Romania: Doly-Com Distribution invested over 28 million euros in modernization
Doly-Com Distribution, one of the main meat processors in Romania increased its meat production by 25% last year compared to 2023, up to 100 tons per day, and put into operation a new factory, with modern lines for pork half-carcasses, portioning and packaging pork, beef, sheep products, and producing boiled-smoked specialties.
Iulian Cazacut, Strategy-Development Manager of Doly-Com Distribution: "During the period 2021 – 2023, we implemented a project to expand and modernize the Doly-Com Distribution meat factory, worth 28 million euros. Since last year, our activity has been carried out in the new factory, and this involved investments in a new pork line with a capacity of 400 half-carcasses per hour. At the same time, we have invested in 11 portioning and packaging lines for beef, pork and mutton products, semi-finished products, hamburgers, minced meat, several types of sausages and 3 production lines for cooked-smoked products. These are smoked specialties, smoked sausages and several types of salami. Smoked specialties are obtained from the best quality meat, carefully selected and seasoned, ennobled through a special smoking process that gives it a distinct taste and aroma.
Also in 2024, we started the construction of a new cold storage facility with a capacity of 1,500 tons. The new facility will become operational this year, it will be fully automated, with two in-out lines that will automatically transport pallets to the warehouse and provide autonomous logistics. The year 2024 was a productive one in which we completed started investments and made new ones, thus increasing production by 25% compared to 2023".
In 2024, the business was completed with a gas station with a restaurant at the entrance to the factory in Roma commune, Botosani county, and its first own store. In the DCD gas station restaurant you will find on the menu fresh sandwiches, leberkase, bockwurst, mici (cevapcici), hamburgers and rotisserie pork knuckle. All the dishes are cooked in the restaurant's kitchen with products from the factory.
The store is the business card of Doly-Com Distribution, offering easy access to customers and being a symbol of the local products quality. The store's offer includes most of the products from the Chef de gatit, Chef de Grill, Kravys, Carpathian Beef and DCD Gourmet ranges. Over 150 varieties of fresh pork, sheep and beef are available, traditional dishes: mici, sausages, chops, meat for burgers and other modern recipes, specialties and boiled-smoked meat dishes.
"New projects are coming up aimed at expanding freezing capacity, product portfolio and continuing investments in the sustainability area", concludes Iulian Cazacut.
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