“This investment helps us to continue on our way to reduce CO2 and to be able to support not only our consumption in our own production processes, but also throughout the supply chain. What we want to achieve is to be carbon neutrals throughout the productive stage,” said Bichara.
With this factory, the company will create 120 direct and 150 indirect jobs. Their construction is planned to start towards the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023and will start operations at the end of 2024.
“According to the plan we have, within two years we would already have a product made in Meoqui to be sent to Mexico and the rest of the world,” said Eusebio Reynoso, director of Cervecería Meoqui.
the plant of Meoqui was inaugurated in 2018with an investment of $500 million and as part of the value chain integration, glass and malt supply companies are also located in this space.
In Mexico, 40% of beer is packaged in non-returnable bottles, 23.9% in returnable and 36.2% in cans, according to data from the National Chamber of the Beer and Malt Industry (Cerveceros de México).
With the eye in the water
This complex has a wastewater treatment plant, which is used for industrial uses, cleaning purposes of the facilities and irrigation of green spaces.
This plant uses 2.5 liters of water to produce a liter of beer, when the company’s goal is to use 1.9 liters. In the brewing industry, for every liter of beer, four liters of water are usually used.
The company reiterated its goals to achieve neutrality in the use of water and zero carbon emissions by 2030, which will require a transformation in the seven plants it has in Mexico.
Heineken complexes in the country are located in Monterrey, Guadalajara, Tecate and Toluca, Navojoa, Orizaba and Meoqui.