Apceco, German firm sign deal

Fujairah-based Arab Poultry and Cattle Equipment Co (Apceco) yesterday signed a technical agreement worth Dh4.75 million ($1.3 million) with a German firm for know-how on equipment.

Mohammed Saeed Al Dhanhani, Apceco chairman, signed the contract with Joseph Meerpohl, chairman of Big Dutchman, Germany.

The pact allows Apceco to produce complete systems of poultry and cattle equipment at its premises in Al Hail area in Fujairah.

The company will invest Dh25.69 million to buy the machinery and other equipment needed to operate the factory, whose building and annexes cost around Dh22 million.

Apceco will be able to manufacture, market, transfer and install all kinds of cattle and poultry equipment to cover the requirements of the local and Arab markets.

The company is expected to account for 35 per cent of the total annual demand of poultry equipment, and 25 per cent of that for cattle equipment.

Apceco will be able to produce 49 houses for chicken parents per year, in addition to 113 houses for chicken broilers, one house for chicken layers and three houses for egg production.

It will also be able to carry out one project per year for producing equipment for 1,000 milking cows. The new factory and its annexes occupy 13,860 square metres, in addition to 1,141 square metres for the administration and management offices.