MEAT PRODUCTION
Location area: Shturm settlement of Krasnogvardeysky District, Stavropol Krai;
Current production is 430,000 finished pigs per year at 117kg/pig liveweigh;
Stage 1 of the project started in 2006, producing 80,000 fattening pigs from 4,000 sows. Stage 2 added in 2012, 270,000 fattening pigs and 13,500 sows per year;
Genetics for the group are supplied by PIC, the world’s leading producer of swine genetics;
All the facilities are purpose built and use equipment by GSI/AP (USA), Big Dutchman (Germany).
MEAT-SLAUGHTER AND PROCESSING
The plant is in Shturm village, Stavropol Krai and has a base design slaughter capacity of 180 pigs per hour. The plant uses the latest equipment from companies such as MPZ, Zanotti and Harslev to produce currently up to 45,000 MT of meat products per year. The design gives us the possibility to double the production output for relatively low cost;
Currently the meat plant produces the following products: half- Carcasses, vacuum packed industrial (large and small) pieces and by-products;
In the future: the production of deep-processed meat products with higher added value including ready-to-eat food under the company’s trademark.
MIXED FEED PRODUCTION
The Group produces all its own feed from a feed mill built in 2006, located at one of the groups elevators in Krasnogvardeysky District Stavropol Krai;
Output: 25 MT per hour;
Modern equipment: Bühler AG (Switzerland), Yahav Hamias Technology Ltd. (Israel).
LOGISTICS
The Group owns and operates warehouse complexes in the Moscow Region, Stavropol Krai and the city of Surgut.
Moscow Region (Reutov town): Dry and temperature controlled warehouses. Total area: 15,000 sq.m.
Moscow Region (Lukhovitsy area):
Temperature controlled warehouses with a total capacity of 1,500 MT of vegetables;
Seed storage warehouse with capacity of 1,500 MT;
Warehouses for long-term potato storage with total capacity of up to 9,000 MT;
Sorting, grading and packaging lines for potatoes, onions and beets with capacity of up to 6 MT per hour are available;
Total area: 11,000 sq.m.
Stavropol Krai (Pregradnoye village):
Fully automated temperature controlled vegetable storage with a capacity of 20,000 MT now and up to 56,000 MT in the future;
Packing lines for vegetables with capacity of 20 MT per hour, as well as washing, polishing and sorting facilities, capable of using multiple packaging types and sizes.
City of Surgut (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area):
B category versatile warehouse, warm storage warehouses, low temperature cold storage chambers;
Total area: 23,000 sq.m.
CROPS
Total area of cultivated lands in Krasnodar and Stavropol areas is 100,000 ha;
The main cultivated crops are wheat, barley, sunflower, rape, corn, pea and sugar beet producing an annual volume of more than 400,000 MT. The group consistently delivers to the highest standards of crop performance in all of its production areas, and retains highly qualified agronomists of international standard using the latest technologies.The group uses more than 700 units of machinery and equipment from the world’s leading manufacturers such as John Deere.The group has large storage capacity grain elevators of 400,000 MT. The elevators provide services including acceptance, cleaning, drying, shipment of grain crops and oilseeds by railway and truck.
CROP STORAGE & HANDLING
OJSC Novoalexandrovsky elevator is located close to the Groups lands in Stavropol Krai and has storage capacity of up to 146,000 MT of grains & oilseeds. The elevator can accept and ship up to 6,000 MT of agricultural products per day. Since 2005, Novoalexandrovsky elevator has been storing grain for the Federal Intervention Fund.
OJSC Elevator s. Krasnogvardeyskoye is located in further north in Stavropol Krai and has storage capacity of up to 65,000 MT of grains & oilseeds. The elevator can accept and ship up to 6,000 MT of agricultural products per day. Since 2010, Krasnogvardeysky elevator has been storing grain for the Federal Intervention Fund.
Both elevators provide services to the Groups farms and external customers including acceptance, сleaning, drying, shipment of grain crops and oilseeds by railway and truck.
VEGETABLES
The farm is located in Pregradnoye village, Krasnogvardeysky District of Stavropol Krai with an irrigated land area is 2,100 ha now and 3,000 in the future.The farm uses a TL automated irrigation system with centre pivot irrigators with a radius of 474 m, irrigating 70.1 ha per pivot.Water is pumped from the local canal using centralised pump stations;
The vegetable crops are potatoes, onions, carrots and corn and sugar beet as rotational crops;
Harvesters: Grimme, Samon;
The vegetables are kept at our own vegetable storage facility having automatic temperature control system and capacity of 24,000 MT now and up to 56,000 MT in the future. The vegetable storage facility provides sorting, washing and packaging facilities, as well as seed storage.
DISTRIBUTION
Distribution channels: The Group supplies various retail chains (Auchan, Lenta, Magnit, O’KEY, X5-Retail Group), wholesale companies, meat processing plants and HORECA.
Retail trade:The Group sells vegetables and meat under its own registered trademark SEMIDAL.
Sales geography of branded products: The company supplies into the Central Federal District, the Southern Federal District, and the North Caucasian Federal District.