Lutosa invests 100 million euros in Leuze
Lutosa invests 100 million euros in Leuze
The giant McCain has just inaugurated a tool that is unique in the world on its Leuze-en-Hainaut site, the company Lutosa: a brand new production line capable of producing 25,000 kilos of fries an hour - a 100 million euro investment.
This is good news for Leuze and the region and confirms the desire of the McCain group, which bought the company Lutosa five years ago, to make its Walloon plant a global benchmark.
McCain has invested 185 million euros and hired 165 employees since it purchased this once family-run plant in 2013.
Good news for local agriculture: 80% of the potatoes used by the company come from Belgium.
This new production line, which produces twice as much as the others, will also allow McCain to increase production by 15 to 25% on its Lutosa site.
The new fry production unit in Leuze measures 8,000 square metres, the size of a football pitch.
A growing sector
With a turnover of more than €8,7 billion and 22,038 jobs, the food industry is one of the pillars of employment in the Walloon industrial sector.
