by Hon’ble Chief Minister of State, Shri
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.
• Saj
Industries Pvt. Ltd. (Bisk Farm), already a leading player in
biscuit manufacturing, is going for manufacturing Maggi Noodles
for ‘Nestle’ in their Uluberia factory.
• LMJ
Group (Golden Trading Star Export House) has started exporting
Golden Grain of Rice, Tea, Coffee, Wheat, Sugar, Spices, Beans
and Pulses under the brand name of ‘Prime’.
• Bengal
Nestor having a milk processing unit in the state has started
producing ‘Dahi’ (Curd) under the brand name of ‘Nestle’.
• Sukhjit
Starch Industries (Unit of The Sukhjit Starch & Chemicals Ltd.)
has invested Rs.14 Crores for manufacturing Maize Starch, Liquid
Glucose & its derivatives at Narayanpur Industrial Estate,
Maldah, West Bengal.
• M/S
Pataka Food Products Pvt. Ltd. is going to set up a modern Fruit
and Vegetable processing unit at Jangipur, Murshidabad. The
company has already purchased about 50 acres of land and civil
construction work is about to commence.
• M/S
Keventor Biotech Pvt. Ltd. signed an MOU with the Dept. of Food
Processing Industries & Horticulture for setting up a unit for
exporting fresh and frozen green vegetables. The unit has
already come up near Barasat.
• M/S
Elque & Co. had also signed an MOU with the Dept. of Food
Processing Industries & Horticulture for exporting frozen
vegetables. They have set up their unit at North 24-Parganas
with an investment of around Rs.5 crores.
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