Nutrisens (former Vegenat Healthcare) has opened this Monday, its new facilities on the Badajoz logistics platform, a new production plant dedicated to the Clinical nutrition of about 8,000 square meters, on a plot of more than 16,000 meters, after an investment of some 20 million euros and where they have 75 workers, with the intention is to continue expanding personnel in the coming years.
For Nutrisens, it is “an important qualitative leap” since this new investment will allow them triple your production capacity “Preparing the future” and with the company’s intention or objective to double billing volumes in the next five years. In this way, this new plant and this new investment will allow them to face that future “with security and flexibility” to be able to serve their customers.
The new plant has been operational for the last two months and is in the starting phase, which from the company calculates that it will last until the end of the year, since “still” have to make some machinery moving from the old facilities to the new one. It also incorporates development and research facilities and is dedicated to the Product production under legislation (Feeding of special medical uses).
Specifically, they produce liquid diets Oriented for different pathologies in Badajoz that, with this investment, becomes one of the group’s industrial poles, with the aim of providing for products to the national and international market. Meanwhile and on the old facilities in Pueblonuevo del Guadiana the company, Vegenat, will continue to develop its activity “normally”, focused on the agri -food world.
This has detailed in statements to the media the international vice president of the Nutrisens Group, Cayetano López; who has participated in this opening ceremony accompanied by the Vice President of Operations of the Group, Marc Urbain, in addition to regional, provincial and local authorities, such as the president of the Assembly of Extremadura, Blanca Martín; the Minister of Economy, Employment and Digital Transformation, Guillermo Santamaría; or the mayor of Badajoz, Ignacio Gragera.
The Government delegate in Extremadura, José Luis Quintana; the president of the Diputación de Badajoz, Raquel del Puerto; the former former president Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra; or the mayor of Pueblonuevo del Guadiana, Pedro Pablo González; inter alia.
Innovation and efficiency
During the opening ceremony, Cayetano López has detailed that on Monday they inaugurate this new clinical nutrition plant in Badajoz, a project that represents “much more” than a new production center, with an investment of 20 million euros and that they It allows tripling the current production capacityincorporate new manufacturing techniques and reinforce its quality standards, in a “commitment determined by innovation, efficiency and reliability in such a sensitive sector.”
“Behind this plant, there is also a business history with deep roots in this land. Seven years ago this installation began to take shape in the imagination of a family, the López Serrano family, founder of the Vegenat company,” has remarked, along with that “today, as part of the Nutrisens group, that initial impulse translates into a project with a project with a European dimension And with a vocation for the future “, with a plant that reinforces its industrial position in Europe and gives them a” more robust and flexible “productive structure from Badajoz.
Then, Marc Urbain explained that this project is a “success” of almost two and a half years, 20 months “very hard to work from nothing” to the current facilities that suppose a “leap forward” to the future to ensure Nutrisens the next thirty years of business, success and products sold to all markets and, above all, those who need them.
Added value
In turn, Ignacio Gragera has accent that it is from Badajoz and its neighbors who have to thank them for the bet and investment in the city and “especially” for generating a business project from the same, but with national and international vocation. “Doing it from here, which is sometimes not easy, has a special merit and above all demonstrates a special commitment,” he continued, to highlight the personal and special “effort” they have had in that this Nazca Nutrisens project and generates added value for the whole group “from here“.
For his part, Guillermo Santamaría has stood out from these new Nutrisens facilities in Badajoz that mark “a milestone” in the commitment to innovation, sustainability and economic development of Extremadura, as well as the commitment of Nutrisens and his subsidiary Vegenat with the region, given that despite being part of an international group, the decision to maintain and expand its operations in the same ” local talent and the potential of the community “.
From the Board of Extremadura the project has been accompanied in all its phases, from the processing of incentives to the training of employees, underlining the importance of public-private collaboration to boost business fabric. In addition to its economic impact, the new plant will generate quality employment, has detailed, and will strengthen a collaboration network that includes farmers, transporters, suppliers, universities and research centers.
Finally, Blanca Martín has highlighted the Business effort that opted for the region since its inception and that there are three words, ambition, trajectory and family, define this business project specialized in the design, development, production, marketing and distribution of clinical and dietary nutrition products; After what he recalled the ambition of the Extremadura López Serrano family when from Pueblonuevo they bet in 1982 for an initiative that, going from agricultural to the industrial, allowed to manufacture products that made life easier.
In this regard, he said that the foods of Clinical and Dietetics Nutrition That this business group produces, where the company Extremadura Vegenathc was incorporated, they are known in the homes of Extremadura families and many parts of the world because they are prescribed for patients with various pathologies; As he also wanted to recognize the work of pioneer entrepreneurs such as María Dolores Serrano, who in the early 80s was one of the few women who opened the road in the business field at the head of Sofiex or the implementation of Vegenat.
On this new Nutrisens plant, José Luis Quintana has also spoken, who has valued in subsequent statements that are a “very important” day with the inauguration of the facilities of a company whose origin dates back to 40 years ago from a family initiative that today has one “clear international vocation“; as well as that it has had the institutional support of the Government of Spain through the regional incentive line.
