Brazil: Paraná will have the largest soybean grinding factory in the country

Princess Astrid of Belgium signed a cooperation agreement in Brasília at the end of November to use Belgian technology in the largest soybean milling plant in Brazil, which is being built in Lapa, in the metropolitan region of Curitiba. With the capacity to process 3,500 tons of grain per day, the project is a partnership between the Belgian company Desmet Brasil and Grupo Potencial, which is from Paraná and is consolidating itself as one of the largest business groups in the country, distributing, producing and transporting biodiesel and fuel. Two silos will be built to store soybeans, with a capacity of 150 thousand tons each, and another, ...