BUA Foods boosts pasta production with 400,000MTpa

BUA Foods Plc has expanded its pasta production facility after signing an agreement with FAVA (Italy), one of the world’s leading pasta equipment manufacturing companies.

The new project, which serves as one of several efforts aimed at mitigating food supply challenges in the country, will result in the addition of nine lines of long cut pasta (6,000 kgs/hr) thereby increasing the company’s annual production capacity by 400,000 tons to 900,000MTpa, making it one of the leading pasta producers in Africa.

To support the expansion project, a complimentary agreement was also signed with Martini (Italy) to supply packaging equipment.

This was preceded with a strategic agreement signed with Cukurova Silo (Turkiye), a global leader in silo solutions, to increase BUA Foods’ grain storage capacity by 100,000 tons.

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This investment in additional pasta lines, packaging and storage systems are part of the company’s goal to serve customers better, increase its manufacturing footprint and achieve its business objectives.

“Our manufacturing capacity expansion will continue to enable us to extend the boundaries of what we can produce and deliver, supporting our nation’s development by providing solutions to ongoing food shortages,” BUA Foods’ Chairman, Abdul Samad Rabiu, said in a statement.

“In addition to producing more pasta, we’ll be able to introduce new innovations to support mixed volume growth, while consistently delivering the unrivalled product quality our customers expect.”