Star Foods invests 1.1m euros

Potato chips maker Star Foods E.M. SRL will upgrade its production capacity in Popesti-Leordeni by an 1.1 million-euro investment, with 30% of the money provided by the European Union through the SAPARD Fund. The rest of the investment will be covered by the company’s own funds. “The market surveys allowed us to conclude we should upgrade and retool the potato chips manufacturing capacity in order to boost the quality of the products offered to consumers and optimise the production system to improve efficiency,” Kostas Mitzalis, company administrator says. Star Foods will buy a productive line that can make up to 1,500 kilos of chips an hour, a water purifying installation and a high-precision spectrometer. “We will buy a state of the art system and a line to transport and distribute chips, which will considerably improve the packaging process,” Mitzalis says. ZF