From February 1st, Orquídea Alimentos will be responsible for managing a mill in the neighborhood of Jaguaré, in the west of São Paulo. With this new operation, which has already started the transition process, the company will be able to increase its wheat grinding capacity by 22%, going from the current 36 thousand tons per month to 44 thousand tons per month.
The incorporation of the mill, which belongs to a family with more than 70 years of history in the sector, aims to expand and strengthen the company’s operations in the southeastern flour market. Through this operation, Orquídea Alimentos will also manage the Mirella flour brand, increasing the number of brands in its portfolio to nine. The transaction was advised by Trust & Co Investimentos, a reference in mergers and acquisitions.
This is Orquídea’s second operation in the state of São Paulo. The other, located in the municipality of Santana de Parnaíba, is the company’s first factory outside of Rio Grande do Sul and is expected to begin testing activities in the second half of January. This location will be responsible for the production of Sabor de France products, a brand managed by Orquídea that rescues European artisanal baking.
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Founded in August 1953 by the Tondo brothers, in the city of Pinto Bandeira, in Rio Grande do Sul, the food company Orquídea started with a small wheat mill. Today, it is among the largest companies in the southern region of Brazil, having one of the largest wheat milling capacities: 36 thousand tons per month.
At the end of the 1990s, construction began on the factory in Caxias do Sul, also in the mountains of Rio Grande do Sul, where he built a modern industry equipped with automatic machines for the production of traditional and special flours, such as those used for pastries, pizzas and confectionery. , as well as mixes for bread and cakes. The factory was expanded in 2006, adding pasta of the most varied cuts to the portfolio; six years later, in 2012, he entered the biscuit manufacturing business.
